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Distorting the MS-13 Threat

Sonja Wolf NACLA
The Trump administration’s depiction of Central American gang members conveniently overlooks the United States’ role in perpetuating gang violence at home and abroad.

New Way of Teaching Columbus: Putting Him On Trial for Murder

Amy Graff San Francisco Gate
A longtime educator has created an increasingly popular lesson that turns the classroom into a courtroom and asks students to put Columbus, his crew, the King and Queen of Spain and the indigenous people on trial for murder.

Life-Size Graphs Blocking Streets Outside City Hall Show Why Chicago Is Not a Sanctuary City

Reyna Wences, OCAD & Tania Unzueta, Mijente, OCAD Organized Communities Against Deportation
The art installation and protests puts a spotlight on the $95 million police academy proposed by the Mayor, the killing of Black and Brown youth by the Police Department, and the City’s role in contributing to deportations of immigrants and the criminalization of Black and Brown Chicagoans.

US Police Killings Undercounted by Half

Jamiles Lartey The Guardian
Harvard study finds over half of deaths wrongly classified, in latest example of databases greatly undercounting police killings

Dispatches From the Culture Wars

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World’s richest propaganda squad; The Janus head; Hate them some Kap; Yes, even architecture; Rapist knows best; Liberation librarians

The Scandal of Pentagon Spending

William D. Hartung Tom Dispatch
How do you spell boondoggle? It's clear, it spells Pentagon and it goes directly to private corporations and much of it is then wasted on useless overhead, fat executive salaries, and startling (yet commonplace) cost overruns on weapons systems and other military hardware that, in the end, won’t even perform as promised.