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Why Organized Labor Must Stand Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
Spurred by real urgency over the corporate driven ruin of the environment, a growing social movement is taking shape that will be on display this Sunday, February 17, when …
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“The Injustice Files”: Racial Profiling Edition
Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp on three little-known cases of racial profiling, which proves to be a wrenching and enlightening journey through the lens of unequal justice in America.
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Empire Of Panic And Ephemera: Applying Rigorous Imagination To America’s Paranoid Style
In the consumer paradigm, one is induced to exist by Eric Hoffer's dictum: “You can never get enough of what you really don't need.” Wherein: The individual exists in …
What Caused the 2008 Crash, and Why the Republican Explanation Is Not Only False but Dangerously False
Basically, there are two explanations that are given for the 2008 crash: the Democratic one, which says that Wall Street was deregulated and ran wild with frauds that cheated …
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AP and Amnesty International: Are You Just Waiting for Him to Die?
Samer Issawi has lived for 33 years, 1 month, and 27 days. I hope he lives another day. He has been on a hunger strike now for six and …
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The Hubris of the Drones
Each innocent killed gives rise to second thoughts of the president's Nobel Peace Prize.
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Morsi’s Last Chance
Egypt is rapidly approaching its most acute political and economic crisis since the 2011 revolution that swept dictator Hosni Mubarak from power. Poverty is at an all-time high of …
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William Rivers Pitt | Obama, Boehner and the American Theater
William Rivers Pitt: When you're talking about a State of the Union speech, you are talking about theater.
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If You Speak Out, You End Up Here: Hassan Karajeh at Ofer Prison
Forty percent of Palestine's male population is, or has been, imprisoned in Israeli jails.
Lifting the Veil of Mirage Democracy in the United States
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers trace the history and institutions of a not-so-robust US democracy.