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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 …

Media is Growing More White. What’s the FCC Doing About It?
(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: martinhoward, Pengster) The increasing lack of racial diversity in the U.S. media landscape is becoming a hot topic and putting pressure on …