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Free Press ([link removed]) continues to publish timely important articles that cover topics avoided by mainstream media. We trust that you will enjoy these articles, published in February 2023. Find us at Freepress.org.

For local Columbus news and commentary go to Columbus Free Press at [link removed].

City Council Housing Initiative Co-opts Motil’s Affordable Housing Proposal ([link removed]) : City of Columbus mayoral candidate Joe Motil states, “Today’s Columbus City Council press conference previewed their Housing Initiatives. In almost all their points, they all but copied and pasted the proposals that I have been advocating for over a year.” This is the Columbus Way.

Crime victims gather at the state capitol to applaud public safety wins, call for expanded victim support ([link removed]) : Hundreds of Crime Survivors from Across the State Call for Reforms to Help Victims Heal, End Cycles of Crime, While Honoring Loved Ones Lost to Violence

Ohio solar panel farms are booming, but construction workers are being exploited to make it happen ([link removed]) : The Ohio Laborers’ District Council, with its headquarters in Westerville and 16,000 members strong, says some out-of-state owners of these solar farms – and the temp agencies they hired to bring in construction workers – are being built by non-union, temporary, and mostly immigrant construction workers who are being paid substandard wages. They are also being used to take advantage of tax abatements.

Listen to the April 8 Saturday Night Salon here: Free Press Salon discussion on East Palestine disaster ([link removed])

At the international level (Freepress.org):
Our own Harvey Wasserman writes World's Fourth-Largest Economy—-Germany—-Is Now Post-Nuclear ([link removed]) and Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, In Ohio!!! WI Supremes…BIZ 4 Democracy….Green Amendments ([link removed])

Ramzy Baroud writes on the challenge to US currency domination: The Rise of the South: Can BRICS Weaken the Dominance of the IMF and World Bank? ([link removed]) And as always on Palestinian issues. On False Hopes and Broken Promises: Behind the Scenes of the UN Statement on Palestine ([link removed]) and Mass Protests and False Hope: Israel’s Supreme Court is No Friend of the Palestinian People ([link removed])

Dennis Kucinich writes We Need Another President Kennedy ([link removed]) . He is advocating for peace and negotiation between NATO and Russia, an issue too few are supporting.

Richard S. Ehrlich writes China & America Woo Thailand's Hearts & Minds ([link removed]) . Thailand is perfectly placed geographically and politically to be ground zero in the Game of Thrones played by the American Empire.

Retired CIA official, Philip Giraldi, writes about the collapsing United States empire The End of American “Exceptionalism”? ([link removed])

John Scales Avery contributes Failure of SVB Confirms Surprising Extent of Corporate Fraud ([link removed])

Robert Koehler writes about the term “woke” Staying Woke: Revering Life ([link removed])

Politically relevant cartoons by Clay Jones and Steve Greenberg can be seen here. ([link removed])

From Clay Jones Conjunction Misfunction ([link removed]) ; Walgreen's Abortion Ban; Viagra excluded ([link removed]) ; Director DeSantis ([link removed]) and Hell No, Dalai ([link removed])

From Steve Greenberg Republican version of History ([link removed]) ; Liar Liar: Tucker Carlson & Fox ([link removed]) ; Diversity and the GOP ([link removed]) and The Shredder ([link removed])

Antiwar article contributed by Norman Soloman The Urbanity of Evil: 20 Years After the Invasion of Iraq ([link removed]) and William Boardman writes about the threat of a President named Ron DeSantis for President? Among His Qualifications, War Crimes? ([link removed])

Under the heading of Arts and Culture, Ed Rampell continues to write excellent reviews from the West coast theater scene, including SOLOMON: Opera Review ([link removed]) and BLUE Theater Review ([link removed])

For the serious activists, our own Harvey “Sluggo” Wasserman conducts Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, In Ohio!!! WI Supremes…BIZ 4 Democracy….Green Amendments sessions covering activist issues with an emphasis on voting.

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