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Walking Like an Egyptian: Food, Farming and Foreign Policy
Egyptian civilians celebrate the marking of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation one week earlier, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, February 18, 2011. One week after Mubarak stepped down, thousands of Egyptians …
Secret Surveillance: Truthout and the ACLU on What the Government Knows, or Wants to Know, About You
Since September 11th, 2001, the United States government has been monitoring its citizens' phone calls, license plates, internet search histories, purchases, and movements in unprecedented and, in some cases, …
Gorilla Radio Interview: The Case of Dr. Rafil Dhafir
Dr. Rafil Dhafir is in his ninth year of imprisonment in the U.S. for the crime of sending aid, through his charity Help the Needy, to starving Iraqi civilians …
Will the New Israeli Social Movement Address the Occupation?
Protesters from the J14 Movement in Israel, September 3, 2011. (Photo: Eli Brody) Over the past several months, there has been a huge wave of ongoing protest …
Links Between Climate Change and Increased Social Unrest Unacknowledged
The thundercloud-like effect of smoke from a wild fire. (Photo: Greg Seitz / Flickr) In many respects, 2011 has been marked as much by the mayhem of …
Grounds for Common Cause Between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party? An Interview With Timothy P. Carney
Wall Street protest on September 26, 2011, in New York's Financial District. (Photo: _PaulS_) Last week, I challenged libertarian populist writers for The Washington Examiner, who had …
What Are Economics for? Interview With Economist Jerry Epstein
Economist Jerry Epstein. (Photo: David Gray / Flickr) Center for Popular Economics longtime staff economist and founding Co-Director of the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute …
An Interview With Henry Giroux: Youth Movement in a Culture of Hopelessness
(Photo: Jessica Lehrman / Flickr) A protest encampment near the heart of the United States' financial capital in New York City started out with a few dozen …
One on One With Rep. Jan Schakowsky: “We Are Not Helpless!“
Rep. Jan Schakowsky. (Photo: davidcharns) Rep. Jan Schakowsky's (D-Illinois) $227 billion jobs bill was more or less dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled House. And while she's …
Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman on Human Rights Abuses Enabled by “War on Terror”
Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman, one of three recipients who split the award this year, spoke in New York City at the Brecht Forum in September 2010 …