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Republicans On the Ground Keeping Ryan’s Budget Plan at Arm’s Length
Even as Mitt Romney and Representative Paul D. Ryan exhort Republicans to embrace their proposed Medicare changes and spending cuts, the partyu2019s rank and file is growing less enthusiastic …
About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War
“About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War,” is a book that should be stacked up on a table in every high school cafeteria, next to the vultures. Sorry, …
Disaster Capitalism in New Orleans and Haiti
As a native and resident of New Orleans who has spent three decades in and out of Haiti, and as director of an organization with offices in both places, …
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South Carolina Voter ID Law Takes Hits in Court
In a case that, under the Voting Rights Act, hinges partly on whether the voter ID law was motivated by discriminatory intent, the lawu2019s chief architect, state Rep. Alan …
John Cusack Interviews Law Professor Jonathan Turley About Obama Administration’s War On the Constitution
While many are critical of ongoing media circus produced by the Republican party, John Cusack asks the hard questions about what it would really mean to elect Obama for …
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Not On Our Land: Land Recovery Kicks Off in Honduras
Globalization threatens the survival of indigenous and small-farming communities all over our world. Carla Garcia speaks about the ongoing land struggle in Honduras with the Afro-Indigenous Garu00edfuna communities.
The Marikana Massacre: A Turning Point for South Africa?
Sometimes an event occurs that lifts the veil on a society and exposes its naked reality for all to see. Such was the case on Wednesday, August 16, at …
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Fairer Sex
While feminism has evolved with the social and economic changes of this century, the end game has not: equality for all women and the work that they do.
Obama’s “Twisted Version of American Exceptionalism” Laid Bare
Obama also wants the whole, wide world to get this through its thick skull: only rogue governments that implement a policy of rendition, torture, indefinite detention and extrajudicial assassination …
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Chicago City College Teachers Being Used as “Pawns” Against Teachers Union, Say Teachers
As the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) sets September 10 as the day it will begin its strike, another group of Chicago teachers say they are being unfairly pressured into …