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Dangl: Connecting the Struggles
Aug 02, 2012
The diversity of activities, demands, actions and representation from many movements and organizations underlined the interconnectedness between struggles
Rasmus: The Corporate Vision for Education
Aug 01, 2012
Standardization means cost cutting and the biggest cost center, since education is a service, is labor costs
Schechter: The Ignorance of “Intelligence”
Jul 31, 2012
The system is manned by ideologists and choked with ideology, constantly leading to so-called intelligence ‘failures’ that fill many library shelves
Kinane: The Drone and the Bomb
Jul 30, 2012
Fifty nations reportedly are either importing or manufacturing their own drones
Rasmus: A Different Analysis of Economic Crisis
Jul 29, 2012
The current US and global economies are steadily slipping toward another global banking crisis and consequent general economic contraction
Landau: Drug War Produces “Savages”
Jul 28, 2012
Police around the United States made thousands of drug-related arrests and doctors prescribed drugs for hundreds of thousands of sad and unmotivated adults and children
Kagarlitsky: Krymsk Unites OMON and the Opposition
Jul 27, 2012
Apathy and a lack of grassroots movements have always helped strengthen authoritarian rule, corruption and bureaucratic lawlessness
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"
Aug 03, 2012
What we see at work here is not only a rehashing of old Orientalist frames, but the addition of Arabs and Muslims to the “Southern strategy”