How Will Brussels Attacks Influence the US Election?
The Daesh-led terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium have caused worldwide panic, with 34 deaths and 330 injuries according to the latest updates from the BBC. Since the November 2015 attacks in Paris, Public Radio International reports…
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Labour Focus: Qatar and Modern Slavery
Slavery does in fact still exist today in our modern world (as I wrote in a blog post a few weeks ago). It is not something to be relegated to an ancient colonial past. There are still as many 20-36 million people (worldwide numbers on…
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Tech and Technicalities: Apple’s Fight Against the FBI
In mid-February, a federal judge ordered Apple to work with the FBI on technical assistance in the recovery of the San Bernardino gunmen’s iPhone. Since then, many have argued whether the FBI’s requests are technologically and legally…
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The Democratic Establishment: Casually Republican
Front and center in American politics recently has been the rightward shift of the Republican Party and a subsequent combustion of party solidarity, as many rank and file conservatives line up behind Donald Trump, despite an effort by the…
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Westlands Water District: The Blight of the Delta
Some time ago in the delicate youth of this blog, I wrote an article about “astroturfing”, the process by which big corporations use phony activist organizations to secretly promote their interests. In it I gave as an example California’s…
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Republicanism and Islam in the Banlieues
The Paris attacks this fall brought to the fore the threat of European citizens recruited by ISIS returning to their European homes and committing violent acts. While increased security measures across Europe are certainly important to…
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Update on Palestinian Teachers’ Strike
Here is another pleasant surprise and update on one of the articles I recently wrote about an over-one month long teacher's strike that was until recently taking place in the West Bank. Last week, the PLO appointed new leading members to…
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RNC HQ: All Hands On Deck
After the fallout from Marco Rubio ending his campaign, the Republican National Committee and Reince Priebus have been revving up their efforts to block Donald Trump from becoming the GOP nominee. From the beginning of his campaign, the RNC…
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Fora Dilma: A People’s Quest to End Corruption
In Rio de Janeiro, where music and dancing are continuous, a different kind of party took place on the streets of Copacabana Beach on Sunday, March 13, 2016. Music and dancing may have been present, but chants, anti-government speech and…
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Boeing, Blackwater, and the Military Contractors in Congress
Not many people would be surprised by Defense spending statistics. Like the idea of the “one percent”, the black hole that is the Department of Defense (DoD) has become another seemingly inevitable fact of life to most Americans; an…
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