Taking a page from the mainland China book, Hong Kong's high court is trying to stop "violent" content online, but they're really targeting protesters. Oiwan Lam writes.
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Blame Over Justice: The Human Toll of the Navy’s Relentless Push to Punish One of Its Own
Navy Cmdr. Bryce Benson accepted responsibility for the deadly crash of the USS Fitzgerald and was told, “That’s done now.” But when another ship crashed, the Navy decided to charge him with murder. Megan Rose writes.
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If Voting Is So Important, Why Aren’t Fair, Open, Verifiable Elections Important?
The lip service of democracy is silent when it comes to ensuring voting is fair and open. Why?
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Should We Have Billionaires?
Behind the philosophical question of whether or not there should be billionaires, a more immediate question lurks. Dean Baker writes.
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Sunday Comics
If I stole somebody else's wave to fly up...Some kind of verb; some kind of moving thing; the Sunday Comics; some hand is motioning to rise
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Free Thing of the Week: Rebuilding Syria
Who will rebuild Syria, and how? Where will five million displaced Syrians live? This week's free thing explores the rebuilding of Syria.
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Poem of Identity and Authority
Poetry by Arturo Desimone.
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Is ‘OK Boomer’ the ‘New N-Word,’ or Are Millennials Still Destroying Everything? – How media coverage of intergenerational divides obscures class conflict
Corporate media love to pose economic strife as generational strife. Alan MacLeod on the latest round of tommyrot.
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Sunday Comics
The Mickey Mouse badge told the Ayatollah at his feet, "You drink your oil you schmuck, we'll eat our heads of wheat." But I'm the man in grey, we're Sunday Comics at the Star and we don't have a say in the war games that they play.
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Eroding: A Photo Poem Series
Photography by Leela. Poems by Goirick Brahmachari
