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The New Conquistadors Making Their Presence Felt at COP20 in Peru
Corporations causing social and environmental destruction in the Andes and Amazon are driving climate change, whilst enjoying influential seats at the climate-negotiating table.
Saudis Tell Shale Industry It Will Break Them, Plans to Keep Pumping Even at $20 a Barrel
The Saudis will keep pumping oil even as prices slide, and by implication, will force production cuts on others.
Guatemalan Genocide Trial Set to Resume Amid Amnesty Battles
Under pressure from entrenched economic and military interests, Guatemala's Constitutional Court undid its historic genocide ruling in 2013.
The Japanese State’s New Assault on the Victims of Wartime Sexual Slavery
A strategy to denigrate and discredit women who survived comfort station internment is underway in Japan.
Henry A. Giroux | Barbarians at the Gates: Authoritarianism and the Assault on Public Education
The emergence of larger social movements depends on public education maintaining its democratic sphere.
Thirteen Things That We Re-Learned About the Prison Industrial Complex in 2014
We are STILL in the era of “mass” and “hyper” incarceration.
As the US “Enhances” Military Cooperation in the Philippines, a Complicated Relationship Is Challenged
Opponents of a US-Philippines military agreement say it tramples on Philippine sovereignty.
“Employee Engagement” Is No Substitute for a Union at Volkswagen
What should we make of the latest twist at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant?
Green Neocolonialism, Afro-Brazilian Rebellion in Brazil
The Afro-Brazilian Quilombola people are resisting the cellulose industry in Brazil and working for a post-eucalyptus reality.
Unearthing the Truth: Mexican State Violence Beyond Ayotzinapa
Declassified files on migrant massacres reveal impunity and Mexican state complicity in human rights atrocities.