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In America, Innocent Until Proven Guilty? Not For Most People Who Are Stuck in Jail
The most common reason people are in jail is because they can't afford the fee.
Loathsome Wall Street Deficit Hysterics: “Blame the Old and Sick, Not Us” – Part 1
The austerity push by politicians, political operatives, and pundits of the last 5 years is the height of economic, political, and social perversity and stupidity.
Obama’s Not-So-Terrible Year
Though conventional wisdom says that President Barack Obama has suffered a terrible year in 2013, much of this analysis simply marches in lockstep with the neocon view of Obamau2019s …
Poison In Our Waters: A Brief Overview of the Proposed Militarization of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
The Marine's move to Guam is just one component of DOD's vision for the Mariana Islands.
Disgraced Former Members of Bush Justice Department Challenge Order Denying ‘True the Vote’ Intervention in Texas Photo ID Case
Whatever problems the Lone Star State has experienced with its voter rolls, they will not be solved by Photo ID laws.
Capitalism, Ecology and the Official Invisibility of Women
Accounting for the costs to society of environmental degradation is important, but it's also vital to account for women's under-compensated labor in a serious challenge to capitalism's profitability.
Can Childhood Trauma Shorten Your Life?
Doctors may be overlooking a significant risk factor in disease.
Youth Can Handle the Truth
This week we want to highlight some of the issues that are spurring youth to get active in their communities and what they are doing about them.
Snow Job About Israel-Palestine – An Analysis
The real world is much larger. It deserves a bit of effort to get an accurate sense of what is happening to it, and to you.
For-Profit Prisons: Eight Statistics That Show the Problems
As private prisons become the norm in the United States, it's time society takes a look at the institution and asks,