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UC Campus Police Move in on Student Protesters
Berkeley, California - Dozens of police in riot gear descended on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza on Wednesday in two violent confrontations with student protesters that prevented them from building …
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Beating Babies in the Name of Jesus? The Shady World of Right-Wing “Discipline” Guides
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) There is a brutal movement in America that legitimizes child abuse in the name of God. Two stories recently converged to make …
How US Policy Risks More 9/11s
In a short piece entitled “The Human Toll of the U.S. Drone Campaign,” Glenn Greenwald noted that the population of the United States is kept in the dark about …
For the Corporate One Percenters, a Fifty Percent Tax Discount
Over a quarter century ago, in 1984, the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Tax Justice released its first in-depth report on how much America's top profitable corporations were actually paying …
Matt Taibbi on Russia, Wall Street and Prosecuting Corporate Crime
As a kid, Matt Taibbi’s favorite writer was Nikolai Gogol. So, straight out of college, Taibbi headed to Russia, where he spent ten years playing baseball in …
Washington Heights Residents Challenge Occupy’s Reputation as a “White-Led” Movement
Washington Heights residents marched 11 miles to Wall Street, challenging occupy's reputation as a “white-led” movement. On a beautifully warm Monday in early November, several hundred protesters …
Election Day 2011: In State After State, “Remarkable Wins for Progressive Politics” (2)
Advocates for labor, women’s and immigration rights are celebrating a number of key victories in Tuesday’s state elections. In Ohio, voters defeated Republican Gov. John Kasich’s controversial limits on …
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Election Day 2011: In State After State, “Remarkable Wins for Progressive Politics”
Advocates for labor, women’s and immigration rights are celebrating a number of key victories in Tuesday’s state elections. In Ohio, voters defeated Republican Gov. John Kasich’s controversial limits on …
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Occupy Movement Inspires Unions to Embrace Bold Tactics
Organized labor’s early flirtation with Occupy Wall Street is starting to get serious. Union leaders, who were initially cautious in embracing the Occupy movement, have in recent …
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An Iraq-WMD Replay on Iran?
The American public is about to be inundated with another flood of “expert analysis” about a dangerous Middle Eastern country presumably hiding a secret nuclear weapons program that may …