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EXCLUSIVE EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — One would have thought that the outbreak of a major war between Iran and Israel with daily missile salvos, would have immediately led to an energy crisis, but trauma in the market that once would have seemed extraordinary, barely makes the headlines today. So, what doesContinue Reading

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OPINION — In the age of strategic disruption, critical infrastructure is both the terrain and the target. The West’s optimization of systems for efficiency and scale has inadvertently created a landscape of chokepoints. These points of failure are deeply embedded in our cloud ecosystems, energy corridors, undersea cables, and satelliteContinue Reading

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Common Dreams Update: Following publication of the article found at this URL—originally titled “‘Disgusting’: VA Doctors Can Now Reportedly Refuse to Treat Unmarried People, Democrats on June 16 and which was based on June 16 Guardian reporting under the headline “‘Extremely Disturbing and Unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors toContinue Reading

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters When immigration agents raided a fast-fashion warehouse a mile from Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles this month, the tension in the school was palpable. That did not let up after a student learned his father andContinue Reading

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Right now, the only thing that’s preventing President Traitor 47 from going full dictator is the federal court system and our ability to challenge his unlawful, unconstitutional behavior in it. Republicans in the Senate think they have a fix for that, though. It’s a good-news, bad-news scenario, although the badContinue Reading

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained New York City’s comptroller, Brad Lander, as he and other activists escorted immigrants in the halls of Manhattan’s federal immigration court house. Lander is a progressive Democrat running for mayor, although he is trailing in the polls. He is only the latest of manyContinue Reading

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Mahmoud Khalil is finally being released from ICE custody, more than three months after he was detained for his involvement in Columbia University’s pro-Palestine protests.   In a hearing Friday, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz found that Khalil did not present a flight risk or a danger to his community,Continue Reading