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Is It Fear of Uprisings or Altruistic Punishment?
(Photo: Thomas Hawk / Flickr) If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who …
The Celestial Computers of Ancient Greece
The Antikythera Mechanism at the Boston Museum of Science. (Photo: davelin66) Just before Easter 1900, Greek sponge-fishers were on their way to the waters of Tunisia when …
Black Legislators on Frontline Against AZ-Style Immigration Bills
New York - As immigrant advocates battle hardline immigration bills in state capitols across the country, they’re receiving crucial support from caucuses of black legislators.
Surprise, Surprise: Iraq War Was About Oil
A U.S. soldier looks over the Baiji Refinery in Baiji, Iraq, Dec. 16, 2009. (Photo: Ayman Oghanna / The New York Times) Afghanistan may be the …
The Verdict: Guilty of Protesting the Drones
A MQ-1B Predator unmanned aircraft system takes off for a training mission at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada.(Photo: Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr. / US Air Force) …
A Curious Case of Elusive Extradition
(Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted: Viswaakshan Iyer / Flickr) Is it a strange case of human rights versus a “strategic partnership”? Is the much-touted special relationship …
Why Advocacy and Market Forces Fail Education Reform
(Photo: Woodrow Blettel / Sewanee: The University of the South) After a piece I wrote confronting Bill Gates and the market/corporate-based approach to education reform, I received …
Marching for Anzac in the 51st State
(Photo: Mel Green / Flickr) The street where I grew up in Sydney was a war street. There were long silences, then the smashing of glass and …
Dissent Continues One Year After BP Disaster
(Photo: Phillip Langer) Gulf Coast resident Cherri Foytlin still can't get used to being called an activist. "A year ago, I was just a mom trying to …
Israel, Extraordinary Rendition and the Strange Case of Dirar Abu Sisi
On a cold Ukrainian winter night in mid-February 2011, a Gaza civil engineer named Dirar Abu Sisi was lying in bed in a railroad sleeper car traveling to Kiev …