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(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) I'm torn between the pleasure of having just read a brilliant and moving first-person stream-of-consciousness account of a true story of one …

As every teacher knows, it is one thing to impart information; it’s quite another for students to absorb it, process it, and be able to regurgitate it. New research …

Arab Spring, European Summer, American Autumn and now the challenge of winter. Here in Kabul, Afghanistan, the travelers of our small Voices for Creative Nonviolence delegation share an apartment …

Demonstrators rejoice upon hearing that President Hosni Mubarak had resigned after 18 days of protests against his government, ending 30 years of autocratic rule, in Cairo, Feb. 11, 2011. …

Jill Korber walked into a drab police station in Queens in July to report that a passing bicyclist had groped her two days in a row. She left in …

(Photo: Emydidae / Flickr) I met Marsha Coleman-Adebayo in 1990 in Washington, DC. She was working for the World Wildlife Fund, an international environmental organization. Coleman-Adebayo was …

Washington - After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian had …

I’ve been watching the Occupy Movement from a distance these last several months, intentionally standing back so that I might observe the larger web of patterns shaping its unfolding …

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Washington - A senior Iranian official on Tuesday delivered a sharp threat in response to economic sanctions being readied by the United States, saying his country would retaliate against …