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Schechter: Is IranTelling Us Something?
Oct 02, 2012
There are clearly initiatives underway to build bridges, but so far, media outlets, eager to fan the flames of confrontation and polarization, have ignored them
Engler: Quebec's Protests Force Change
Oct 01, 2012
Beyond politicizing a generation, the protests have spurred a more socially and ecologically progressive political climate
Street: On Class Rule and Theater Politics
Sep 30, 2012
Romney is taking “out of touch” to a new level. He seems straight from central casting when it comes to helping Obama easily beat the Republicans
Butigan: A Resurgent Anti-Nuclear Movement
Sep 29, 2012
We are in the midst of the next phase of the movement for nuclear disarmament, where a series of campaigns across the U.S. are pumping life into the seven-decade struggle
Sturgis: Disenfranchising Latino Voters
Sep 28, 2012
Number of states that have enacted voting restrictions, which a new report from the Advancement Project finds will have a disproportionate effect on Latino voters: 23
Meister: Death In the Tobacco Fields
Sep 27, 2012
There are nearly 100,000 tobacco harvesters, some as young as 12, most of them Mexican immigrants
Slaughter: Strikes at Walmart
Sep 26, 2012
A strike at Walmart? Two of them
Sturgis: Fracking's Toll On Communities
Sep 25, 2012
A new report examines the environmental and health damage from fracking
Schechter: When Is A Terrorist Not A Terrorist?
Sep 24, 2012
Question: When is a terrorist a terrorist? Answer: When the US government says so
Street: The 1% and the 47%
Sep 23, 2012
As the rich never admit, they aren’t really anti-government. They are for big government that serves elite interests and punishes the rest
Sturgis: Reality & Romney's Tax Claims
Sep 22, 2012
Date that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told wealthy donors that "47 percent" of U.S. voters "pay no income tax": 9/17/2012
Kagarlitsky: Demonstration Déjà vu
Sep 21, 2012
The energy behind the marches is undoubtedly waning, but it is also clear that the series of protests over much of the past year has changed society
Pilger: Apartheid Never Died
Sep 20, 2012
There is a grand illusion that relegates all human endeavour to a material value, and confuses media with information and military conquest with humanitarian purpose
Schechter: An “October Surprise?
Sep 19, 2012
Obama may need a conflict to win over independents
Cooke: Jobs & and the Fiscal Cliff
Sep 18, 2012
Until corporations have an ideal environment to make super profits, unemployment will remain purposefully high
Swanson: It's Us or the Nukes
Sep 17, 2012
The nukes have got to go, or we do. This planet's not big enough for both
Cohen-Joppa: Nuclear Resistance Escalates In South India
Sep 16, 2012
Hundreds of people have been arrested, dozens remain in custody and three deaths have been reported as protests against the start-up of the nuclear power plant at Kudankulam, India
Rasmus: Part 9: America’s Ten Crises
Sep 15, 2012
Forms of Democracy in America cannot be successfully narrowed by corporate interests without the accompanying further restriction of civil liberties and rights
Street: Striking Neoliberalism in Chicago
Sep 14, 2012
Teachers unions and indeed public schools have become perfect foils for misdirecting legitimate popular anger over the failings of the educational system
Oct 03, 2012
I first met Arthur Murray a generation ago and knew he was the best kind of trouble