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Dangl: Paraguay’s Bitter Harvest
Jul 26, 2012
The Franco administration has already proven to be a closer ally of corporate globalization
Schechter: The Politics of Collapse
Jul 25, 2012
Deep internal conflicts have destabilized the system even as new forces and protest movements emerge to challenge it
Boteach: Farm Bill Slams Middle Class
Jul 24, 2012
Bill makes the middle class pay for deficit reduction
Pilger: Blair, Olympic Deals and Another Britain
Jul 23, 2012
This is a story of two letters and two Britains
Oikonomakis: Steelworkers Guard Thermopylae
Jul 22, 2012
A nine-month strike symbolizes the struggle for the defence of labor rights, worker’s solidarity, and the government’s role in today’s neoliberal Europe
Needleman: Whose Jobs Are We Bringing Home?
Jul 21, 2012
Our job remains to humanize and build communities among workers across nations, divisions, and differences
Engelhardt: That Makes No Sense!
Jul 20, 2012
While those in the National Security Complex are working hard to make themselves ever more opaque to us, we are meant to be ever more “transparent” to them
Swanson: Minnesota Town Bans Signs
Jul 19, 2012
We can be locked in free-speech cages -- all in the name of the war that is supposed to make us free by killing people
Bond: South Africa’s Micro-Protest Wave
Jul 18, 2012
The recent surge of unconnected community protests across South Africa confirms the country’s profound social, economic and environmental contradictions
Gottesdiener: Brooklyn Women Make Their Building Theirs
Jul 17, 2012
The campaign is pushing the community not only to stand up for their rights as tenants, but to also reconsider social and political marginalization itself
Fuentes: Paraguay: US Gains From Coup
Jul 16, 2012
The coup gave the US an opportunity to escalate its military presence in the region.
Vorpahl: Pensions Under Attack
Jul 15, 2012
Playing on the assumption of common cause between the economic elite and workers, corporations plead poverty and sermonize on the need for "shared sacrifice"
Sturgis: Big Money & Sea Level Rise
Jul 14, 2012
Will North Carolina's leaders decide that the best way to proceed is by listening to the vested interests that fund their campaigns?
Landau: Fires in the West
Jul 13, 2012
Few of the former homeowners in Colorado will likely grant much credibility to the climate change deniers
Kagarlitsky: Media Sadomasochism
Jul 12, 2012
Bad news is a very popular genre in the Russian media
Rasmus: Weather and Jobs
Jul 11, 2012
When economists explain by resort to metaphor it is usually a good indication they have little idea as to what the actual causes may be
Watt: Mexico: The Neo-Liberal 'Drugs War'
Jul 10, 2012
A new book looks beyond the clichés to examine the causes of the violence associated with illegal drugs trafficking in Mexico
Rasmus: A Broken Retirement System
Jul 09, 2012
The retirement system established in the U.S. in the late 1940s is today in a state of severe collapse
Cooke: Job Crisis Denial
Jul 08, 2012
The jobs crisis stays in the shadows, out of mind, and consequently unaddressed
Jul 27, 2012
Apathy and a lack of grassroots movements have always helped strengthen authoritarian rule, corruption and bureaucratic lawlessness