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Sarah Schulman and Vijay Prashad on International Solidarity with the Palestinian People
With Trinity College Prof. Vijay Prashad, author of Uncle Swami and The Darker Nations, Schulman discusses the politics of fear, the Israel lobby, and the way some marginalized Americans …
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The Curious Case of Japan’s Economic Stimulus
Is Japan the country of the future again?
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GOP, Thomas Hobbes Rig Elections
Should we simply let the modern-day kings, the billionaires, run things?
Will China-Japan-US Tensions in the Pacific Ignite a Conflict and Sink the Global Economy?
Conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific.
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Digital MLK
If MLK Day 2013 taught us anything, it is that after the Internet, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has become one of the most contested of …
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Crazy for Guns
2012 made the record books for mass shootings in the United States, with seven incidents involving lone gunmen each murdering at least five people per spree. The grotesque Sandy …
The Endless Fight For Control Of Our Consciousness
It has been 200 episodes of Moment of Clarity and what have we learned?
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The Agenda for Obama’s Second Term: Full Employment and Fighting Poverty
Robert Pollin: President Obama needs clear goals in order to reduce unemployment and poverty in his second term.
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Dispatch from Greece: Meeting the “Antagonist” Movements (Part I)
I arrived in Athens on Christmas Day in the afternoon. As we strolled through the muted streets of Exarcheia, the Athenian neighborhood considered by residents and authorities alike to …
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Exterminating Shia Bedbugs
Years ago, in an airport in the Middle East I struck-up a conversation with an Arab while we waited for our connecting flights. In our ensuing conversation he made …