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Haiti: Aid or the Marines?
Although Haiti needs an exceptional international mobilization, Washington's assumption of military control there assumes some counterproductive aspects and is not without ulterior geo-strategic motives. Five days after the earthquake …

Haitian Radio Helps Keep a Country Afloat
Signal FM, a music radio station, survived the quake and is helping others in the aftermath. Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Radio presenter and DJ, Jean Gary Apollon, had just put …

The Voices of Participatory Democracy in Venezuela (Video)
A review of Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots

Six Deadly Chemicals You’re Carrying in Your Body
A recent biomonitoring study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, has revealed that out of …

Bill Moyers Journal | America’s Energy Challenge
Airtime: Friday, January 22, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings).

Jim Hightower | Reining in the Gods of the Fed
Here's a story that reads like the script of an old B-grade monster movie — and it would be comic, were it not so serious. The monster is named …

Corporate media or democratic media?
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E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Contradictions of Obamaism
Washington - It turns out there were core contradictions in the promises Barack Obama made to the country in 2008. They caught up with his party on Tuesday in …

Ruth Marcus | Facing the Political Realities
Washington - Since the start of his presidency, I've been wrestling with three questions about Barack Obama: Did he take on too much? Is he too hands-off in his …

GRITtv: Resisting the “Shock Doctrine” in Haiti (2)
The Heritage Foundation didn't wait very long after the earthquake in Haiti to issue its recommendations for Shock Doctrine-style “reforms,” and the IMF has already offered a conditional loan …