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“Lockdown High”: The War on Drugs Goes to School
(Image: Verso Books) Chris Steffner strode to the front of the packed audience, shunning the podium to deliver her sermon Oprah-style with a wireless mic transmitting the …
As Richest Pay Lowest Taxes in a Generation, Bachmann Would End Income Tax for 23,000 Millionaires
As ThinkProgress Economy editor Pat Garofalo noted last week, GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minnesota) has assembled a tax plan that would involve a massive corporate tax cut …
US Neocons’ New Overtures to Terrorist Opposition Group in Iran, Part 1
Tehran, Iran. (Photo: [ john ])
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Germany Says Creditors Can Be Shielded in Greek Bailout
Germany backed away Friday from a confrontation with the European Central Bank over a new bailout package for Greece, agreeing under pressure from France not to force private investors …
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Discriminatory Indefinite Detention Increases in Kashmir
(Photo: Jelle Vancoppenolle / Flickr) April 5, 2011, was the happiest day in 14-year-old Faizaan Rafiq's life. On that day, Rafiq was released from prison after two …
Spain’s “Indignant Ones“
While “Europe’s slow-motion financial collapse” – as Mother Jones magazine described it in a June 6tharticle – continues to unravel, Spain, like other European states continues to implement anti-social-neo-liberal …
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What Food Crisis? Measuring Global Hunger (2)
Last week, Oxfam launched its new international campaign, GROW, to fight food insecurity. The advocacy organization's campaign materials cite many of the statistics with which the post-food-crisis world has …
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Washington’s Deeper Immorality
While the well-deserved departure of Anthony Weiner draws rapt attention in our tabloid nation, the depredations of less colorful but more powerful politicians go unnoticed, so long as no …
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Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed
In a breathless story somehow presented as a groundbreaking revelation, The New York Times recently reported that the Pentagon is — shocker! — using all sorts of media channels …
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For Intrepid Journalists, the Most Dangerous Stories Hit Close to Home
Jyotirmoy Kumar Dey and Chauncey Bailey probably did not know each other. One covered the underworld of gangs in Mumbai. The other covered the black community in Oakland, California …