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The Politicians Who Cried “Crisis“
“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is a well known Aesop fable that offers a moral about the dangers of lies. While this tale holds a simple but accurate message, …
California Passes Landmark Anti-Human Trafficking Law
Los Angeles, California - Setting the precedent for the rest of the nation and the world, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 657 - authored by Sen. Darrel Steinberg …
Britain’s Budget Cuts – Will the Bell Toll for Us?
This week, the British government announced plans to cut its military personnel by 10 percent, scrap 40 percent of the Army's artillery and tanks and withdraw all of its …
The Long Walk Home: One Barefoot Activist’s Mission to Stop the Veteran Suicide Epidemic
His feet are gnarled and mangled from scorching roads and stubbed toes, with ripped toenails and sores on his soles. Sometimes bandages cover his open wounds, usually caused by …
Revolution, Survival and Poor People’s Human Rights: An Interview With Cheri Honkala
Cheri Honkala is the founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), a Philadelphia poor people’s organization that is widely known for its uncompromising civil-disobedience tactics—including housing takeovers, tent …
The Strange Case of Aafia Siddiqui
The world has heard the stories of many Af-Pak women and their distress as victims of Taliban tormentors, which US and NATO drones have done nothing to diminish. This …
“War Does This to Your Mind“
Kabul - Khamad Jan, age 22, remembers that, as a youngster, he was a good student who enjoyed studying. “Now, I can't seem to think,” he said sadly, looking …
Organic Gardens Feeding People From Argentina to Haiti
Buenos Aires/Port Au Prince - Neither hurricanes nor floods, nor the devastating January earthquake or Haiti's chronic political instability managed to wipe out the organic gardening initiative underway in …
Iraq: Hundreds of Civilians Gunned Down at Checkpoints
It was lunchtime on September 6 2008 when a pickup truck travelling down a highway in Ninewah province, northwest Iraq, met a US convoy driving in the opposite direction. …
The “Fringe Media“
“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the ‘fringe’ media.” -Ted Koppel