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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
Street: Striking Neoliberalism in Chicago
Sep 13, 2012
The progressive Chicago Teachers Union has courageously drawn a line in the sand
Rasmus: Corporatization Of American Politics
Sep 12, 2012
The new economic restructuring requires a corresponding new political restructuring—one with less democracy—to accommodate the new economy
Moran: Behind the Chicago Teachers Strike
Sep 11, 2012
Chicago teachers are on strike today to demand smaller classes, much-needed student services, and stability for a profession that’s battling a corporate takeover
Cooke: Obama's Vision Versus Economic Reality
Sep 10, 2012
This "hollowing out" of the workforce is — along with high unemployment — the most striking feature of the "new normal" of the American workforce
Sturgis: A Negligent Oil Industry
Sep 09, 2012
Number of oil industry accidents reported in Louisiana so far in the wake of Hurricane Isaac: 93
Moran: Democrats Turn on Their Union
Sep 08, 2012
Have Democrats abandoned teacher unions in their pursuit of a corporate-backed education overhaul? From the looks of the Democratic National Convention, it would seem so
Shiva: Myths About Industrial Agriculture
Sep 07, 2012
Our farms and our bodies are our labs, and every farmer and every citizen is a scientist who knows best how bad farming and bad food hurts the land and our health
Bond: Jim Yong Kim Comes To Joburg
Sep 06, 2012
If after this week’s trip, Kim decides to leave the toxic culture of SA’s minerals-energy complex unchanged, it will be yet another case of ‘dying for growth’
Sep 25, 2012
A new report examines the environmental and health damage from fracking