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El borrado de la vida ind'gena mexicana por el narcotr'fico
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (141+ words) Tamara Pearson is the Global Voices editor for Truthdig. An Australian-Mexican journalist, author and activist, she writes about Latin American resistance, global inequality and imperialism, migration, the environment and more. She has also worked as an international news and analysis…...
Did the Democrats Ratf*ck Graham Platner?
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (875+ words) Strip away the moralizing and the sequence is obvious: an inconvenient insurgent, internal material weaponized by his own side, a Republican-linked source, and a calendar tuned to a removal-and-replace statute. The post Did the Democrats Ratf*ck Graham Platner? appeared…...
'Minotaur' Review: The Oligarch's Wife
1+ week, 6+ day ago (429+ words) Andrey Zvyagintsev's Grand Prix-winner is an erotic thriller set against the early days of the Russia-Ukraine war. The post The Oligarch's Wife appeared first on Truthdig....
Springtime for Bezos
2+ week, 4+ day ago (479+ words) Jeb Lund is a former political reporter and columnist for Rolling Stone, The Guardian and Gawker, and a contributor to Esquire, GQ, The New Republic, Vice and The Washington Post, amongst others. He currently produces and co-hosts the Hallmark movies…...
World War Trump
2+ week, 5+ day ago (462+ words) It's got no anything," President Donald Trump'said of Somalia'in a recent xenophobic rant. All they do is run around shooting each other." As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. The next month,…...
The Passage of the Palm Groves: The Strait of Hormuz in Iranian History
2+ week, 5+ day ago (684+ words) The strategic and spiritual resonance of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply woven into Iran's identity. It represents a profound geographic constant in Iranian history. This narrow waterway has served as a central artery for Persian political and economic power,…...
Automatic Draft Registration Undoes a Victory Decades in the Making
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1156+ words) Young people in the U. S. have won a major unsung victory: Starting in December, they will no longer be required to register or report their addresses for a possible military draft. But Congress has given the agency tasked with "readiness" for…...
In Venezuela, the US-Led Economic Boom Is Nowhere To Be Found
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1266+ words) People are really happy. They are dancing in the streets because there is a lot of money coming in through the big oil companies," U. S. president Donald Trump said a few days later. His administration is still managing a political transition…...
Sin alivio econ'mico en Venezuela tras el secuestro del petr'leo por parte de EE. UU.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (864+ words) Rafael Venegas, Jacques Derose e Yrma Rivero tienen edades y niveles de formaci'n distintos; uno es trabajador p'blico, otro privado y ella independiente, pero los tres tienen algo en com'n: sus ingresos no son suficientes. La misma din'mica reina en…...
Que reste-t-il du proc's des viols de Mazan?
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1336+ words) PARIS " En t'te du cort'ge du 8 mars, " Paris, pour la Journ'e internationale de lutte pour les droits des femmes, Gis'le Pelicot avance lentement sur l'avenue, aux c't's de sa fille, Caroline Darian. Autour d'elles, des milliers de manifestantes d'filent, pancartes…...