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Europe Must Change in Order Not to Implode
French Title: L'Europe Doit Changer Pour Ne Pas Imploser Another European summit is to take place on May 10th. Confronted with the risk of a crash, the need …
Hammering Out a Contract: Exploiting Low-Paid Workers at a Vo-Tech School
Art Welch, the in-school suspension supervisor at the Columbia-Montour Area Vocational Technical School (Vo-Tech) in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, earns $8 an hour, only 75 cents above minimum wage. In the …
News in Brief: US Reveals Size of Nuclear Arsenal and More …
Reuters reported on the United States disclosure of the current size of its nuclear arsenal, numbers which used to be secret to bolster nonproliferation efforts. According to the Pentagon, …
Crazy? Stupid? Tea Party Supporters Are Neither
They're the kooks, the wing nuts, the fringe of American politics — a tiny but vocal and overexposed remnant of the tattered quilt of conservatism. This is how too …
Can Brazil Save the World From War With Iran?
Sao Paulo - For the last several decades, fundamental international issues of war and peace have been largely determined by a small group of countries, especially the five permanent …
Demonizing Iran: Media Beating War Drums
Last month, The Wall Street Journal had a lead story about Israeli planning to possibly “go it alone” in an attack on Iran if the US were not to …
Corporate Bombs Demand Justice Too
More GRITtv President Barack Obama said Sunday that his administration and law enforcement officials are investigating who is responsible for a bombing attempt in New York City's Times Square …
Things Fall Apart
“Things fall apart,” William Butler Yeats wrote. "The center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence …
From Vietnam to Iran and the March of Either/Or Thinking
On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh, the most important and popular leader in the French colony of Indochina, announced the creation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. After …
Invest in Women to Halve Africa’s Hunger
Nairobi, Kenya - Over 200 million additional people have been pushed into hunger in the past three years as a result of the food and financial crises. The U.N. …