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Obama to Send 1,200 National Guard Troops to Border
Washington - President Barack Obama will dispatch up to 1,200 National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border and will ask Congress for $500 million to shore up …
If It’s Good for General Motors, Is It Good for the Rest of Us?
“What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” This is the most famous quotation never said by Charles Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower’s Secretary of Defense. (He actually said …
Meditations on Hip Hop: Of Disposability, Death and Destiny (Part III)
Destiny A learning process might appear … for the crushed, the forbidden-to-be, the rejected, that would teach them that, through serious, just, determined, untiring struggle, it is possible …
BPing the Arctic?: Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil to Do to Arctic Waters What BP Did to the Gulf?
Bear with me. I'll get to the oil. But first you have to understand where I've been and where you undoubtedly won't go, but Shell's drilling rigs surely will …
BPing the Arctic? Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil to Do to Arctic Waters What BP Did to the Gulf? (2)
Bear with me. I'll get to the oil. But first you have to understand where I've been and where you undoubtedly won't go, but Shell's drilling rigs surely will …
A “New World Order” Is Possible
This article was published in Fohla de São Paulo, Brazil's largest circulation newspaper, on May 25, 2010. The English version appears below; the Portuguese version is here Em Português.
Anti-Choice Woman-Hating Goes Mainstream
With this brief quote, the speaker, the Rev. John Ehrich, medical ethics director for the Diocese of Phoenix, deserves credit for achieving a twofer in a recently revived (if …
Making Latin America’s Cities Women-Friendly
Rosario, Argentina - "Violence against women is not only domestic, it also happens in the streets. Not having the right to feel safe in a city square or at …
Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform
We must take matters of education seriously if we are going to survive as a democracy.
News in Brief: Administration Backs Compromise on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and More …
The discriminatory “don't ask, don't tell” policy governing the presence of gays and lesbians in the military could be repealed, as President Obama reached a deal with key Democrats …