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Human rights groups, progressives and members of the national security establishment are extremely concerned.
Two agribusiness giants bent on destroying the ecosystem for private profit could soon dominate the world's seed and pesticide markets.
President Donald Trump's long-time personal attorney Michael Cohen arrives at a New York court on April 16, 2018, in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
Speculation has begun to grow that Michael Cohen, Trump's long-time personal attorney whose office and home were raided by the FBI, may agree to cooperate with Robert Mueller's investigation. If so, he could go down in history with Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, the mobster whose testimony ultimately destroyed the Gotti crime family.
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Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense, offers timely insights into the theory and practice of liberatory armed community self-defense. Edited by scott crow, who joined an armed Black community group against white racist militias in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the book offers a history of self-defense by communities of color against the forces of white supremacy in the US.
Isolated geographically, neglected and shrouded from the rest of the US, many rural counties have suffered from decades of disinvestment and high poverty rates. In short, because the government defines poverty by the county as a whole rather than by individual census tract, they are denied access to vital funding and programs that could help.