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Interview: Waging the Fight for Migrant Justice From Under a Border Patrol Truck
Raul Ochoa tells Truthout why he threw himself under a Border Patrol truck to stop an arrest.
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Why Chavez Chose Social Safety Net Over Skyscrapers
The late Venezuelan president believed people needed and deserved a comfortable baseline from which to survive and prosper, and he put that ahead of capitalist shows of his …
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An Addition to the Climate Movement-Civil Disobedience Toolkit
Local lawmaking efforts like those activists pushed through in Pittsburgh should be taken up on a much larger scale.
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Hugo Chávez & the Middle East: Which Side Was He On?
Most of the postmortem commentary on Hugo Chávez has focused on his domestic legacy in Venezuela, his wider regional legacy within Latin America, and what we might call his …
“Birds of Paradise Lost:” A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam
New America Media editor Andrew Lam has made his name as a journalist, but in his newest book, his past as a Vietnamese refugee reverberates through short stories about …
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In Death as in Life, Chávez Target of Media Scorn
Venezuela's left-wing populist president Hugo Chávez died on Tuesday, March 5, after a two-year battle with cancer. If world leaders were judged by the sheer volume of corporate media …
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SOF Troops Still in Wardak as Joint US-Afghan Probe Continues
Two weeks after Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded the withdrawal of all U.S. Special Operations Forces, American military presence is still active.
Big Bank Immunity: When Do We Crack Down on Wall Street?
Dean Baker: Don't shelter banks from prosecution. Use anti-trust laws to break them up.
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Fashion Models Shatter Stereotypes, Demand Labor Rights
Fashion models are demanding workplace rights and just compensation; while a tiny percent make a comfortable living, while the majority are in debt to their agencies, paid in clothes …
“October Surprise” and “Argo“
Iranu2019s ex-President Bani-Sadr, criticizing inaccurate history in u201cArgo,u201d says most Iranian officials wanted a quick end to the 1980 US-Iranian hostage crisis, but Ronald Reaganu2019s presidential campaign had other …