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Public space is a literal commons: the common ground where people come together as friends, neighbors and citizens.- Jay Walljasper


PUBLIC LANDS & NATURAL AREAS        
Alaska's Tongass National Forest is under attack by the Trump administration
Trump's Forest Service is on a mission to roll back protections for public lands and wild spaces. If they have their way, the logging and fossil fuel industries will be free to wreak havoc on our national forests – causing irreparable damage to the land, wildlife and communities that depend on them. We need to take a stand and stop this before it's too late.
Friends of the Earth, October 24, 2018



JUDICIAL MATTERS




New York state sues Exxon Mobil for deceiving investors on climate-regulation risk



HIDDEN IN THE ATTIC

San Nicolas Island 

'A Country Within a Country': Inside the Navajo Nation in 1948

A Brief History of the Balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade


On November 19, 1863, speaking at the dedication ceremony in Gettysburg for the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, President Abraham Lincoln remarked that “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” In truth no one has ever forgotten, nor will anyone ever forget, what Lincoln said that day. But Lincoln was right in predicting that Americans would remember with profound gratitude those who offer, and all too often give, the last full measure of devotion so that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Such gratitude is owed in equal measure to all those veterans who came before and all those who have come since. These men and women who sacrifice so much represent the best of America.
A year-and-a-half after delivering his address at Gettysburg, Lincoln stood beneath the East Portico of the US Capitol and charged the American people to “care for him who shall have borne the battle.” The last veterans of the Civil War passed on decades ago, but the task of caring for their memory and honoring their sacrifices is one the Civil War Trust will never abandon. [Civil War Trust, November 11, 2017]



EDUCATION

Does Dressing Up Education Reform as a Civil Right Make a Difference?






















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PAKISTAN







Cipher Brief Analysis: The Pakistan Problem

NOVEMBER 7, 2018 | THE CIPHER BRIEF


Pakistan has repeatedly turned to China and Saudi Arabia for financial assistance, while the U.S. has withdrawn aid, most recently cancelling $300m, claiming that Islamabad has not done enough to root out militants operating along its border with Afghanistan.
This is happening as a new director-general takes over as head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).  Lieutenant-General Asim Munir’s role as head of the ISI is an important one strategically in the Pakistan-U.S. relationship.
The U.S. will be looking to see whether Munir’s appointment will mean business as usual with regard to ISI’s cooperation in rooting out terrorists, or whether Munir will use his role to position Pakistan as a more cooperative partner for the U.S. on that front.
The Cipher Brief tapped it’s network of experts, including former ISAF Commander, General Stanley McChrystal (Ret.), former CIA Chief of Station Kevin Hulbert, and former Director of Strategic Operational Planning for NCTC, Vice Admiral Mike LeFever (Ret.), for their thoughts on the path forward between the U.S. and Pakistan.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan recently returned from China without the concrete funding assurances that he was seeking in order to keep his country from having to request a second bailout from the International Monetary Fund.
Pakistan has repeatedly turned to China and Saudi Arabia for financial assistance, while the U.S. has withdrawn aid, most recently cancelling $300m, claiming that Islamabad has not done enough to root out militants operating along its border with Afghanistan.
This is happening as a new director-general takes over as head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).  Lieutenant-General Asim Munir’s role as head of the ISI is an important one strategically in the Pakistan-U.S. relationship.







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