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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 / …
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Sprint, Free Press File Papers to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: mintz242, Thomas Hawk) Mobile company Sprint on Tuesday formally requested the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block AT&T's proposed merger with …
Zombie Politics, Democracy, and the Threat of Authoritarianism – Part I
The growing numbers of zombies in the mainstream media have huge financial backing from the corporate elite.