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Despite Talk of Concessions, Egyptian Military Cracking Down
Cairo - Besieged by two weeks of protests, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's regime has offered once-unthinkable political concessions and started negotiations with its fiercest adversaries. Some things in Egypt, …
There Goes the Neighborhood
Big Win for Biotech: USDA Deregulates Monsanto Alfalfa
After nearly five years of legal and regulatory battles, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has fully deregulated Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa that is genetically modified (GM) to be …
Black Reality-Check Month
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take —T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution“
“Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution” Edited by Josh MacPhee, Foreword by Rebecca Solnit, The Feminist Press, $14.97 paperback
“Juggernaut:" the Standardized Test
Picture a huge, ancient chariot being pulled through narrow city streets, carrying a crude idol of a god. So massive is the chariot, citizens are crushed under its wooden …
At Stake in Egypt: Reading Gaza Mom
The danger of permitting the Egyptians democracy, rather than replacing a dictator with his (and our) torturer lies, let us be honest, not in the possibility that Egyptian politics …
The Problems With the Rivlin-Ryan Medicare Plan
Uwe Reinhardt has a post about the Rivlin-Ryan Medicare Plan, which would convert Medicare into a voucher program for people currently under 55 and also fix the growth rate …
Revisiting the Reagan Nightmare
“Now that he is safely dead, let us praise him.” poet Carl Wendell Hines wrote of Martin Luther King Jr, after his assassination. Ronald Reagan has been “safely dead” …
Clashes Spread Across Key Border Region in Southern Sudan
Juba, Sudan — Clashes spread across a key border region in southern Sudan on Saturday following a wave of mutinies among southerners in the northern army, leaving at least …