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Return Gitmo, Pay Reparations?
Washington is unlikely to acknowledge that it owes reparations for its crimes against Cuba.
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Climate Stories: Environment, Colonial Legacies and Systemic Change
Meet the people working with diverse communities to build a movement.
Swimming With the Debt Sharks
In the US, all debtors are not created equal. The depth of that inequality emerged after the 2008 crash.
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Moving On: The Logic of Slavery in the Reparations Debate
In Jamaica, British Prime Minister David Cameron made his answer to reparations loud and clear: “move on,” accompanied by funds to build a prison.
Killing Off Community Banks – Intended Consequence of Dodd-Frank?
The Dodd-Frank regulations are so lethal to community banks that some say the intent was to force them to sell out to the megabanks.
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What Clinton Got Wrong About Snowden
The former secretary of state attacked the NSA whistleblower without bothering to get her facts straight.
Nobody Breathes Underground: Ongoing Tragedy Follows Guatemalan Landslide
Days after the landslide just outside Guatemala City, the death toll is progressing slowly.
Henry A. Giroux | Youth in Authoritarian Times: Challenging Neoliberalism’s Politics of Disposability
Young people today are forced to inhabit a world where childhood is nonexistent, but a different future is possible.
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The Last Gift of Eduardo Galeano: Stories of History for the Sake of the Future
The Uruguayan journalist and historian authored more than 40 books, but his legacy will live on in our cultural imagination.
A Fight Worth Fighting: Waste Incineration in Puerto Rico
The people of Puerto Rico must confront yet another threat.