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Inaugurating Second Term, Obama Hints at a More Progressive Domestic Agenda Than in His First Four Years
President Obama vowed a continued fight for equality of women and for the rights of gays and lesbians, to push for immigration reform and gun control, to address income …
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Resisting Racism and Militarism in 2013
The time is so late, the danger so great, that I call upon all the forces which believe in peace to take a lesson from the labor movement, the …
Will China-Japan-US Tensions in the Pacific Ignite a Conflict and Sink the Global Economy?
Conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific.
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New Cuba: Beachhead for Economic Democracy Beyond Capitalism
Help bust the myth that markets mean capitalism for the new Cuba by sharing this article.
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FreedomWorks Putting Its War Chest to Work for ALEC’s Anti-Union Agenda in the States
The Tea Part affiliated group FreedomWorks, is supporting the agenda of other right wing organizations like Americans for Prosperity to support anti-union legislation.
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First Nations Logging Blockade in Canada Passes 10th Year as “Idle No More” Support Grows
Like Idle No More, in Grassy Narrows the movement is being led by women.
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Chris Hedges | Will We Adjust to Life on a Finite Planet or Continue Devouring Our Future?
We, like past societies in distress, will retreat into what anthropologists call ‘crisis cults.’
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Colonialism and the Green Economy: Villagers Defy Pressure to Forfeit Farms for Carbon-Offset
While societies in the Global North continue to seek offsets for their carbon footprint, one Chiapas village in Mexico refuses to be forced to change its way of life …
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Expanding the Realm of the Possible in 2012
In the fight for equality, many obstacles in 2012 have crossed over into the New Year; yet, the fight still continues.
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The Users of the University
For decades, parents, politicians, and business titans have tried to convince us that the best majors and the most lucrative majors are one and the same.