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To Live Within Our Means, Let’s Leave Iraq as We Promised
The Senate and the Roman People have declared that the US government is spending too much money. We have to live within our means. Difficult choices lie ahead. We …

How to Deal With Iran’s Influence in Iraq
Iraqi border guards look out from Shulha al-Alghwat border fort on the Iraq-Iran border on April 1, 2010. Training Iraqis to guard their border is one of the last …

Chile’s Student Rebels: Views From the Trenches
Protesters outside the University of Chiless main building, August 8. (Photo: Fernando Mandujano) Radio Toma, loosely translated as “Occupation Radio,” broadcasts non-stop information about the protests being …

The Drug-War Femicides
(Image: JR / Truthout) Barcelona - The number of women murdered is increasing in most of Central America and Mexico. In some countries, such as Honduras, the …

The Verizon Strike as the Next Wisconsin
Verizon workers on strike on August 9. (Photo: modernsara) The picket lines are up. This past weekend 45,000 Verizon workers on the East Coast, represented by the …

Could Unspent Stimulus Money Be Used to Fend Off a New Recession?
(Photo: 427) The nation's top economists are already giving odds on a double-dip recession. The Federal Reserve has only a few bullets left in its gun. And …

Israeli Tent Protests Ignore Link Between Neoliberalism, Occupation
A child amidst a makeshift tent camp during a demonstration in Jerusalem, July 31, 2011. (Photo: Rina Castelnuovo / The New York Times) It started in mid-July, …

Quick Retribution in London Threatens Due Process for Thousands
As some Londoners exhale during a lull in the riots that have raged throughout the United Kingdom since Saturday night, others, particularly young Britons of color, face the hasty, …

Will Tax Breaks for the Wealthy Trump the Common Good?: Choices Still to Be Made in the New Debt Deal
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner during a meeting with Congressional leaders concerning the nation's debt ceiling, in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington …

The Macroeconomics of London Riots
Riot police responding to protesters in Croydon, London, August 8. (Photo: tgeasland) London - The riots that surged across England in recent days will have sociologists scratching …