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Smuggling Has Always Been an Essential Component of the US Economy
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t r u t h o u t | 07.31=20
Smuggling Has Always Been an Essential Component of the US Economy
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/25273-smuggling-and-illicit-=
trade-have-always-been-an-essential-component-of-the-us-economy
Mark Karlin, Truthout: You may have watched fireworks celebrating the "inde=
pendence" of the United States from colonial rule. However, what if you wer=
e to learn that an important factor in the US Revolution was to ensure the =
continuation of a robust smuggling trade? Peter Andreas, author of Smuggler=
Nation, explains.
Without Clear Regulations, Disabled Children Regularly Restrained and Isola=
ted in School
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h and high school-aged children - many of them disabled - are restrained or=
put into isolation each year for behaving in ways that are considered disr=
uptive or threatening.
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ency" and privatization increase neither efficiency nor competition, but do=
lead to price increases for consumers, higher costs for government, corrup=
tion, embezzlement and the destruction of democracy.
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Dark
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are without a crucial tool for holding polluters and government regulators =
accountable.
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Pierre Guerlain, Truthout:</strong> Progressives in France have to fight a two-front battle: one against the murderous attacks carried out by the Israeli far right that some Israelis call "fascist," and a domestic one against the strange alliance between some genuinely anti-Semitic far right and Islamist groups.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1N3B0vzD5mts9RBwKOfEDKaCuOkeXmTo" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Nick Turse, TomDispatch:</strong> Is South Sudan the first hot battlefield in a new cold war? Is the conflict tearing this new nation apart actually a proxy fight between the world's two top economic and military powers - the United States and China?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> Unless we start taking the necessary actions to curb climate change immediately, California and the American southwest, some of the most populated regions in the US, may soon resemble the Sahara.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Phyllis Bennis, OtherWords:</strong> A recent poll shows 86.5 percent of Israelis oppose a ceasefire. Yet we continue to hear that Israelis want peace. It's true that at least some of them do. But in fact, there is a place for those who call for murder - at the highest political and military levels of Israeli society.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=03ZFO16DFEsHaQtnKieZ1FVhrLkK8KuQ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>History Shows Why Guatemalans Flee</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Gabriel M. Schivone, Arizona Daily Star:</strong> Ending the ongoing influx of Guatemalans across the US-Mexico divide requires not only a recognition of the long history of US abuse of the Guatemalan people, but some sort of substantial restitution: from radical immigration reform to extensive reparations for Guatemala.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Ben Kuebrich, Waging Nonviolence:</strong> Drone protester Mary Anne Grady-Flores' sentencing demonstrates something important about US militarism: It seeps into every crack of the legal system, right down to the mundane town courtroom, with its fluorescent lights and folding tables.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bF6%2Ffz5fQlp8K0TXsDGO0aaCuOkeXmTo" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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