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When Will We Stop Cars – Scratch That – GUNS, From Killing People?
Laws that treat the chain of ownership for guns more carefully would end impunity for straw purchasers who funnel weapons to criminals.
From Growing Profit to Growing Food: Challenging Corporate Rule
Part 8 of the Harvesting Justice series.
Putsch: Iceland‘s Crowd-Sourced Constitution Killed by Parliament
Following its spectacular plunge from grace in 2008 when its banking system crashed, inflicting huge damage on foreign creditors as well as on local residents, Iceland caught attention for …
Shocking Rahm’s Shock Doctrine
Chicago teachers have beaten their anti-education, anti-union mayor before. And they could do it again.
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Chavez’ Legacy: An Interview With Camille Chalmers
Chávez believed heavily in creating transformative Southern power and a new unity in the South. One of Chávez's greatest achievements was realizing an active, dynamic internationalism that can create …
Police Spend Millions Of Hours On Low-Level Marijuana Arrests
A report came out showing the NYPD has spent over a million hours in the past decade arresting hundreds of thousands of people for possessing less than 25 grams …
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How the Monsanto Protection Act Became Law
Once again, the largest corporations and their governmental cohorts succeeding in sealing their dominance over our lives without any oversight, transparency or leniency. This time it concerns food safety, …
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Poor Folks Don’t Really Care About the Stock Market Rally
I fit in with the other 40% of Americans who really and truly don’t give a fuck about the S&P 500 andDow Jones both hitting all-time record highs this …
Democratic Rhapsody and Anxiety in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
“[Tunisian dictator] Ben Ali's departure on January 14, 2011 released a host of formerly unaired and long-suppressed grievances. After decades of repression, many Tunisians are talking openly across the …
The Rise of the Super-Rich: Is the Economy Just Going Through a Bad Patch?
So the rich are different. What's it to you? Quite a lot, if you see some of the recent analysis of the growing wealth gap.