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Arrivederci, Water Profiteers: Why 96 Percent of Italian Voters Rejected Their Government’s Push for Water Privatization
Rome, Italy. (Photo: laszlo-photo) "Water—whether we treat it as a public good or as a commodity that can be bought and sold—will in large part determine whether …
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New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked
Tomas Rueda, of the Hispanic Republican Club of Cleveland, a poll challenger, monitors voting at a polling site in Cleveland on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov 2, 2004. (Photo: Andrea …
Revolutionary Law in Chiapas, Mexico: A New Generation of Mayan Women Plan Their Future
Zapatista women demonstrating in Chiapas, Mexico. (Photo: orianomada)
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Statement by the President on Certification of Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
(Photo: Lawrence Jackson / White House) Today, we have taken the final major step toward ending the discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law that undermines our military readiness …
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The European Monetary Union is the Titanic
In the past, I have called the euro zone a "roach motel". But as usual, I've been outdone in the metaphor design department by the Italians: Guilio Tremonti, the …
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Ray McGovern to Governor Brown on Prisons
Dear Governor Brown, I'm thinking that the Jesuits who educated you probably told you, as they did me, that Ignatius of Loyola required all Jesuits, including the …
EXCLUSIVE: The Deficit Is Not Default of Obama
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 11, 2011. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) …
A Story of the Earth Liberation Front: An Interview With Documentarian Marshall Curry
Filmmaker Marshall Curry. (Photo: Bill Gallagher) When John Muir formed the Sierra Club in 1892 and fought to pass the National Parks Bill in 1899, it is …
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East
In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans …
Prisoners Have Nothing to Gain by Eating
Prisoners risking death by refusing food in the Pelican Bay supermax, and those hunger striking in solidarity in prisons around California are a judgment of our sickness. "The degree …