Democracy is on the line in Virginia; get out and vote
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Let’s take a pause and ponder the State of Virginia and its current fragile democracy.
Search Results for civil rights
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Augusta County leaders continue to target Scott Seaton: It’s not working out for them
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The six members of the Board of Supervisors who want Scott Seaton gone from Augusta County politics are trying out a host of approaches at casting Seaton in an unflattering light.
The truth about American history may hurt, but we still have to be able to face it
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If the right gets its way, maybe in a decade or two, the United States will be free of its slave-owning past.
The New Abnormal: Authoritarian control freaks want to micromanage our lives
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Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become the new normal or, to be more accurate, the new abnormal when it comes to how the government relates to the citizenry.
Vietnam and the United States: 50 years into a transformed relationship
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Nearly 50 years after the Vietnam War, and more than 25 years since the US and Vietnam established diplomatic relations, the two countries have entered into a “comprehensive strategic partnership.”
Depleted uranium, one of the playthings of war, won’t bring peace to Ukraine
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Freedom’s just another word for . . . blowing up your children? Giving them cancer?
U.S. policy toward Saudi Arabia serves to normalize the killing fields
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There’s a refugee trail from the Sahel drought region in Africa, into war-ravaged Yemen, and up through Saudi Arabia towards Iraq and Turkey. It’s known as “the Eastern route,” or sometimes “the Yemeni route.”
The next crisis is anyone’s guess: But the government is ready to lock down the nation
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It’s a simple enough formula: first, you create fear, then you capitalize on it by seizing power.
Petition drive advocates body, dashboard cameras for Augusta County sheriff’s deputies
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An Augusta County resident has started a Change.org petition to urge the county to equip the sheriff’s office with dash and body cameras.
War crime and other redundancies
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If you visit the British War Museum you can still hear the voice of Bomber Harris defending his decisions to order the carpet bombing of Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne, and other German cities.
