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Capitol Insurrection-Jan. 6, 2021: Congress Investigates Ex-President

One year ago this week the U.S. Capitol was attacked, not by foreign terrorists or an army as in 1814…

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2021: The Year of the Coup

2021 was the Year of the Coup, its aftermath, aftershocks, and recurrent antecedents. Even before the year began, Random Lengths…

4 years ago

The Pentagon’s 20-Year Killing Spree Has Always Treated Civilians as Expendable

Dollar figures are apt to look abstract on a screen, but they indicate the extent of the mania. Biden had…

4 years ago

Historic Star-Kist Cannery Threatened

Port eyes demolition as a solution to short-term crises Terelle Jerricks contributed to this article The grand old Star-Kist Cannery,…

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New Normal is Normalized Censorship

Project Censored’s co-directors, Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, title their introduction to this year’s edition of State of the…

4 years ago

UCB Lecturers Greet The New Contract As “Game Changer” And “Only the Beginning”

Winning a livable salary was one of the key factors that motivated students on the Berkeley campus to support their…

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Rooted In Exclusion, Towns Fight For The Right To Water

In 2001 residents of this unincorporated community began asking Exeter to extend its water lines to provide service. The city…

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A Veteran’s Day Story ― Brian Thomas, the Man on the Bridge

Two days after Veterans Day was unseasonably warm and reminiscent of summer. I wasn’t planning on doing much except to…

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AQMD Replaces Failed Cap-and-Trade Refinery Rule

“Far from Perfect,” but a “Step in the Right Direction,” Activists Say Six years after it stunned its staff by…

4 years ago

POLA Passes $10 Clean Truck Fee

Coalition for Clean Air calls it “woefully insufficient” On Nov. 4, the Port of LA, belatedly, became the first port…

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