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Fighting the Black Anti-Abortion Campaign: Trusting Black Women
Sixty-five billboards were quickly erected in predominantly African American neighborhoods in Atlanta on February 5, 2010. Each showed a sorrowful picture of a black male child proclaiming, "Black Children …
Rumors and Pessimism Reign Midway Through Cancun Summit
Cancun, Mexico - At the end of the first week of climate negotiations under way in this Mexican Caribbean resort city, it seems a distant possibility that the nearly …
Hammered in the Senate, Democrats Must Negotiate on Tax Cuts
Washington Saturday was a picture of frustration and gridlock over government spending and taxes. But the lack of specific legislative progress also brought signs that the negotiating parties – …
US Execution Capital Reconsiders the Death Penalty
New York - On Monday, Dec. 6, a district court in Texas will be asked – for the first time in that U.S. state's history – to decide whether …
9.8 Percent: The Number That the Deficit Commission Left Out
9.8%! It’s still all about jobs. It's still an emergency. And the DC elite still don’t get it — or don't care. They give us a "deficit commission" not …
Revisiting the Politics of Social Change
The November 2010 midterm elections have unveiled the fissures in America to reveal a society suffering a loss of self-confidence and a fragmentation of its political system. The resurgence …
Peace With Iran: Two Petitions; Two Approaches
After a period in which defending Iran hasn't been very high on the agenda of most US antiwar activists, there are now two petition campaigns opposing war and sanctions …
Bienvenido Señor Ahmadinejad: Tehran
• Iran’s influence in Latin America, serious threat or paper tiger? • Rumors of Iran’s involvement have been greatly overstated
Military Heads Fierce in Slamming “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal
Washington - The top uniformed leaders of the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps warned Congress on Friday that repealing "don't ask, don't tell" now would hurt the military's …
WikiLeaks and Our Boorish “in Your Face” Diplomacy
While the mainstream media focuses on whether Julian Assange is a sex criminal in charge of a terrorist organization, I got a rude reminder of my own sense of …