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Marcuse: Sandy, Housing, the Market,
Feb 27, 2013
An adequate public housing program is in an alternate dimension, that of the potential, the possible but not yet factual. It is simply not on the table
Cooke: Austerity USA Begins March 1st
Feb 26, 2013
U.S. politicians have cried wolf over austerity long enough for the public to ignore them. A perfect time, then, for politicians to actually unleash the wolves
Roos: Mass Demonstrations In Spain
Feb 25, 2013
Hundreds of thousands take to the streets to denounce austerity and defend democracy as corruption scandals shake Spanish royal house and government
Landau: “Fresh Start” Wth Latin America?
Feb 24, 2013
Cuba’s lack of reverence for US supremacy in the region and Castro’s expropriation of US corporate property made Havana a target
Zirin: Global System of Deadly Misogyny
Feb 23, 2013
Short of a billion of us rising, happy and safe homes will not be a reality for the women of the world
Street: Ecocidal Times
Feb 22, 2013
It appears that Superstorm Sandy did not direct enough of its global warming-fueled fury at the headquarters of The New York Times last October
Kucera: Making the Whole City Your Bargaining Committee
Feb 21, 2013
We’re not just raising awareness—we’re working to find solutions
Zirin: Mental Health Revolutionary
Feb 20, 2013
NBA player Royce White wants to use basketball as a platform to fight for universal mental health coverage with clinics in every community
Cooke: What the 1% Heard
Feb 19, 2013
Obama's state of the union address was a pro-corporate agenda packaged with chocolate covered rhetoric for the masses; easy to swallow, but deadly poisonous
Sturgis: The Case For Raising The Minimum Wage
Feb 18, 2013
Of the jobs gained during the recovery, percentage that were in lower-wage occupations: 58
Xypolia: Greece's Big Smog
Feb 17, 2013
The cost of heating oil has become unaffordable for the overtaxed and underpaid Greeks -- resulting in the use of the cheaper alternative of solid fuels
Street: A Keystone Moment
Feb 16, 2013
It is relevant that Obama made no mention of Keystone in the address
Laforge: 35 Years for Embarrassing the Guards?
Feb 15, 2013
Intervenors face decades in prison for tying “crime scene” tape on H-bomb factory
Solomon: What Obama Said -- and What He Meant
Feb 14, 2013
Let’s decode the president’s smooth oratory in the realms of climate change, war and civil liberties
Rasmus: Tragedy Has Many Faces
Feb 13, 2013
The State of the Union address last night, February 12, was proof, once again, that everything changes but nothing changes with the two parties in Washington
Cooke: Obama’s Shakedown of Medicare
Feb 12, 2013
The Medicare cuts are part of a larger "reform" of health care in the United States, which ultimately serves to shift the cost of health care off the backs of corporations
Malik: Freire Or Friedman?
Feb 11, 2013
For whom and for what purpose(s) does education serve? What does education actually look like?
Forman: Super-Sized Pay in New Zealand
Feb 10, 2013
With more than 4,000 members at KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, Starbucks, Burger King, and Wendy’s, it has become one of the most successful fast food organizing efforts in the world
Ferner: A Second-Rate Power
Feb 09, 2013
For most of us in this country, coming in second would be highly welcome, a real improvement over the current state of affairs
Feb 28, 2013
There is no harm in dreaming about something — unless the dreamer has access to billions of rubles of public money and has no qualms about using it