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### [L.A. County Faces a Government Shake-Up](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33349:l-a-county-faces-a-government-shake-up&catid=312)

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#  GUEST WORDS

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### Walmartland: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico Are Displacing Local Culture

Written by Tamara Pearson on August 30 2021.

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## [The American Fool: How Provincialism, Arrogance, and Greed Make American Foreign Policy an Exercise in Idiocy](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22435:the-american-fool-how-provincialism-arrogance-and-greed-make-american-foreign-policy-an-exercise-in-idiocy&catid=378)

Because its résumé of war crimes, international terror, and election skullduggery rivals the length of The Bible, most critics of the CIA – and Ameri…

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Written by Joel Kotkin on August 29 2021.

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Written by Michael Harriot on August 23 2021.

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Written by James Preston Allen on August 23 2021.

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Written by Alex Bollinger on August 16 2021.

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Written by Melvin Goodman on August 09 2021.

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Written by Zelda Bronstein on July 22 2021.

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Written by Sam Pizzigati on July 22 2021.

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Written by Leron Gubler on February 26 2018.

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