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Move Your Money, Change the System
Occupy LA - November 5, 2011, Bank Transfer Day. (Photo: too many jennifers) Inspired by the Occupy movements around the country, nearly two-thirds of a million Americans …
Ex-Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Greece’s Fiscal Crisis and Why He Backs Occupy Movement
In an exclusive interview, we speak with former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, who is attending the U.N. climate change summit in Durban, South Africa. Papandreou was forced to …
What Israel’s War Against Iran Would Look Like
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gants confer at a press conference on March 16, 2011. (Photo: Rina Castelnuovo / The …
Don’t Embarrass My Moneyed Friends! As Fundraising for Congress Goes Up, Hearings Go Down
Herbert J. Miller Jr., standing, at the Senate Watergate hearings with his client, Richard Moore, in 1973. (Photo: Mike Lien / The New York Times) For people …
Occupy Wall Street Hunger Strikers
Diego Ibanez turned 23 in jail. "It was wonderful. It was for a Times Square march. Going to jail with a lot of comrades and mic checking and singing …
The US National Security Smokescreen
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, at a news conference during a court appearance for an extradition request, in London, February 24, 2011. (Photo: Andrew Testa / The New York …
The Wars of the One Percent
America’s wars are remote. They’re remote from us geographically, remote from us emotionally (unless you’re serving in the military or have a close relative or friend who serves), and …
At Durban Talks, Government Officials Fiddle as Planet Burns
Demonstrators gather near the International Conference Center, where the Durban Climate Change conference is held on December 2, 2011. (Photo: Ainhoa Goma / Oxfam) The image of …
Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons: An interview With Victoria Law
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Israel May Ban Women Singing in Public
Men in the Israeli army are forced to endure an incredible pain. They actually have to hear women singing in public. Are you shocked, shocked? Ultra-orthodox rabbis in Israel …