Lucas Ropek
Lucas Ropek is a journalist based in Massachusetts. He worked for the Working Families Party in NYC on issues of income inequality and worker rights. His interests include U.S. foreign policy, pop-culture, and freedom fries.

Accusations of 9/11 government cover-up trouble U.S.-Saudi relations

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The two parties don’t often agree, but they agree that 9/11 victims’ families shouldn’t be able to sue the Saudis.
4/25/16 10:13am by 5

Hillary Clinton has foreign policy experience, but that doesn’t mean it’s good

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Hillary Clinton has tons of foreign policy experience, but that experience was largely disastrous.
4/4/16 1:26pm by 51

Nestlé’s plan to bottle water in Oregon just hit a major snag

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Native American tribes and other local residents are doing what they can to block Nestlé’s plan.
11/9/15 9:42am by 7

Who is responsible for the collapse of the two-state solution?

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One would think that peace would be possible, if only a few dishonest brokers weren’t standing in the way.
11/3/15 10:27am by 11

The thing you should be most afraid of this Halloween is Paul Ryan’s new job

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There are few things you could go as for Halloween that are scarier than Paul Ryan’s agenda.
10/31/15 4:42pm by 14
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Israel’s strategy for de-escalating violence isn’t working

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Amid another round of violence in Israel, the question of who started it is less important than how it will end.
10/23/15 11:15am by 10

California activists are suing the Forest Service for letting Nestle illegally extract water

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Nestle’s permit to extract water in California expired in 1988.
10/20/15 8:35am by 13

As America’s infrastructure crumbles, water privatization becomes more likely

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Why manage our own natural resources when corporations are willing to do it for us (for insane profits)?
9/30/15 1:59pm by 18

Barack Obama is the new Ronald Reagan

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Uncomfortable parallels between Obama and the Gipper.
7/6/15 12:00pm by 75

National Intelligence Council: Water wars are coming

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Wars are fought over resources, and the world is running low on its most basic one.
7/2/15 2:00pm by 22

When corporations co-opt social justice, who pays?

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Whatever values are assigned to corporate behavior, the motive is always profit.
6/3/15 12:00pm by 13

Mad Max’s reboot: Feminism and environmentalism as told through explosions

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The dystopian action franchise rights the wrongs of its previous films.
5/19/15 12:00pm by 19

Nestle is closing in on privatized water in Oregon

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The company will make over 99% profit on the water it extracts from one rural community.
5/13/15 1:30pm by 32
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