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Javier Sicilia: “The United States Imposed This War on Us, It Should Change the Strategy“
Javier Sicilia. (Photo: David Leonardo Gonzalez / Flickr) In an interview with Americas Program director Laura Carlsen, Javier Sicilia called on the U.S. government to change its …
How New Is Egypt’s “New” Foreign Policy?
A couple looks out at Cairo from al-Azhar park, February 15, 2011. (Photo: Scott Nelson / The New York Times) Cairo - In the months since Egyptian …
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Class Struggle in Britain: Notes From London
(Photo: Mark Ramsay / Flickr) Class struggle is like gravity: we can recognize it only through its effects. When apples or wages fall, the forces of mass …
Broken, Not Broke: The Economy According to Richard Wolff
(Photo: Joseph Cote / Flickr) As the ‘great recession’ continues, Economist Richard Wolff says failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different name. Now …
Families Still Stream to Food Banks, and Budget Cuts Could Kill that Lifeline
Over the past month, it seems that the news of a natural disaster striking a different area of the country has been a nightly occurrence. Whether a tornado or …
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Is This the Way the World Ends?
(Photo: NASA / Flickr) The purported end of the world came and went, and, to the surprise of few, the rapture did not come to pass on …
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Paradoxes of Iranian Society Spur on Heroic Women
Washington - Haleh Sahabi is the latest Iranian woman to die in political violence. On Wednesday, security forces attempting to cut short the Tehran funeral of …
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Rep. Rohrabacker Asks Iraq to Pay US Back for Iraq War; Iraqi Spokesman Asks Him to Leave
Yesterday in Baghdad, while on a congressional delegation visit, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said that Iraq should repay the United States for the war there that President Bush started …
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Accused Sit in Jail as Military Courts Drag Feet on Appeals
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. (Photo: Matthew G. Bisanz / Wikimedia) Washington - Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Brian W. Foster served nearly a decade …
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At Least 21 Killed in Afghanistan Attacks
Kabul, Afghanistan - At least 21 people were killed in a series of attacks across Afghanistan on Saturday as a U.N. agency announced that May had been the deadliest …