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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.
Dr. Cornel West: Greetings From a 21st-Century Prophet
“To be human, you must bear witness to justice,” West writes.
Gar Alperovitz: The Prehistory of the Next Possible Progressive Era
Gar Alperovitz. (Photo: Campaign for America's Future) At a time of acute pain for working people - when wages are stagnant, unemployment is high and levels of …
The Eros Effect and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview With George Katsiaficas
(Photo: Maged Helal / Flickr)
Thomas Pogge on the Past, Present and Future of Global Poverty
Thomas Pogge. (Photo: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Keane Bhatt: Could you begin by outlining the key issues of global poverty and why you consider its existence …
WikiLeaks: Saudis Often Warned US About Oil Speculators (Video)
Click here to read Kevin G. Hall's story. TRANSCRIPT: