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Why Europeans Fight “Austerity” More Successfully than Americans
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Obama Deregulates GMO Crops Despite Supreme Court Injunction
Early this spring, while the world was distracted by Egypt’s uprising, President Barack Obama pushed the Secretary of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to deregulate genetically engineered …
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From Civil Disobedience to Civil Defiance
School of the Americas (SOA) Watch protesters in Ft. Benning, Georgia, November 22, 2009. (Photo: alexis.lassus) Over the years, I've been jailed numerous times. Each such event …
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Fighting in Yemen Capital Threatens Main Airport
Sana, Yemen - Heavy shelling north of Yemen’s capital threatened to close the main international airport Thursday as government troops and opposition tribesmen appeared to escalate bloody street battles …
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Diagnosing New Inflation Symptoms
It's been more than three years since the Great Recession began, and it's no longer debatable that the federal spending in its wake did not provoke inflation. Years of …
Protesters Pack Tahrir to Push Military Council on Unfulfilled Revolutionary Demands
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Blood in the Amazon: Brazilian Activists Murdered as Deforestation Increases
Early in the morning on May 24, in the northern Brazilian Amazon, Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva got onto a …
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“Young, Angry and Really Smart” Activists Challenge Rape Acquittal
Activists Savitri D. and the Rev. Billy Talen showed up, child in hand, to Friday's protest against the acquittal of two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, ready …
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The Truth About the American Economy
Lisa Stauber and her daughter, Aliaanna, one, with index cards she uses to track grocery prices at her home in Houston, on March 26, 2011. (Photo: Michael Stravato / …