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Bond: Brics-From-Below
Mar 23, 2013
Given how much is at stake, critical civil society must scrutinise the claims, the processes and the outcomes of the Brics summit and its aftermath
Roos: Cyprus Tells Neoliberal Europe To Get Lost
Mar 22, 2013
In the face of massive popular outrage, Cypriot MPs spectacularly vote against a bank deposit tax imposed by the Troika, leaving the eurozone reeling
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
Kelly: War Without End
Mar 20, 2013
The effects of the U.S. bombings continue, immeasurably and indefensibly
Susskind: A Decade of Occupation
Mar 19, 2013
In Iraq, violence against women has been systematic
Rugh: Police Shooting Sparks Protest
Mar 18, 2013
To many local residents, shootings such as these are only the most shocking expressions of the day-to-day racism that young people of color experience every day
Vivas: Land For Those Who Work It
Mar 17, 2013
Indigenous people, driven from their territories, are spearheading the fight against the privatization of the land
Brown: Student Guestworkers Pressure McDonald's
Mar 16, 2013
Foreign students on cultural exchange visas walked off the job again March 6, this time from three McDonald’s restaurants near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Cooke: Chavez Succeeded Where Obama Failed
Mar 15, 2013
Chavez earned the hatred of the elite who benefit from system-wide inequality, while the rest of us on the bottom owe him our appreciation, since Chavez's fight was our fight too
Engler: Postering Revolution
Mar 14, 2013
Posters help make ideas that the dominant media marginalizes seem reasonable
Jones: Our Children Deserve Better
Mar 13, 2013
Public education is under a sustained attack, and in some cities — New Orleans, Detroit, Philadelphia — is ceasing to exist as we have known it
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
Fresnillo: Spain: We Won’t Pay
Mar 11, 2013
A report from Spain on the many ways Spanish people are facing down austerity
Laforge: Centuries of Reservations about Hanford
Mar 10, 2013
Hanford’s latest six leaks are the tip of its iceberg of radiation which is spreading to the Columbia River and beyond a plague of cancer and disease that will never come to an end
Bradbury: Home Is Where the Fight Is
Mar 09, 2013
Ramon Suero fell behind on his mortgage payments after he got fired for organizing a union
Zirin: My Talk With NBA Player Royce White
Mar 08, 2013
Royce White is an NBA player with a cause
Tokar: Vermont Voters Say No To Tar Sands Oil
Mar 07, 2013
At least 29 towns in Vermont, including Montpelier and Burlington, overwhelmingly passed resolutions opposing the proposed transport of tar sands oil through their region
Vorpahl: Austerity vs. a People's Budget
Mar 06, 2013
Portland is not broke. The problem is that those with the money are being let off the hook
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”
Mar 24, 2013
Flower-giving has become one of the symbols of nonviolent protest that repeats itself throughout the movement