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Railroad Conductor: “Railroading Has Changed So Much“
Brian Lewis speaks about his job as a Union Pacific Railroad conductor, which he has just retired from after 36 years in the industry.
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Accidental Hero: Marcuse’s “One-Dimensional Man” at 50
It is now 50 years after “One-Dimensional Man” became an unlikely central text of the '60s New Left. Its message remains ever more urgent.
Terrorism, COINTELPRO, and the Black Panther Party: An Interview With Law Professor Angela A. Allen-Bell
Professor Angela A. Allen-Belll concludes that the US government's multi-faceted response to the Black Panthers, primarily within the framework of the FBI's infamous COINTELPRO, was the definition of terrorism.
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Rot From the Sepulchre
How did the “best justice system in the world” allow two black men to spend 30 years behind bars for a rape and murder they did not commit?
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EU Popular Opposition to Israel Stronger Than Ever
The EU is emerging as the world's most significant political battleground for the trajectory of Israel-Palestine.
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Cease-Fires in Which Violations Never Cease: What’s Next for Israel, Hamas and Gaza?
This cease-fire is just the most recent of a series of agreements reached after each of Israel's escalations in its unremitting assault on Gaza.
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Misperceptions About Middle-Class Society
Americans are more likely than Europeans to believe that they live in a middle-class society, even though income is much less equally distributed here than it is in Europe.
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Corporations Screw Everybody
We need to undo the damage done by Reagan, and make US CEOs answerable once again to their companies, their communities, their customers and their workers.
Drone Firms Bought Influence at NATO Summit
Arms companies which provide key components for the drones used by the US to carry out secret strikes in violation of international law bought access to last week's NATO …
The New Realpolitik
The re-emergence of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and his latest book, “World Order,” has prompted accolades and resentments from across the political spectrum.