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Chris Hedges | The Origins of Our Police State
Our failure to protect lower income citizens and people of color will recreate their fate for the larger masses underneath the growing police state.
Shocking New Research Reveals Obama’s Legacy Could Be an America of Aristocrats and Peons
Inequality experts Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez reveal the biggest gap between rich and poor ever recorded by economists
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Yesterday’s Internment Camp – Today’s Labor Camp
Laborers live near a WWII Japanese Internment camp and in not much different conditions while Congress debates migrant worker bills.
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Common Ground’s Eighth Anniversary: A Model of Volunteer-Driven Rebuilding in New Orleans
Common Ground offers a model of how volunteers of good will working with affected communities can make a difference.
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Monsanto Spends Millions to Defeat Washington GMO Labeling Initiative
With a $4.6 million check to the campaing to defeat a GMO food labeling vote in Washington state this fall, Monsanto is banking on repeating its California victory.
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Ukraine’s Gay Community Fears Russia’s Pull
A geopolitical land grab that would force Ukraine under Russian influence would have disastrous implications for Ukrainian gay men and women.
Defending Indigenous Lands and Waters in Honduras: The Case of Rio Blanco
A Honduran-owned and foreign-financed company has been attempting to build a dam on the sacred Gualcarque River in the Lenca community of Rio Blanco.
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Trafficking of Children and Women in India
End trafficking in India and the worldwide epidemic in human suffering caused by this crime will be greatly reduced.
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Taliban Attack on Afghan Workers Is Sign That One Program Is Working
The lesson is that this is no time to scare, away from development which in any event costs a tiny fraction of the cost of military occupation.
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Thank You, Anarchy: Notes From the Occupy Apocalypse
Jonah Raskin reviews Nathan Schneider's book ‘Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.’