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No End in Sight for US-Backed Yemen War as Airstrike Kills At Least 20, Including Bride, at Wedding; As Cuba Gains a New President, Raúl Castro Steps Back, Not Down, from Power; The Untold Story of How Fidel Castro’s Love Affair with ABC Journalist Altered U.S.-Cuban Relations; Activists Demand Release of Manuel Duran, Prominent Latino … Continued
How Black Students Helped Lead the 1968 Columbia U. Strike Against Militarism & Racism 50 Years Ago.
Dilma Rousseff: Lula’s Imprisonment Is Part of a Coup Corroding Brazil’s Democratic Institutions; Dilma Rousseff: The Rise of Brazil’s Far Right Threatens Democratic Gains Since End of Dictatorship; Earth Day 2018: Ending Plastic Pollution in the Oceans, Land & Our Bodies.
Rashid Khalidi: The Israeli Security Establishment is Terrified of a Nonviolent Palestinian Movement; Moazzam Begg on Syria: A No-Fly Zone Is Needed Around Idlib to Prevent “Unprecedented” Massacre; Rashid Khalidi: Ending the Proxy Wars in Syria is Key to De-escalating Deadly Conflict; Former Gitmo Prisoner Moazzam Begg Explains How Torture & U.S.-Run Prisons Helped Give … Continued
Unlimited Worldwide War: ACLU Warns Senate Against Giving Trump Blank Check to Declare War; America’s #1 Weapons Salesman: Trump Promotes U.S. Arms Manufacturers & Weakens Export Rules; #FreeSiwatu: Pregnant Black Detroit Activist Jailed for Standing Her Ground & Protecting Her Family.
Trump’s Legal Worries Grow as Judge Rejects Effort for President to Review Docs Seized in FBI Raid; Deadliest U.S. Prison Riot in 25 Years Shines Light on Inhumane Conditions in Prisons Across Nation; Hip-Hop Artist Kendrick Lamar Makes History by Winning Pulitzer Prize.
Syrian-American Activist: Limited U.S. Airstrikes Send Signal to Assad He Can Continue Mass Killing; Chelsea Manning on Trump’s Mission Accomplished Tweet: “I Believe I Have Heard Those Words Before”; Saheed Vassell’s Parents Call for Police to Release Every Video Leading Up to Their Son’s Death; Gaza: Palestinians Continue “Great March of Return” Protests for Third … Continued
Syrian Researcher: Focus on Alleged Chemical Attack Ignores War’s Ongoing Deaths by Airstrikes, Bullets; As Trump Reconsiders TPP Stance, Fair Trade Advocates Say Real Fight Is over NAFTA Renegotiation; Nearly 4 People Are Evicted Every Minute: New Project Tracks U.S. Eviction Epidemic & Effects.
Will Senate Dems Block Confirmation of Climate-Denying, Torture-Backing State Dept Pick Mike Pompeo? Political Scientist Corey Robin: Paul Ryan Is Retiring After Failing to Fulfill Right-Wing Agenda; Corey Robin: Striking Teachers Are “Real Resistance” to “Incoherent” Republicans and “Gutted” Dems.
“Facebook Doesn’t Sell Your Data. It Sells You”: Zeynep Tufekci on How Company’s Profit Really Works; How Facebook Played “Instrumental” Role in Rise of Burma’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign of Rohingya; ACLU: Facebook Has to Do Much More to Stop Housing & Job Discrimination on Platform; Amid Privacy Scandal, Is Facebook Profiting off Data from Children … Continued
