'The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon': America's deadly divide – and why it has returned

Hunter* – lobelog.com Additional sanctions on Russia, followed by Moscow’s drastic cutting of the US government’s presence in the Russian Federation, take the “Russia issue” to a new level of intensity and risk of Cold War II. Most blame lies with Russian President Vladimir…

By Mychal Denzel Smith* – The Nation Where we have (mostly) condemned slavery, we as a country have refused to condemn its defenders. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a federal holiday, but I didn’t celebrate…

By DECLAN WALSH* – The New York Times Magazine The strange twists in the case of Giulio Regeni’s disappearance in Cairo. The target of the Egyptian police, that day in November 2015, was the street vendors selling socks, $2 sunglasses and fake jewelry, who clustered under the…

Lee Fang – The Intercept*  FOR ALEJANDRO CHAFUEN, the gathering this spring at the Brick Hotel in Buenos Aires was as much a homecoming as it was a victory lap. Chafuen, a lanky Argentine-American, had spent his adult life working to undermine left-wing social movements and…

Hugh Miles* – The Guardian New details have emerged about the abductions of three dissident Saudi princes in what appears to be a systematic state-run Saudi government programme to kidnap defectors and dissidents. The three, all members of the Saudi regime before they became…

By Hazel Henderson*  In the USA, founders feared concentration of power in government. They installed separation of powers in the US Constitution—-buttressed by freedom of the press.