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America Goes to War

At last week’s Rage Against the War Machine peace rally in Washington there was no shortage of speakers who denounced the Biden Administration’s hypocritical foreign policy, which essentially judges any violent action undertaken by the United…

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Steelworkers

The Pink Hard Hat

When I hired into the steel mill, Lorain Works, US Steel, in 1970, it was a monstrous place, smoking, churning out tons of steel, with thousands of workers going in and out almost constantly. Around 9,000 workers they said.

The town of…

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Streets with markings for bike lanes

We were wrong about “Sharrows”

The following is an op-ed from the Colorado-based PeoplesForBikes, an advocacy group with a mission to transform “the U.S. into the best bicycling nation in the world.”

It was the late 1990s and I thought we were so clever. We had just…

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Nations’ Governments Need Unarmed Defense Plans

It’s quite a high hurdle to appeal to a country that’s been militarily invaded — after decades of military defense (and offense) preparations and the accompanying cultural indoctrination in the supposed necessity of military defense — to appeal…

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