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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
Benjamin: The Backlash Against Drones
Mar 26, 2013
Efforts to counter drones at home and abroad are growing
Bond: Brics Cook The Climate
Mar 25, 2013
While Brics fossil fuel addiction is well known, less understood is how their heads of states consistently sabotage global climate talks
Novak: Slovenia ‘Protestivals’
Mar 24, 2013
Flower-giving has become one of the symbols of nonviolent protest that repeats itself throughout the movement
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
Mar 31, 2013
The European elite are more afraid of defaults than Russians are of revolutions