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How the ‘Biden Plan’ Will Worsen the Plight of Central American Refugee Children

How the ‘Biden Plan’ Will Worsen the Plight of Central American Refugee Children How the ‘Biden Plan’ Will Worsen the Plight of Central American Refugee Children

The vice president is promoting a 2016 budget that deepens the drug-war and free-trade agendas that contributed to the crisis.

Apr 7, 2015 / Laura Carlsen and Foreign Policy In Focus

Forensic Translation

Forensic Translation Forensic Translation

Translation is not the art of failure but the art of the possible.

Apr 7, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff

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Ralph Nader’s Unanswered Letters to the President Ralph Nader’s Unanswered Letters to the President

His critiques of US policy are sharp, impassioned and true to democratic principles. If only Bush and Obama had bothered to listen.

Apr 7, 2015 / Ralph Nader

Why ‘The Nation’ Has Joined With the ACLU to Sue the NSA

Why ‘The Nation’ Has Joined With the ACLU to Sue the NSA Why ‘The Nation’ Has Joined With the ACLU to Sue the NSA

Our intelligence apparatus, operating in the dark.

Apr 7, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

How Drones Turned American Wars Into Manhunts and Humans Into Prey

How Drones Turned American Wars Into Manhunts and Humans Into Prey How Drones Turned American Wars Into Manhunts and Humans Into Prey

The remote-controlled hunting of human beings has become standard practice in American warfare.

Apr 7, 2015 / Grégoire Chamayou

US Soldiers and Contractors Accused of Sexually Abusing Children in Colombia Between 2003 and 2007

US Soldiers and Contractors Accused of Sexually Abusing Children in Colombia Between 2003 and 2007 US Soldiers and Contractors Accused of Sexually Abusing Children in Colombia Between 2003 and 2007

What the media don’t cover when Colombian women are raped by members of the US military.

Apr 7, 2015 / Greg Grandin

How to Create an Afghan Blackwater

How to Create an Afghan Blackwater How to Create an Afghan Blackwater

How an American fantasy conflict created disaster in Afghanistan.

Apr 6, 2015 / Anand Gopal

How the War With ISIS Has Exposed Kurdistan’s Internal Divisions

How the War With ISIS Has Exposed Kurdistan’s Internal Divisions How the War With ISIS Has Exposed Kurdistan’s Internal Divisions

The West’s favorite Iraq “success story,” the Kurdish region is actually plagued with corruption and nepotism.

Apr 6, 2015 / Jenna Krajeski

The Least Among Us: The War in the Donbas Is Terrorizing Ukraine’s Most Vulnerable Citizens

The Least Among Us: The War in the Donbas Is Terrorizing Ukraine’s Most Vulnerable Citizens The Least Among Us: The War in the Donbas Is Terrorizing Ukraine’s Most Vulnerable Citizens

The Western media have forgotten those who have suffered the most in the Ukrainian civil war—the eastern Ukrainians.

Apr 6, 2015 / James Carden

This Is the Last Thing Putin Wanted

This Is the Last Thing Putin Wanted This Is the Last Thing Putin Wanted

What are the Kremlin's true intentions in Ukraine?

Apr 6, 2015 / Stephen F. Cohen

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