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Occupying Democracy: A Moral Revolution for Social Justice
Protesters march on the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) The moral principle …
How Mossad Justified Its Murder of an Innocent Iranian Electrical Engineer
Ali Larijani, senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei. (Photo: Lynsey Addario / The New York Times) On July 23, 2011, a 35-year-old Iranian electrical engineering …
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Plan to Cut Benefits for Injured Federal Workers Stirs Concern
In the space of a minute, federal prison worker Jason Unwin was twice attacked by a furious, muscle-bound inmate on Dec. 21, 2010. …
Court Rejects Voter Suppression Efforts
Almost 47 years to the day after a peaceful voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, ended in violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a federal court in Philadelphia struck …
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Not All Labor Leaders Happy With AFL-CIO’s Obama Endorsement
Last May, AFL-CIO President Trumka declared labor’s political independence by pledging to use the power of Super PACS to reach out to nonunion voters and build labor's own political …
Bribing Israel
The bully came to Washington. The American president told him in no uncertain terms that the United States would not support a military attack on Iran at this moment. …
Fukushima in Light of Minamata
Japan is still struggling to deal with the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, and will be for a long time. This makes the triple disaster of March 11, 2011 …
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Five Right-Wing Violations Against Women That We Must Crush
Johnny Brekeen, a truck driver who helped gather signatures to put proposition 26 on the ballot, steps out of his truck after handing out pamphlets at the University of …
Frances Fox Piven Scorns Death Threats, Says of Right-Wing Attacks: “I Love It“
(Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) For most of her life, Frances Fox Piven has worked as a professor of social sciences and activist far away from public …