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Unarmed Black Woman Shot and Killed by Chicago Police Officer Less Than a Month After Trayvon Martin Shooting
Rekia Boyd."Her death certificate says killed by police, but I feel like my sister was murdered," says Martinez Sutton, whose 22-year-old little sister, Rekia Boyd, was shot in the …
East Timor: A Lesson in Why the Poorest Threaten the Powerful
Milan Kundera's truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there …
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The Seeds of a Quiet Economic Revolution: A Review of Gar Alperovitz’s “America Beyond Capitalism“
It is not news that Americans overwhelming disapprove of the job Congress is doing. And likely, it's not surprising that two-thirds of Americans told a London-based firm, Absolute Strategy …
Zionist BDS – Kosher for Passover
History should mark March 18, 2012, as an important date on the road to a just and peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. That was the date on which …
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Ninety-Nine Percent Spring and Confronting Corporate Power
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 …
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Permit for NATO Protest Granted, but Fight Not Over, Say Organizers
“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 …
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Whose World Bank?
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 …
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Violence Worsening in Syria in Spite of Pledge, UN Says
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 …
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Beware of Austerity’s Vicious Circle
(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 …
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There Will Be Cheating: Another Gift to Big Banks Hidden in Obama’s Principal Reduction Strategy
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 …