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America’s Questionable Motives in Sudan
With widespread allegations of fraud, voter intimidation, and the withdrawal of nearly all opposition candidates, the conclusion of Sudan’s elections is unsurprising. Receiving 68 percent of the national vote, …
Poor Help: Federal Legal Aid Vulnerable to Fraud, Questions of Conflicts and Intimidation
U.S. Assistant Attorney General Tony West hailed Maryland’s Legal Aid Bureau with a rousing speech a few weeks ago that equated the nonprofit group with great American poverty fighters …
Howard Zinn: “The Bomb“
The late Howard Zinn's new book “The Bomb” is a brilliant little dissection of some of the central myths of our militarized society. Those who've read "A Terrible Mistake: …
Rachel Maddow and Richard Engel | Getting Out of Afghanistan (Video)
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy TRANSCRIPT MADDOW: Nine years — nine years, nine conferences. Every year since launched the war in Afghanistan …
How Obama Wants to Protect Oceans: White House Unveils New Plan
The Obama administration wants to change the way America manages its oceans. So it has introduced a plan to bring all stakeholders – from fishermen to oil companies – …
Manuel Perez-Rocha | Misguided US Economic Policies Drive Many Mexicans to Come Here
President Barack Obama did the right thing by supporting comprehensive immigration reform that would place millions of undocumented workers on the path to citizenship. Obama even went a step …
Bankers’ Pay: What Economics Has to Say
The recent global debate over the pay of bankers has raised issues that are basic to economic theory, and to moral and political philosophy, simultaneously. One question concerns what …
Howard Zinn’s the Bomb
The late Howard Zinn's new book “The Bomb” is a brilliant little dissection of some of the central myths of our militarized society. Those who've read "A Terrible Mistake: …
Michael Winship | Don’t You Know There’s a War on?
A recent headline on the New York Daily News web site was blunt: “In case you've forgotten,” it read, “we're at war.” The story was about the deaths of …
COINTELPRO and the Omaha Two
In 2007, veteran journalist Michael Richardson began writing a series of articles for OpEdNews.com about Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, who are two Black Panther political prisoners known …