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Turning Over a New Leaf? The Chicago Mayoral Election and the Daley Legacy
Can the candidates escape the long shadow of the current mayor? Whether you fly, drive or walk into Chicago, you are likely to come across the same sign …
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The Last Gasp
“Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. … Violence appears where …
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Pogrom in Cairo – Where Was Obama?
Contrary to what we were led to believe - that the US-backed and US-financed Egyptian military would protect the right to peaceful protest - on Wednesday, February 2, in …
In Tahrir
On Tuesday morning I walked around Cairo's Tahrir Square, weaving through and around the thousands of fellow protesters, trying to get a view of things. The space felt like …
News in Brief: Protests in Yemen Remain Passionate, and More
Protests in Yemen Remain Passionate, but Peaceful
JPMorgan Hid Doubts on Madoff, Documents Suggest
Senior executives at JPMorgan Chase expressed serious doubts about the legitimacy of Bernard L. Madoff’s investment business more than 18 months before his Ponzi scheme collapsed but continued to …
Egyptian Protests Grounded in Decades of Struggle; Portend Regional Transformation
Tweet Egypt is throbbing with resistance. Cairo is cloven between the forces of revolution and those of counterrevolution. Hundreds of thousands of people - on Tuesday, February 1, well …
Noam Chomsky | “The Arab World Is on Fire“
“The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported on Jan. 27, while throughout the region, Western allies “are quickly losing their influence.” The shock wave was set in motion …