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Connie Schultz | A Nation United in Ridicule
It's come to this, has it? Gen. David Petraeus is so concerned about the safety of our men and women in battle that he has publicly warned against a …
Explosion Rocks Honeywell Uranium Facility Run by Scab Workers
Union workers have been locked out at the uranium enrichment facility in Metropolis, Illinois for two months now after contract negotiations broke down over Honeywell's demand that workers give …
Labor Day Heroes
Let's pause for a moment this Labor Day to recognize some of our most important, yet most maligned workers. They're teachers and librarians, police officers and firefighters. They're bus …
The Spirit of New Orleans
No other story about New Orleans matches the efforts of citizens who took the initiative to clean up the mess left by Hurricane Katrina and begin rebuilding their city. …
Time Running Out Faster Than Water, Experts Warn
Stockholm - A major weeklong international water conference opened in the Swedish capital Monday with an ominous warning: time is running out faster than fresh water. If the "massive …
North Korea Releases Prisoners in Exchange for Humanitarian Aid
North Korea's release of a fishing boat and its seven-man crew in exchange for humanitarian aid could bode well for North and South Korean reconciliation. South Korea on Tuesday …
False Prophets of the Electronic Age
The Washington, DC, rally promoted by Glenn Beck and Fox News on August 28, 2010, has been called a nonpolitical event by Beck and others. But conservative politicians have …
Tom Engelhardt | The Military’s Media Megaphone and the US Global Military Presence
The fall issue of Foreign Policy magazine features Fred Kaplan’s “The Transformer,” an article-cum-interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. It received a flurry of attention because Gates indicated …
Racialized Memories and Class Identities – Thinking About Glenn Beck’s and Rush Limbaugh’s America
Racism today has been both reconfigured and made invisible with regard to its real victims.
Women Challenge Gender Apartheid in the Catholic Church
If ever there were doubt about the relationship between the Catholic Church's spectacular failure to address the clerical child sex abuse crisis and the church's glaring system of gender …