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Rasmus: “Fiscal Cliff to Debt Ceiling Debacle 2.0”
Jan 01, 2013
Fiscal cliff (aka ‘Austerity American Style’) negotiations on unresolved matters will continue for the next several months
Paterson: Indigenous Resistance in Mexico
Dec 31, 2012
Despite the ongoing and historic repression directed against them, Mexico’s indigenous communities push forward in defense of their lands, their cultures and their ecosystems
Shiva: Growing Violence against Women
Dec 30, 2012
We must demand and get speedy and effective justice for women
Rasmus: Obama ‘Doubles Down’
Dec 29, 2012
Late Friday afternoon, December 28, President Obama held a press conference reporting on the status of negotiations on the so-called ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Zeccola: “Reconstituting” Pioneering High School
Dec 28, 2012
The program linked classroom teaching relevant to the students’ experiences to work and internships in the community
Zirin: The Year Our Sports Broke
Dec 27, 2012
“Sports are us, so political and personal that the yammering of most sportswriters and sportscasters may be far more dangerous than the posturing of the news clowns.”
Gottesdiener: Occupy Homes, Growing Daily
Dec 26, 2012
Rather than coping with the scarcity of the 1930s, the United States now confronts vast, unprecedented wealth and gaping economic inequality
Swanson: Doing Time for Peace
Dec 25, 2012
Hundreds of Americans, young and old, are regularly going to prison, sometimes for months or years or decades, for nonviolently resisting U.S. militarism
Schechter: Bankers and Conspiracies
Dec 24, 2012
Most of the coverage does not link all these financial crimes to the larger effect and impact they have had on the world
Brown: Surprising Stories of Resistance
Dec 23, 2012
It’s clear that many workers are willing to walk a tightrope, even if victory seems a long way off
Cook: The Matrix-Like Reality
Dec 22, 2012
Why the Washington Post killed the story of Murdoch’s bid to buy the US presidency
Bond: After The Marikana Massacre
Dec 21, 2012
LeeThere’s a word for the political direction in which South Africa is headed, and it begins with F.
Kagarlitsky: Between Gaidar and Keynes
Dec 20, 2012
Whichever side wins in the struggle to determine Russia's economic course, politics will play a central role in its implementation
Rasmus: The Well Orchestrated Dance
Dec 19, 2012
The Fiscal Cliff deal is already done. The dance is for the audience
Sturgis: Recession Takes Toll On Children
Dec 18, 2012
More than one in five U.S. children currently live in poverty, and one in four receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Olzen: Wildcat Winter Spreads To Chicago
Dec 17, 2012
The emerging labor uprisings are the birth pangs of a re-invented labor movement that is returning to its roots: fighting for the basic livelihoods of workers
Oikonomakis: Poverty And Social Exclusion Rising In Greece
Dec 16, 2012
Poverty and exclusion have exploded in Greece, while the government continues to assault workers. The question that arises is very simple: who benefits?
Kromm: Racist Roots Of 'Right To Work'
Dec 15, 2012
The origins of "right-to-work" laws find their roots in extreme pro-segregationist and anti-communist elements in the 1940s South
Sharma: When Heads Of State Start Lobbying
Dec 14, 2012
The demand is for legalising lobbying, following the pattern in the US, and thereby bringing in some regulations to make it more transparent
Jan 02, 2013
In Canada, more than one in five new admissions to men's prisons are of Aboriginal descent