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Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All
Militarization is increasingly the sole method the global 1 percent favors to create and protect its excessive wealth.
Anti-Fracking Activists’ Secret War, With the World in the Balance
A loose network of activists is waging a guerrilla campaign not with improvised explosive devices or rocket-propelled grenades, but with zoning ordinances and petitions.
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Obama “Pivots” to Southeast Asia, Makes Controversial Trip to Burma
Activits hope Obama will take up human rights issues as well as economic ones on his visit to Asia.
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Door-to-Door Collection Reduces Waste in Hernani, Spain
One year later, the amount had dropped to 25 tons.
Truthout Radio with Michael Lerner: the Caring Society
Michael Lerner makes the case that liberals and progressives need to articulate exactly what they stand for in order to move the country (and the world) away from militarism, …
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For Obama, Four More Years Requires a Willingness to Look South
An embrace of Latin America is undeniably needed as Obama faces his second term.
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Detroit MC Speaks Truth to Problems of Ailing City
u201cThe Rise of the Turtle,u201d a new instrumental hip hop album from Sacramento Knoxx, is a shining example of the type of independent hip hop being released from Detroit …
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Torture Survivors Ask the UN: What’s the Point of Having Laws Against Torture if They Don’t Apply to the Powerful?
These four survivors are asking the U.N. to enforce its own convention, nothing more and nothing less.
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Repression Against Grassroots Hurricane Relief
The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has raised the question once again of whether post-disaster relief can help build organizations and networks that will create more resilient communities for the …
A Son Lost in Iraq, but Where Is the Casualty Report?
The day after Jim Butler learned his son had died in Iraq in 2003, a U.S. Army casualty officer showed up at the family's small ranch to explain what …