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Dear #WeAreTheLeft, You Are Not The Left
The Rot of Liberal White Supremacy. By Jeff Kunzler.
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Trump for dummies
When Republicans express outrage at Donald Trump's racism, they are being disingenuous or self-deluded.
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Frugality Isn’t What It Used to Be
What use is there today for one of the oldest virtues? By Joe Pinsker.
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Compare the coverage of Mosul and East Aleppo and it reveals a lot
In both countries, two large Sunni Arab urban centres – East Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq – are being besieged by pro-government forces strongly supported by foreign airpower. Yet the coverage is very different. By Patrick Cockburn.
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Inside the OPM Hack, the Cyberattack That Shocked the US Government
On April 15, 2015, a network engineer noticed a strange signal emanating from the US Office of Personnel Management. That was just the tip of the iceberg. By Brendan I. Koerner.
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Asymmetric Warfare: The Fight Against Conservative Smear Campaigns
The right wing has attacked Hillary with the equivalent of “Chinese water torture” using the slow drip of unsubstantiated innuendo to drive sane people mad. Let’s together dive into this deep and troubled ocean of conservative misrepresentation, fable and fabrication to see how it all works. This is our burden when we find ourselves in a war fought so disproportionately on one side.
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When Truth Falls Apart
How do we restore consensus in an age so divorced from fact? By Maria Bustillos.
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Ban the burqa? Scrap the sari? Why women’s clothing matters
British missionaries hated the sari; US feminists would ban the burqa. Why do empires care so much about women’s clothes? By Rafia Zakaria.
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Why Fahrenheit 451 is supremely relevant to the times we live in
The main themes and messages of Fahrenheit 451 — seen through the lens of author Ray Bradbury’s preferred interpretation. By Gautham Shenoy.
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Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It
I’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be a heavy social media user, but that is not the case. I’ve never had a social media account. By Cal Newport.
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Peace Shall Destroy Many
‘It creates deep-seated wells of rage that find no release.’ Miriam Toews on how pacifism can lead to violence.
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Religious Liberty is Only for Christians in Texas
Texas Republicans talk a lot about religious freedom, meanwhile GOP leaders impose their own beliefs about abortion and LGBT rights on everybody else. By David R. Brockman. (Nov. 1, 2016)
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Spare Us the Theatrics
Trump’s Fortress America is rooted in the Obama years. By Justin Raimondo.
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Trump Lets Saudis Off His ‘Muslim Ban’
By leaving Saudi Arabia and other key terrorism sponsors off his “Muslim ban,” President Trump shows the same cowardice and dishonesty that infected the Bush and Obama administrations, writes Robert Parry.
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Why are Republicans so cruel to the poor? Paul Ryan’s profound hypocrisy stands for a deeper problem
Paul Ryan has dreamed of slashing Medicaid since his keg-party days — and that blithe hostility is widespread. B Chauncey DeVega.
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Why You’re Biased About Being Biased
In a classic experiment in 1953, students spent an hour doing repetitive, monotonous tasks, such as rotating square pegs a quarter turn, again and again. Then the experimenters asked the students to persuade someone else that this mind-numbing experience was in fact interesting… By Jim Davies
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Brazil promises backing for beleaguered indigenous people
Brazil’s government brushed off criticism Wednesday that it is failing to protect vulnerable indigenous tribes in the wake of a bloody attack that left 13 people wounded.
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Requiem for a Lightweight
Markos Moulitsas was once the face of American progressivism. That shouldn’t happen again. By Dan O’Sullivan.
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New Hampshire Lawmaker Who Founded Misogynistic ‘Red Pill’ Reddit Forum Resigns
Representative Robert Fisher resigned just after a House committee voted not to punish him for his misogynistic online comments. By Claire Landsbaum.
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Trump’s extravagant trip to Saudi Arabia is a desperately-needed distraction from his crisis at home
President Trump arrives in Saudi Arabia tomorrow, mere hours after US bombers attacked pro-Assad militiamen whom the US military say were threatening a base in southern Syria where US and British Special Forces are training rebel fighters. By Patrick Cockburn. (May 19, 2017)
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