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Broken, Not Broke: The Economy According to Richard Wolff
(Photo: Joseph Cote / Flickr) As the ‘great recession’ continues, Economist Richard Wolff says failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different name. Now …
Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: “Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power“
Bill Moyers, July 21, 1965. (Photo: Yoichi Okamoto / Wikimedia)
Hope in Afghanistan: An Interview With Malalai Joya
Malalai Joya. (Photo: AfghanKabul / Flickr) Malalai Joya is an Afghan activist, author and former politician. She served as an elected member of the 2003 Loya Jirga …
“War Is Just a Microcosm of Peace” – an Interview With Zainab Salbi
A recent Women News Network – WNN interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder and President of Women for Women International, which held its annual fundraiser luncheon in New York City …
Dr. Gabor Maté: Obama Administration Should Heed Global Panel’s Call to End “Failed” US-Led Drug War
A high-level international panel has concluded the so-called “war on drugs” has failed and that governments should consider legalizing substances, including marijuana. The Global Commission on Drug Policy is …
Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear Threat, US Could Be Headed for Iraq Redux
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility on April 8, 2008. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh recently published an article in The New Yorker that says …
How Peer Pressure Creates Social Change
People are rarely swayed by information alone. If they were, the cigarette industry would have collapsed when the first Surgeon General's report on smoking came out in 1964, and …
The Property Tax Scandal in the US
Seeking Justice and Police Accountability in Jamaica
In May 2010, New York prosecutors issued an extradition request for Jamaican Kingpin Christopher Coke – gangster to some, local hero to others. The search for Coke triggered a …
Dr. Cornel West: Greetings From a 21st-Century Prophet
“To be human, you must bear witness to justice,” West writes.