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Imagine if Every Day Were 9/11. For One Community in the US, It Is
On the day of the Swift raids, more than 300 US-born children came home to find at least one of their parents gone.
In Post-Election Honduras, Challenges and Opportunities for the Resistance
With a coordinated oppositional strategy both in the “halls of power” and in the streets, the anti-coup resistance in Honduras may have an opportunity to curtail the most egregious …
Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji: “The History of Materiality Remounts the Time of the History of Matter“
Some days before the official presentation of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Franu00e7ois Englert and to Peter Higgs for the theory of the so-called Higgs boson, Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji, …
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Food Security Can Come in Tiny, Wiggly Packages
It is known as the land of copper to the outside world, but there's another c-word that does a roaring trade in Zambia, albeit locally - caterpillars.
On the Front Lines of Class War: Why the Fight for a Livable Wage Is Everyone’s Fight
Recent developments stemming from “solidarity unionism,” low-wage worker revolts, and a backlash against neoliberal policies have shown that American workers are beginning to “rise like lions after slumber.”
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Holiday Greeting: No Peace Without Justice
There can be no peace without justice. At least five areas of blatant injustice warrant the urgent attention of people of good will: poverty wages, immigrant detention, harsh sentencing, …
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William Rivers Pitt | Laney’s Christmas
William Rivers Pitt: "Despite the grotesque perversion of simple morality that has so gruesomely twisted the fabric of life in America, we will someday prevail, and find a better …
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Ninety-Nine Years Ago: A Pause in the War on Christmas
Frank Richards remembers how Officers of both sides of a war came to an understanding that the unofficial truce during trench warfare on Christmas.
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Yes Virginia, There Is a Police State
Hyperbole? You decide if this is how you believe the police should behave when citizens are exercising their constitutional right to free speech.
Santa Claus Arrested at the White House for Minimum Wage
President Obama has the option to get the ball rolling on a Congressional minimum wage raise by raising wages for federal contract workers.