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The Forever Drug War: Inside the Mexican Drug Wars Quickly Consuming a Nation
[This report appears in the Spring 2010 issue of World Policy Journal and is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine.]
March to Fulfill the Dream
Last Sunday marked the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, cutting short his dream. But it also marked the launch of …
Putting Lakoff’s Work in a Larger Context
In applying to political discourse the scientific discoveries of how concepts are embodied in our brains, George Lakoff and his associates have made an important contribution to how we …
Author Louise Erdrich
Airtime: Friday, April 9, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here).
Bill Moyers Journal | Author Louise Erdrich
Airtime: Friday, April 9, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here).
Truthout | News in Brief (4)
The Washington Post reports that at least 200 people were buried under mounds of mud and feared dead on Thursday after a slum built atop a former landfill let …
Seven AGs Urge Congress to Preserve States’ Greenhouse Gas Authority
Seven more state attorneys general jumped into the climate debate this week, this time arguing that any climate legislation must preserve the progress that states have made so far …
Film Brings Anti-Apartheid Movement to Life
In 1996, only two years after Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected president of South Africa, acclaimed filmmaker Connie Field began working on an epic seven-part documentary series …
Score One for Moscow in Kyrgyz Unrest
New York - The conspiracy mongers should be having a field day. Just a few months before the expiration of a fragile agreement granting the U.S. military access to …
Cover-Ups to Protect US Murders in Afghanistan Continue Unabated
So, finally the truth comes out ... sort of. After initially claiming that two pregnant women and a teenage girl killed in a US Special Forces raid on an …