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Clearing the FOG on the New National Defense Strategy: Great Power Conflict and Arms Race
The new National Defense Strategy announced last week moves from the 'war on terror' toward conflict with great powers. The move from military confli…
8 years, 4 months ago
Clearing the FOG on the Fight for Immigrant's Rights; DACA and Beyond
In 2017, President Trump repealed Obama's executive order for young immigrants, Dreamers, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which…
8 years, 4 months ago
Clearing the FOG on Jeff Sessions' Assault on Marijuana Legalization
Jeff Sessions, head of the Department of Justice, reversed the "Cole Memo" that allowed states to pursue marijuana legalization without fear of the f…
8 years, 4 months ago
Clearing the FOG on the decline of the United States Empire
In his latest book, "In the Shadow of the American Century: The rise and decline of US global power," Alfred McCoy writes about the tools used by the…
8 years, 4 months ago
Special Report: Are Long-Term US Regime Change Efforts behind Iran Protests?
We talked to Mostafa Afzalzadeh from Tehran about what the current protests in Iran are about and where they are going. Mostafa has been an independe…
8 years, 5 months ago
Clearing the FOG on Movement Strategy for our Times
In 2017, more people became activated for social justice. At the same time, white supremacist groups became more visible, marching with torches and c…
8 years, 5 months ago
Clearing the FOG on Issues that Drive the Coming Trasformation
The year 2017 has been another active year for people fighting on a wide range of fronts. The Trump administration has brought many issues that have …
8 years, 5 months ago
Clearing the FOG on our Rights to the Internet
On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), lead by chairman Ajit Pai, voted to dismantle the hard-won net neutrality rules, g…
8 years, 5 months ago
Clearing the FOG on the Great and Growing Wealth Divide
A new report released by Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie of the Institute for Policy Studies, "Billionaire Bonanza 2017: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of …
8 years, 6 months ago
Clearing the FOG on Divesting from the War Machine and Wall Street
Two new divestment campaigns launched this year. One is the Divest from the War Machine campaign, led by CODEPINK and endorsed by more than 60 organi…
8 years, 7 months ago