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From Charity to Solidarity in Haiti: Lessons for the Policy Makers (Part III)
Humanitarian aid initiatives organized by Haitian communities offer respectful, democratic contrasts to the multibillion-dollar aid effort of the international community, much of which is wasted at best and destructive …
The Personal Is Political: Q&A With Leang Seckon, Cambodian Freedom Artist (2)
Leang Seckon, one of Cambodia's foremost contemporary artists, will see his first European solo exhibition, The Heavy Skirt, opening March 31 at London's Rossi & Rossi gallery. Unlike depictions …
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Whistleblower: BP Risks More Massive Catastrophes in Gulf
British Petroleum (BP) has broken federal laws and violated its own internal procedures by failing to maintain crucial safety and engineering documents related to one of the firms other …
Murphy’s Law and the Stupidity of Obama’s Drill, Drill, Drill Offshore Oil Policy (2)
British Petroleum had a fail-safe system for it's Deepwater Horizon floating deep-water drilling rig. You know, the one that blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving …
A Fitting Memorial to Labor’s Dead and Injured (2)
This past Wednesday marked another Workers Memorial Day - a day when organized labor and its allies honor the millions of men and women who've needlessly suffered or died …
Tom Engelhardt | Obit Page
In memory of B.C. She wheeled into the coffee shop, pulled up next to me, and pushed a piece of paper my way. “Take a look,” she said. It …
Democrats Break GOP’s Attempted Filibuster in the Senate, but Proposed Wall Street Reforms Are Pretty Flimsy
The Republican Party finally acknowledged on Wednesday that they are unwilling to alienate voters by continuing to block even debate on Wall Street reform. The good news: Democrats do …
Protesters Confront Monster Banks, Demand Wells Fargo End Predatory Lending
“We are many and they are few — and today they have to deal with us!” yelled an organizer at a San Francisco march and rally on Tuesday afternoon …
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Legitimate Case Against Free Trade (2)
There is a myth in wide circulation that the superiority of free trade is simply a settled question on which all serious economists agree. The flip side of this …
Is the Sun Finally Setting on Climate Change Skepticism?
Over the last few years I've noticed something interesting about our ongoing climate change discussions. It used to be that logic and knowledge were the keys. We looked at …