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Violence in America: It’s Not Just About Guns

By Patrick Cockburn* –  CounterPunch In 1993 I was living in a house in Kenyon Street in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood of Washington DC when a gunman started shooting pedestrians from his car nearby. Over an eight-week period, he killed four people and seriously wounded…

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A Culture That Kills Its Children Has No Future

By  Elizabeth Bruenig* – The Atlantic An America vacillating between violent struggle and idle nihilism is shuddering toward its end The grieving people of Uvalde, Texas, a town in the Hill Country about 80 miles west of San Antonio, now confront the irreplaceability of…

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The Chilean Right Made Colonia Dignidad Possible

By Daniel Kressel and Philipp Kandler (*) – Jacobin Chileans have long known about Colonia Dignidad, a German colony in Chile depicted in the Netflix series A Sinister Sect whose settlers committed countless acts of pedophilia, murder, and torture. Less discussed: the…