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At this moment, we face an incredible choice. We can fight to win back the economy we had before the financial crisis. Or, we can allow ourselves to reimagine …

“Within sight and sound of the summit” was the demand of a coalition of anti-war activists, Occupiers and union members ready to protest the enforcers of the global 1 …

New York - US President Barack Obama's nomination of Jim Yong Kim for the presidency of the World Bank has been well received – and rightly so, especially given …

Syrian refugees, escaped from the Syrian-Lebanese border, at a safe house in al-Qaa, Lebanon, March 27, 2012. (Photo: Ed Ou / The New York Times) Beirut, Lebanon - Spasms …

(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) One of the key arguments made by the proponents of fiscal austerity, even in a deeply depressed economy, has involved …

If you ask a homeowner who has tried to get a government-certified mortgage modification from a bank, half the time you’ll hear a story of lost paperwork, incompetence, and …

On 16 March 2012, North Korea announced that it would launch an earth observation satellite named Kwangmyongsong (Lodestar) 3, aboard an Unha carrier rocket sometime between the hours of …

Along with “fivedollaragallongas,” the energy watchword for the next few months is: “subsidies.” Last week, for instance, New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez proposed ending some of the billions of …

Santa Monica College, a public community college in California, has been so strained by cuts to state education funding that it has had to turn away students, increase tuition, …

(Image: Melville House Books)The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel (Brooklyn, New York: Melville House), 2010; $18.95. …