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Unemployment Rate Drops Another 0.4 Percentage Points, Despite Weak Job Growth
The weak establishment data is consistent with the high weekly unemployment claims. For the second consecutive month, the unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage points, despite the weak job …
How Free Is Burma’s Suu Kyi?
The world has rejoiced in the Burmese junta’s release from incarceration of 1990 national election winner, Aung San Suu Kyi. She still can’t run for office or speak freely. …
A Marxist Analysis: Arab Uproar
Long time in the making! Long time suffering poverty, inequality, official murder-torture-imprisonment, despotism, fundamentalism, and governments lackeyed to US/Western powers.
How Does Their Garden Grow? The Bitter Fruits of The Iraq Invasion
Bet you haven’t heard how Iraqi agriculture has been destroyed since the invasion—and how US agribusiness benefits. That’s a huge story, and one you won’t see in the corporate-owned …
Egypt’s Islamists, Caught Off Guard by Uprising, Still Defining Role
Cairo - The Muslim Brotherhood, long relegated to the fringes of Egyptian politics, is playing a growing role in the popular revolt against President Hosni Mubarak but is still …
James C. Zogby | Limited Options in the Face of Turmoil
Across the Middle East dramatic events have been unfolding in rapid-fire succession, confounding U.S. policy makers.
Egyptians Defy Crackdown With New Mass Protests
Cairo - Defying a wider government crackdown, more than 100,000 Egyptians packed Cairo’s central Tahrir Square on Friday, chanting slogans, bowing in prayer and waving Egyptian flags to press …
Randall Amster | In Search of a New Beginning … Before the End
Undertaking even a cursory review of the news queue evidences the apocalyptic overtones in our collective midst.
Turning Over a New Leaf? The Chicago Mayoral Election and the Daley Legacy
Can the candidates escape the long shadow of the current mayor? Whether you fly, drive or walk into Chicago, you are likely to come across the same sign …