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Dean Baker | State Budget Cuts: Starting at the Top
The elite media are on yet another jihad. They are determined to cut the pay and benefits of public-sector workers who can still enjoy a middle-class lifestyle. The idea …
In Eastern Afghanistan, at War With the Taliban’s Shadowy Rule
Forward Operating Base Andar, Afghanistan - Midway through December, Afghan police officers arrested a man who had hidden a fake bomb near a government office in Miri, a village …
Egyptian Riot Grrls: Finding the Feminine Face of Fury
Much has been aflutter on twitter about the very visible presence of women among the protests that have taken Egypt by storm over the last few weeks, but images …
Despite Talk of Concessions, Egyptian Military Cracking Down
Cairo - Besieged by two weeks of protests, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's regime has offered once-unthinkable political concessions and started negotiations with its fiercest adversaries. Some things in Egypt, …
There Goes the Neighborhood
Big Win for Biotech: USDA Deregulates Monsanto Alfalfa
After nearly five years of legal and regulatory battles, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has fully deregulated Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa that is genetically modified (GM) to be …
Black Reality-Check Month
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take —T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution“
“Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution” Edited by Josh MacPhee, Foreword by Rebecca Solnit, The Feminist Press, $14.97 paperback
“Juggernaut:" the Standardized Test
Picture a huge, ancient chariot being pulled through narrow city streets, carrying a crude idol of a god. So massive is the chariot, citizens are crushed under its wooden …
At Stake in Egypt: Reading Gaza Mom
The danger of permitting the Egyptians democracy, rather than replacing a dictator with his (and our) torturer lies, let us be honest, not in the possibility that Egyptian politics …