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The Death of Truth: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange
Corporate totalitarianism is spreading rapidly, and it's not just Assange or Manning they want. It is all who dare to defy the official narrative.
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Celebrating Mother’s Day and World Fair Trade Day on the Same Weekend
Celebrating Mother's Day and World Fair Trade Day on the same weekend has never felt better, nor been more appropriate.
A Penny a Pound, Plus Power: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Changes History
As Wendy's shareholders convene their annual meeting in New York, farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) are calling on the remaining, hold-out, major fast food corporation to …
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Pregnancy, Politics and the Policing of Women’s Bodies
The laws and policies that act to limit and legislate women's lives are intrusive, but they are also insulting and dangerous. They punish women and push an agenda that …
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Guantanamo Is Not an Anomaly – Prisoners in the US Are Force-Fed Every Day
The fact that force feedings are being discussed in the context of Guantanamo is dangerously misleading; it obscures the routine use of feeding tubes in American prisons.
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Somalia Accepts Assistance From Foreign Destabilizers
Somalia has a recent history of accepting assistance from countries that have helped create the problems Somalia must confront.
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Permission to Speak: Political Prisoners in Burma
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars.
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Sexual Assaults and Nuclear Missiles: What’s the Matter With the Military?
Robert Reich: Why has it been so difficult for the military to remedy its sexual assault problem?
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Economic Weapons of Mass Destruction: Mortgages in the Era of Mass Terror
Laura Gottesdiener: Almost no one openly discusses the ongoing foreclosure crisis in terms of domestic terrorism, but that's exactly what it is.
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Socialist Discussion – Visions of a New World
The struggle for structural reforms is essential to changing the “common sense” of the US political arena. But it is not enough to wound the rabid beast; one must …