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Sturgis: Sequestering Our Mothers
May 13, 2013
Amount the sequester is set to cut next year from programs that fight domestic violence and sexual assault: $20 million
Slaughter: Republic Windows Worker-Owners
May 11, 2013
The workers who used to build windows at Republic Windows and Doors have bought the equipment from a cut-and-run owner
Sarra: Human Rights Of Incarcerated Women
May 07, 2013
Forty percent of women in Canadian jails were separated from their own parents because of incarceration and now they are mothers raising the next generation
Shiva: We Don’t Need Genetically Engineered Bananas
Apr 27, 2013
The latest insanity from the genetic engineers is to push GMO bananas on India for reducing iron deficiency in Indian women
Sturgis: Three Years Into BP Disaster
Apr 21, 2013
In the three years since BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, number of bills enacted by Congress to make offshore drilling safer: 0
Street: Profits System 101
Apr 19, 2013
There’s no mysterious paradox – no hint of a “riddle” – in all of this. It’s American State Capitalism 101, working for the rich and powerful as always
Sturgis: Youth Unemployment Hits South Hard
Apr 13, 2013
Young adults continue to face high rates of unemployment, and the problem is particularly severe in Southern states
Street: The Golden Rule: Theirs and Ours
Apr 05, 2013
Our task as “dangerous Samaritans” and revolutionaries is to more properly align our institutional and ideological order with our underlying human and caring nature
Street: Drone War Meets Resistance
Mar 30, 2013
If the Age of Obama has taught us anything on progressive change and how it happens, it should be that it’s not about politicians and their calculations
Solomon: Digital Grab
Mar 29, 2013
While mass media have supplied endless raptures about a digital revolution, corporate power has seized the Internet -- and the grip is tightening every day
Swanson: The Bush Lie Bury
Mar 28, 2013
According to the Lie Bury, Bush was and is an education leader, saving our schools by turning them into test-taking factories and getting unqualified military officers to run them
Seidewitz: High School Students Rising
Mar 27, 2013
The walkout was not an aimless excuse to skip school, but a calculated response to a specific list of grievances
Street: Imperial Times
Mar 21, 2013
“Mistakes” and “strategic blunders” don’t really cut when evaluating the criminal and brazenly petro-imperialist (and richly bipartisan) U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq
Susskind: A Decade of Occupation
Mar 19, 2013
In Iraq, violence against women has been systematic
Swanson: Of, By, And For Lockheed Martin
Mar 12, 2013
What's the world's biggest war profiteer to do if it already owns the federal government but is having trouble kicking around the local government
Sheppard: Supreme Court Overturns Democratic Rights
Mar 05, 2013
The Supreme Court ruled that, in effect, no citizen may challenge the constitutionality of any of the executive orders, or laws passed by Congress, that violate democratic rights under the pretext of the “war on terrorism”
Street: Ecocidal Times
Feb 22, 2013
It appears that Superstorm Sandy did not direct enough of its global warming-fueled fury at the headquarters of The New York Times last October
Sturgis: The Case For Raising The Minimum Wage
Feb 18, 2013
Of the jobs gained during the recovery, percentage that were in lower-wage occupations: 58
Street: A Keystone Moment
Feb 16, 2013
It is relevant that Obama made no mention of Keystone in the address
May 17, 2013
Every effort is made to avoid killing innocent family members, but if it can't be avoided, well, the target "brought it on himself"