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Highland, UT
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We will be on the ground in #SaltLakeCity on Wed., Jan. 17th from 6-8PM! Join us for a special evening of community, conversation and action, as we build momentum to get on the ballot in #Utah. 209 E 500 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 RSVP: cornelwest2024.com/utahmeetu… #CornelWest2024

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former senior CIA agent John Stockwell: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast."
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I’m living in the absolute best timeline❤️‍🔥🧌
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“Kids Who Die” Langston Hughes, 1938
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"I wanted to interpret a hymn to the triumph of the soul over life. . .Rudolf Maté, who manned the camera, understood the demands of psychological drama in the close-ups and he gave me what I wanted, my feeling and my thought: realized mysticism." criterion.com/current/posts/…
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The White House is whipping against Bernie Sanders Yemen war powers resolution, urging a no vote this evening, sources involved tell me theintercept.com/2022/12/06/…
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“I don't care how much theory you got, if it don't have any practice applied to it, then that theory happens to be irrelevant.” The FBI and Chicago PD murdered Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton in his sleep on this day in 1969. He was only 21 years old.
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Hey folks! A couple of friends have started a school lunch program paying off debts before Christmas. If you can and want here’s the venmo they’re paying through!
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BREAKING: A federal judge blocked Title 42, a Trump-era policy that used the pandemic to deny people basic rights to claim asylum. Trump used it to deport over 400,000 people. President Biden has used it to expel over 4 times that amount, about 1.6 million people.
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Nov 12 1969 - Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the March 1968 US massacre of over 100 civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai. newyorker.com/magazine/1972/…
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BREAKING NEWS: Mutulu Shakur, movement veteran, member of the Black Liberation Army, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, was paroled & will be released after 36 years behind bars, to spend his final days outside of prison walls. Mutulu has been diagnosed w/ terminal cancer. Free Em All
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a Western journalist smugly asks Nelson Mandela why he won't denounce Castro, Arafat and Gaddafi. Here is his reply:
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This is the single most important map to understand the US empire's new cold war on China and Washington's extremely aggressive foreign policy
I find this set of two maps (2000 vs. 2020) to be eminently enlightening when analyzing modern geopolitics Countries whose main trading partner is the US (blue) or China (red)
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We tried to get this passed in Virginia in 2020. It was killed in committee, and one of the Dems who killed it explained that the budgetary impact of abolishing prison slavery would be too high. In June, the California Dems rejected an anti-slavery proposal for the same reason.
BREAKING: Alabama voted to fully abolish slavery, cutting racist language from the state constitution, including language that permits slavery in prison "for the punishment of crime."
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Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is planning to create a pan-Latin American currency to break dependency on the US dollar.
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Today marks the 66th anniversary of the #KafrQasim massacre, where Israeli border patrol murdered 49 unsuspecting Palestinian villagers on the eve of the 1956 war.
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The oldest detainee in Guantánamo Bay, Saifullah Paracha, 75, has been released today after almost two decades of being held without charge, trial, or conviction. During that period 780 people have been held there and 9 have died.
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Haitians are protesting their government's request to bring U.S. troops into Haiti. Haiti has been subject to foreign intervention at least three times. The last intervention brought a UN peacekeeping mission, which has since faced multiple allegations of abuse.
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