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[A longer version of this essay appears in “Food,” the Summer 2011 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.] …

“Have you heard anything along that line?” Rajaratnam asked Gupta. “Yeah,” Gupta responded. “This was a big discussion at the board meeting.” -The Associated Press, May 12, 2011

Javier Sicilia. (Photo: David Leonardo Gonzalez / Flickr) In an interview with Americas Program director Laura Carlsen, Javier Sicilia called on the U.S. government to change its …

A couple looks out at Cairo from al-Azhar park, February 15, 2011. (Photo: Scott Nelson / The New York Times) Cairo - In the months since Egyptian …

(Photo: Mark Ramsay / Flickr) Class struggle is like gravity: we can recognize it only through its effects. When apples or wages fall, the forces of mass …

(Photo: Joseph Cote / Flickr) As the ‘great recession’ continues, Economist Richard Wolff says failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different name. Now …

Over the past month, it seems that the news of a natural disaster striking a different area of the country has been a nightly occurrence. Whether a tornado or …

(Photo: NASA / Flickr) The purported end of the world came and went, and, to the surprise of few, the rapture did not come to pass on …

Washington - Haleh Sahabi is the latest Iranian woman to die in political violence. On Wednesday, security forces attempting to cut short the Tehran funeral of …

Yesterday in Baghdad, while on a congressional delegation visit, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said that Iraq should repay the United States for the war there that President Bush started …