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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
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From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan, what can two Sierra Leone developments a century apart tell us about urban elitism?
Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the construction of Freetown’s Hill Station enclave a century ago.
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Family Blames Palestinian Security Forces for Killing of West Bank Journalist Shatha al-Sabbagh
In the occupied West Bank, 22-year-old Palestinian journalist Shatha al-Sabbagh was fatally shot in the head late Saturday near her home in Jenin. Her family said she was walking with her mother in a well-lit neighborhood and carrying young children when she was shot by a sniper with the Palestinian security forces. There was reportedly no fighting nearby at the time of her death. The Palestinian Authority denied the claim and instead blamed Israeli forces for the killing. Sabbagh had been active in documenting the Palestinian Authority’s crackdown on armed groups fighting the Israeli occupation.
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Remembering Jimmy Carter: He Urged “Peace Not Apartheid” in 2007 DN! Interview on Palestine
Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, at 100 years old. The 39th president served a single, tumultuous term in the White House from 1977 to 1981. As we begin our look at his life and legacy, we hear Carter’s own words in a Democracy Now! interview discussing his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Carter criticized Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza, and argued Israel’s settlements in the Occupied Territories were the main barrier to peace. “Americans don’t want to know and many Israelis don’t want to know what is going on inside Palestine. It’s a terrible human rights persecution that far transcends what any outsider would imagine,” said Carter in 2007. “And there are powerful political forces in America that prevent any objective analysis of the problem in the Holy Land.”
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The five best non-fiction books of 2024 – according to our experts
From politics to environment, here are five books published in 2024 for all sorts of readers
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The Museum of Neoliberalism Is Being Bulldozed to Make Way for Luxury Flats | Novara Media
The satirical museum has met an end too good to be scripted. Juliet Jacques meets its co-founder, the artist Darren Cullen.
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French protesters demand removal of neoliberal president Emmanuel Macron
Tens of thousands of people joined around 70 protests across France on Saturday calling for the removal of Emmanuel Macron.
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A ‘superficial’ and ‘misguided’ version of freedom has captured the American right. Joseph Stiglitz considers the alternatives
The most important value, Joseph Stiglitz argues, is freedom. But his is a broadened concept of freedom.
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Donald Trump picks JD Vance as his running mate: Here’s why the Ohio senator is a smart choice
The choice of Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate will help Donald Trump. One reason has to do with an ideological shift in the American electorate; the other relates to Trump’s personality.
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The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi is a classic critique of capitalism – but it wasn’t an overnight success
For the first time in 80 years, Karl Polanyi’s magnum opus has been published in the UK.
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