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Iraq: “Diplomatic Solutions” and Brute Violence
On June 15th, the NYT lead story on Iraq began this way: As President Obama weighs airstrikes against marauding militants in Iraq, he has concluded that any American military action must be conditioned...
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Gaza: Dueling Responses to Grave Crimes
Grave crimes and injustices produce two kinds of responses from those victimized by those crimes. On the one hand, it sensitizes people to oppression and makes many of them more likely to oppose...
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What Is to Be Done About ISIS?
If we want to do something about ISIS, then we need to ask ourselves what is causing ISIS in the first place? Otherwise we’re acting out of fear and ignorance; never a recipe for good results. If you...
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From San Quentin to Guantanamo: The New Carceral State
This is a transcript of Dennis Loo’s prepared remarks at a Cal Poly Pomona Symposium on Stop Mass Incarceration, Police Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation on the evening of October 21,...
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Do Fetuses Have More Rights Than Women?
The following excerpt is from a NYT Op-Ed entitled “Pregnant, and No Civil Rights” by Lynn Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin, published on November 7, 2014. The examples they cite, of which these are just a...
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Assume, Arguendo, That Officer Darren Wilson’s Story is True…
If we take Officer Darren Wilson’s grand jury testimony and treat it as 100% true and that he really was so frightened and intimidated by unarmed 18 year-old Michael Brown that he just had to shoot him...
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John Yoo Meets Torture and at Long Last Recognizes It?
John Yoo, principal author of the Office of Legal Counsel’s “Torture Memos” that gave the green light to the CIA and other governmental agencies to carry out torture under Bush, has this week...
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Is the Administration Pressuring US Intel to Downplay ISIS’s Strength?
In what has to be a completely unprecedented turn of events, Congressional Republicans are complaining that intelligence assessments of Islamic State’s strength are being downplayed by the Obama...
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How Do You Stop Terrorism?
After Paris and now San Bernardino, the world wants to know: how do you stop this cycle of violence? It’s a legitimate question. But it’s like walking into a movie 45 minutes after it started and...
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Donald Trump and the Historic American Social Compact
Donald Trump’s surprising rise and popularity and the equally surprising durability of Bernie Sanders, an openly “socialist” candidate for a major party nomination, are both opposite responses to the...
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