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Delusions of Nation Building: The end of America’s forever wars brings the start of a global reckoning

Delusions of Nation Building: The end of America’s forever wars brings the start of a global reckoning

Posted by | Aug 28, 2021 |

The lightning speed takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban forces, which captured all 17 of the regional capitals and the national capital of Kabul in about nine days with astonishing ease, was a result of “cease fire” deals. That amounted to bribes, negotiated after former president Trump’s administration came to an agreement with the Taliban in February 2020. When U.S. officials excluded the Afghan government from the deal, soldiers believed that it was only a question of time until they were on their own and cut deals to switch sides. When Biden announced that he would honor Trump’s deal, the...

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Corporate Sponsorship: When Conservatives work to ensure the Federal government is a failure

Corporate Sponsorship: When Conservatives work to ensure the Federal government is a failure

Posted by | Aug 28, 2021 |

A study by the Peace Research Institute in Norway and the University of Aarhus that polled 6,000 adults from the United States, Denmark, Italy, and Hungary found that the COVID pandemic has further eroded faith in government among people all across Europe and the United States. This is the capstone of “conservative” or neoliberal efforts to destroy faith in democratic governance in developed countries, an effort that goes back 50 years. In the 1950s and 1960s Americans had a lot of trust in government — around 80 percent of Americans said they trusted government — as did the citizens...

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Closing the wealth gap: Milwaukee considers providing basic income to heal racial inequity

Closing the wealth gap: Milwaukee considers providing basic income to heal racial inequity

Posted by | Aug 25, 2021 |

Towanda Perkins is a single mother with two grown sons. She works as an office manager at a nonprofit organization in Milwaukee. During the pandemic, she has seen many mothers with children who have lost their jobs and been evicted by landlords. Perkins is expecting to see more homelessness once the temporary halt on certain evictions issued by the CDC, recently extended to October 3, ends. Between June and November of last year, the national poverty rate increased by 2.4% overall — but 3.1% for Black Americans, according to economists from the University of Chicago and the University of...

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Kenosha’s Black community still seeks answers one year after the Jacob Blake shooting

Kenosha’s Black community still seeks answers one year after the Jacob Blake shooting

Posted by | Aug 25, 2021 |

The incident, which started as a domestic call during a child’s birthday party, took place on a Kenosha street on a Sunday afternoon in late August of 2020. Neighbors took a cell phone video as Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey fired eight shots into Jacob Blake’s back. The video went viral, quickly igniting a firestorm. The small city on Lake Michigan, near the Illinois border, became the center of a nationwide reckoning over race and police violence. To this day Blake, who was 29 years old when he was shot, continues to recover and is paralyzed from the waist...

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Reggie Jackson: My journey to visit Selma, Alabama and the history some want us all to forget

Reggie Jackson: My journey to visit Selma, Alabama and the history some want us all to forget

Posted by | Aug 24, 2021

This special series by Reggie Jackson explores his journey across four cities in Alabama, to visit historical sites that many are trying to erase from public memory so the disturbing truth about racism, segregation, and White Supremacy can be forgotten. mkeind.com/alabamajourney Dr. King’s right hand man, the Reverend Ralph Abernathy described Selma, Alabama as the “Capital of the Black Belt.” Back in the 1950s and 60s it was the home of Selma University and Lutheran University which drew some of the youngest and brightest minds from the Black community and became a major intellectual and cultural center. Whites from...

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Afghanistan under Taliban rule faces a looming economic crisis as the flow of foreign aid runs dry

Afghanistan under Taliban rule faces a looming economic crisis as the flow of foreign aid runs dry

Posted by | Aug 24, 2021 |

It is still early days, and the picture of what is happening in Afghanistan now that the Taliban has regained control of the country continues to develop. Central to affairs there is money. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, with about half its population requiring humanitarian aid this year and about 90% of its people living below the poverty line of making $2 a day. The country depends on foreign aid. Under the U.S.-supported Afghan government, the United States and other nations funded about 80% of Afghanistan’s budget. In 2020, foreign aid made up about...

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