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Issue: 913

June 2, 2022

Guest Commentary

Global Elites in Davos Pretend To Care About Inequality

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

If market capitalism has reorganized wealth so that it flows from the bottom half of humanity into the hands of increasingly richer individuals, there is either a critical design flaw in a system that was supposed to be fair, or the system is working precisely as it was designed to work.

Billionaires and the politicians who enable their wealth gathered for several days at a luxury resort in Switzerland to offer their puzzled concerns about why they…

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Guest Commentary

Is America on the Verge of the Second Revolutionary War?

By Ted Vaill Guest Commentator

The enemy is not the British but Putin-admirer Trump and his MAGA supporters who have brought America to its current stage of great civic unrest, many of whom are greedy, racist Americans who care only for how much money they can make at the expense of other American citizens and those throughout the world who support us.

Regarding the 2008 District of Columbia v Heller case, which supporters believe gives them an unlimited right to bear any arms they want, the 5-4 decision…

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Guest Commentary

Hundreds Protest, Block Entrances to North America’s Largest Weapons Fair

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

We’re disrupting CANSEC in solidarity with the millions of people around the world who are being killed, who are suffering, who are being displaced as a result of the weapons sold and military deals made by the people and corporations inside this convention.

Additional photos and video are available to download here. OTTAWA — Hundreds of people have blocked access to the opening of CANSEC, North America’s largest weapons…

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Guest Commentary

Memorial Day 1955 — And Today

By WJ Astore, Bracing Views Guest Commentator

I find it remarkable that talk of peace in America has almost completely disappeared from our public discourse.

How far we’ve come as a country. Consider the following proclamation by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for Memorial Day in 1955: “Whereas Memorial Day each year…

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Pride Month

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Pride Month

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Color of Law

Tech Companies Bear Some Responsibility for the Buffalo Shooting

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The Buffalo massacre has once again placed freedom of speech and tech industry accountability in the spotlight.

The Buffalo, N.Y, shooter used tech platforms to plan his mass murder of 10 Black people in a Tops supermarket. Now is the time to hold…

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