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The Racial Politics of Avatar
PART I: Avatar is being derided as another “white savior” film. It's deeper than that.

America the Traumatized: How 13 Events of the Decade Made Us the PTSD Nation
The Millennial Decade screwed with our heads and destroyed our national identity. Are we in for a cataclysmic century?

Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo
The weekend before Christmas, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo. In two previous articles, I told the stories of six of these men - two Somalis and four Afghans, …

Iraq Veteran Finds Sanctuary in Canadian Church
Rodney Watson is one of the bravest and nicest men I have had the pleasure of meeting. He is an African-American from Kansas City, Kansas. He is a very …

Jim Hightower | Six Things to Do in 2010
In my travels, I've heard many cries of despair from you good folks about the timorous Obama presidency. On issue after issue, it's been go-slow and don't-rock-the-corporate boat. "Where's …

Uncle Sam’s Signature
Since the November 29 electoral farce, Honduras's putschist government has been pursuing its work of normalization. No question of behaving like vulgar Pinochets from another era in Chile. The …

Obama Moves to Curb Federal Secrets
More than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents could be declassified as the federal government responds to President Barack Obama's order to rethink the way it protects the …

Sen. Reid Vows to Force Vote on TSA Nominee DeMint Blocked
After the attempted plane bombing over Detroit, the majority leader says he will file a motion to limit debate on the confirmation of Erroll Southers. Washington - Senate …

What Iranian Women Do in Hard Times
Another cause for dissent in Iran, and one which has forced many women onto the Tehran subway to hawk trinkets, is economic hardship. Tehran, Iran — The train stops …

Are Environmentalists an Endangered Species?
Rome - Way back during the first decade of this century, the Earth was roamed by a beast that will soon be extinct. Environmentalists, it seemed, were everywhere: at …