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Two Easy Ways for Congress to Raise its Public Approval Rating
There are two easy steps our Senators and Representatives can take now that will dramatically improve the public approval rating of the United States Congress.
Landmark Decision: Judge Rules NYPD Stop and Frisk Practices Unconstitutional, Racially Discriminatory
In a landmark decision today, a federal court found the New York City Police Departmentu2019s highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional.
Municipal Workers in Bankrupt Cities Facing Financial Nightmare
An organized effort in the 1970s by what then was the extreme right wing has succeeded in making hatred of all things government, including government workers, a mainstream view.
Teenagers in Space: Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn, and How a Tale of American Triumphalism Was Returned to the Child’s World (Part 2)
In the new war play universe, you did need a scorecard to tell the players apart.
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Screaming in Bradley Manning’s Trial
The prosecution focused, with much less success I think, on depicting Manning as an unlikable person. Should unlikable people get heavier sentences?
Norman Solomon: The Nobel Peace Prize Needs Manning
Solomon discusses his delivery of 100,000 signatures to the Nobel Committee urging that the award go to Manning.
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Detroit Residents on Bankruptcy – We Have No Democracy!
More than half of Michigan's 1.4 million black residents now live under rule by unelected emergency managers.
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The Offline Wage Wars of Silicon Valley
Nona Willis Aronowitz explores the people and policies shaping the economic future of a San Jose that many cities in the Bay Area could look to as a model …
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Colombian Connection: Canadian Neocolonialism in the Global South
Canada's involvement in social and ecological injustices in Colombia often goes unremarked.
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Civil Disobedience as Law Enforcement
Future climate protesters can proudly proclaim that they are actually climate protectors, upholding the law, not violating it.