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Occupy the Dam: Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising
In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the worldu2019s third-largest damu2014by dismantling it. Hereu2019s what they can teach us about standing up to power.
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Syrian Forces Pound Rebel Stronghold in Aleppo
With tanks and artillery, the Syrian Army pounded opposition strongholds in Aleppo on Saturday, stepping up its barrage on a city that for days has been steeling for an …
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Let Chicago’s Anti-Torture Resolution Inspire Your Own City
In June 2012, the Illinois Coalition Against Torture (ICAT) produced a
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Examining Capitalism Through Quantum Mechanics
Understanding the relationship between human beings and the quantum reality of the universe becomes paramount if we seek to truly understand and transform the social and structural systems of …
Barack Obama, Changeling
Obama is at heart a calculating pragmatist, especially when it comes to advancing his own ambitions. Many of his broken promises are due to his distaste for defeat.
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Anaheim Police on a Rampage
Danielle Hawkins reports from Anaheim, California, on a horrific police murder - and the angry resistance that this latest killing produced among Latino residents.
Austerity, Adjustment and Social Genocide: Political Language and the European Debt Crisis
Political language functions through euphemism, by employing soft-sounding or simply meaningless words to describe otherwise monstrous and vicious policies and objectives.
How Will the 99% Deal With 70 Million Psychopaths?
Did you know that roughly one person in a hundred is clinically a psychopath?
Syrian Helicopters Fire on Aleppo as Army Prepares for Possible Assault
Syrian Army helicopters fired on neighborhoods in Aleppo on Friday morning, activists said, as the army readied assault troops and armored columns for a possible invasion of the city, …
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Police Violence, Racialized Indifference and a Hunger for Justice in Anaheim
These latest deaths bring the total number of Anaheim officer-involved shootings in 2012 to six.