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‘Yemen Was Called the Forgotten War, but Activists Are Refusing to Forget’
"We are providing logistical support and intel-sharing for their aerial campaign; we're doing spare-part transfers, making sure that all those F-15s that are dropping bombs on civilian targets in Yemen are up to speed."
‘Under the Trump Administration, the [NLRB] Appointees Have Been Extremists’
"Employers are willing to go to great lengths—'great lengths' is an understatement—to avoid having to have their employees covered by our labor and employment laws."
‘I Don’t Think We Can Possibly Fight Them if We Don’t Understand the History’
"Media have been slow to recognize the degree to which the Tea Party represents perhaps the furthest right of the Republican Party."
Hassan El-Tayyab on US Out of Yemen, Kate Bronfenbrenner on Labor Board vs. Labor
US media bring images of Yemen's suffering, but you could think it was happening on Mars, if the dots are not connected between the bombs and the hunger and the cholera, and elected US congressmembers voting again and again to be part of it.
‘You Can’t Know This Country’s Story Without Learning How Indian Country Fits In’
Election Focus 2020: "No matter what happens, all of the candidates came away with a new appreciation of the complexity and the depth of some of the issues involving American Indians and Alaska Natives."
Film Official Secrets Is Tip of Mammoth Iceberg
Katharine Gun's revelations showed before the invasion that people on the inside, whose livelihood depends on following the party line, were willing to risk jail time to expose the lies and threats.
Mark Trahant on Indigenous and the Election; Tea Party Revisionism
Election Focus 2020: The historic Native American Presidential Forum was ultimately less about the candidates than about the 5 million Natives across the country, and the possibility of their seeing government as representing rather than oppressing them.
Protectors of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science
At the heart of the Mauna Kea action is a challenge not only to a telescope, but to capital and the pursuit of unmitigated industrial growth at any cost. It’s no wonder, then, that when corporate-owned media are tasked with examining this movement,
‘It’s an Attempt to Impose a White Nationalist Vision of What America Is’
"It gives tremendous discretion to people, basically, to discriminate, to discriminate knowing the government now has your back."
WaPo Complicit in Corruption of DC Council’s Corporate ‘Concierge’
Evidence of DC Councilmember Jack Evans' corruption has abounded for many years--just not in the pages of the influential Washington Post, which has long protected the powerful local politician.