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“Best Practices” and “Exemplar Communities”: Ivory Tower Housing Solutions for Haiti
In a 2011 Forum on the Crisis of Housing in Haiti, a group of camp residents and advocates asked “grassroots organizations and all other movements to mobilize with us on …
House GOP Huddle With Lobbyists To Plan 2012 Legislative Agenda, Rep. Walberg Refuses To Comment
On January 21st, the two year anniversary of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the entire House Republican caucus traveled to a hotel along the Baltimore waterfront for a …
Bailed-Out Banks Won’t Create Jobs: What Next?
Lower Wall Street, New York City. (Photo: Barton Silverman / The New York Times) After more than four years since the start of the recession in December …
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt: Military Power vs. Protest
Egyptians immediately recognized vivid symbolism few others understood in the soccer riot that broke out recently in the coastal city of Port Said. First, the killing …
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The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose …
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Save the Babies: GOP Lawmakers Are Howling to Overturn the EPA’s Mercury Regulations
Why do the Republicans in Congress hate unborn babies? Yeah, I know they profess to love the unborn. They even consider them to be "persons" from the …
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Criminalizing Immigrants for Profit
(Image: Beacon Press) In 1947, after reading a newspaper article about the crash of a plane carrying a group of Mexican contract workers back to the border, …
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Deb Richter: A Cure for Broken Health Care
Deb Richter resolved to fix the health care system almost as soon as she began practicing medicine more than two decades ago in inner-city Buffalo. “I was very naive, …
Iran: War Drums Beating
Landing signal officers guide a jet onto the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the North Arabian Sea, January 4, 2012. Iran's military sharpened its tone toward the …