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- Buddhism has found a new institutional home in the West: the corporation https://www.guernicamag.com/carolyn-chen-buddhism-has-found-a-new-institutional-home-in-the-west-the-corporation/ 396 comments
- The End of the Empress https://www.guernicamag.com/the-end-of-the-empress/ 2 comments
- Charting the Land of Great Loneliness https://www.guernicamag.com/charting-the-land-of-great-loneliness/ 8 comments
- The Atrocious Robert Clive https://www.guernicamag.com/another-atrocious-man-named-clive/ 36 comments
- The Fallout (2017) https://www.guernicamag.com/the-fallout/ 7 comments
- When Silence Is a Plea Bargain: On Life as a Stutterer https://www.guernicamag.com/silence-plea-bargain/ 27 comments
- Inside the Afghan Resistance https://www.guernicamag.com/inside-the-afghan-resistance/ 2 comments military
- Footsteps in a Marked House: The Complex Role of Women in Pakistan’s Police Force https://www.guernicamag.com/footsteps-in-a-marked-house-the-complex-role-of-women-in-pakistans-police-force/ 3 comments pakistan
- Paul Beatty Interview: The winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction on truth and contradiction, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the elusive gauge of progress in America. https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/paul-beatty/ 3 comments books
- Volunteering in a Refugee Transit Camp in Greece https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/omar-robert-hamilton-welcome-to-lesvos/ 7 comments greece
- High Hitler: Hitler's drug habit wilder than widely known https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/andrea-maurer-high-hitler/ 587 comments history
- How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers’ Lives Hell https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/robert-reich-how-the-new-flexible-economy-is-making-workers-lives-hell/ 9 comments business
- Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone paying tuition should care http://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-teaching-class/ 1370 comments politics
- Robert Reich: Why has America forgotten the three most important economic lessons we learned in the thirty years following World War II? Before I answer that question, let me remind you what those lessons were… http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/robert-reich-why-the-three-biggest-economic-lessons-were-forgotten/ 640 comments politics
- Corporations like Spectra have designs on spreading their pipelines through state after state, through thousands of backyards and farm fields and forests and watersheds. Odds are those pipelines are coming to a town near you. http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/ellen-cantarow-the-frontlines-of-fracking/ 4 comments politics
- María has been living in South Carolina for 18 years. In 2011, she lost her driver's license, just before the state legislature voted to pass a strict immigration law establishing its own "border patrol." Police always put the checkpoint at the entrance to the mobile home park where María lives… http://www.guernicamag.com/features/south-carolina-the-border-control-state/ 3 comments politics
- The announcement that the US Postal Service will deliver packages for Amazon on Sundays throws into stark relief the new Janus-like philosophy of the postal service: a big hug to big business, the back of the hand to the public. http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/david-morris-yes-to-amazon-com-no-to-the-public/ 8 comments politics
- Robert Reich: The Democrat’s Version of Health Insurance Would Have Been Cheaper, Simpler, and More Popular—So why did we enact the Republican version, and why are they so upset? http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/robert-reich-the-democrats-version-of-health-insurance-would-have-been-cheaper-simpler-and-more-popular/ 212 comments politics
- Since 9/11, the FBI has used tactics that clearly raise the issue of entrapment in arresting hundreds of Muslims inside the U.S. on terrorism-related charges. http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/matthew-harwood-political-violence-and-privilege/ 200 comments politics
- Impunity in India: Major Avtar Singh of the Indian Army’s counterinsurgency in Kashmir killed dozens. India refused to punish him. So did Canada and the U.S., where he killed his family and committed suicide http://www.guernicamag.com/features/impunity-in-india/ 18 comments india
- Thousands of Kurds who disappeared from Turkey in mid 90s turning up in unmarked graves. Don't hear much about this in coverage of PKK-Turkey peace talks. http://www.guernicamag.com/features/justice-delayed/ 825 comments worldnews
- "What did those in charge of protecting us actually do after 9/11? They did everything possible to prevent public discussion of the terrorists’ declared motives and grievances." http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/on_hitchens_on_chomsky/ 3 comments politics
- To understand the nonsensical situation in which children are trained in ethnic identity through the national subjects, one has to dive into the deep shit pit of war, peace and politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Pinch your nose and off we go. http://www.guernicamag.com/features/3410/hemon_1_15_12/ 10 comments worldevents
- Behind The Rise Of The Great Powers by Liu Xiaobo --- Translation of Nobel laureate's essay on state of China. Chinese people are fed fabricated myths of success. Patriotism is channeled into superficial, arrogant nationalism. Universal values obliterated http://www.guernicamag.com/features/3360/liu_1_1_12/ 6 comments worldnews
- Robert Reich: Occupiers Occupied - According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted. http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/3258/robert_reich_occupiers_occupie/ 355 comments politics
- Who Killed Che? --- New book sheds light on complex CIA plot. Presidential adviser Walt Rostow wrote: It marks the passing of another of the aggressive, romantic revolutionaries and shows the soundness of our "preventive medicine" assistance to Bolivia http://www.guernicamag.com/features/3164/ratner_smith_10_15_11/ 3 comments worldnews
- Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2970/luis_fernando_c225rdenas_noam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+guernica%2Fblog+(guernica+%2F+blog) 3 comments politics
- Reagan's support of despots and violent insurgencies guaranteed a future of errant, and deadly, U.S. foreign policy. http://www.guernicamag.com/features/2837/john_tirman_7_1_11/ 7 comments politics
- The Story of The Story Of O (x-post from /r/ truereddit) http://www.guernicamag.com/features/2772/ciuraru_6_15_11/ 3 comments books
- Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/ 12 comments politics
- Guernica http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Despite everything, Slavoj Žižek still believes the Idea of communism is the most appropriate for our end times of crises and monsters. http://www.guernicamag.com/features/2627/zizek_5_1_11/ 81 comments philosophy
- I’ve been writing about terrorism using the official definition in the U.S. code. Now that’s considered outrageous. And the reason is when you use the official definition, it follows pretty quickly that the United States is a leading terrorist state - Noam Chomsky http://www.guernicamag.com/spotlight/1409/chomsky_half_full/ 3 comments politics
- General Anopheles - Africans little-worried by malaria. Westerners obsess about it. Campaigning by Bill Gates et al to eradicate malaria has colonial overtones: making Africa safe for foreigners http://www.guernicamag.com/features/2273/pogue_1_15_11/ 12 comments worldnews
- Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You? - America's biggest defence contractor. And that's just the beginning. it's also processing your taxes, accessing your fingerprints, scanning your packages, counting you for the census. While helping to write an Afghan constitution http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2283/william_d_hartung_is_lockheed/ 70 comments business
- Fascinating Profile of Lockheed Martin: They process your taxes, count you in the census, access your fingerprints, scan your packages. They are not a military machine, they are a Big Brother machine. http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2283/william_d_hartung_is_lockheed/ 16 comments politics
- Jamaica’s dancehall music is being blamed for the country’s violent attacks on gays. But there are many who don’t see the music as homophobic, only the battle cry of a changing nation. http://www.guernicamag.com/features/2180/greenberg_12_1_10/ 8 comments worldevents
- Why fight wars our president doesn’t believe in and we can’t pay for? http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/2062/bacevich_10_1_10/ 3 comments politics
- The Huckster: Attorney helps white collar criminals pick which prison they are assigned to http://www.guernicamag.com/features/1648/the_huckster/ 3 comments indepthstories
- Are You There God? No, Really. I'm Asking. http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/271/are_you_there_god_no_really_im/ 3 comments reddit.com