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This Week in Clean Economy: GOP Seizes on Solyndra as an Election Issue
The Solyndra debacle is proving an irresistible target for Republicans and their allies—especially as the election cycle gets underway. The conservative Americans for Prosperity, a group established …
Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide
“We need a wholesale revision of how a democracy both listens to and treats young people.”
Iran Plot: A Pretext for War
For many Iran observers, Washington’s latest accusations against Iran — implicating members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States …
Reagan and Guatemala’s Death Files
Ronald Reagan’s election in November 1980 set off celebrations in the well-to-do communities of Central America. After four years of Jimmy Carter’s human rights nagging, the region’s anticommunist hard-liners …
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Occupy the Amazon: Brazilian Amazon Groups Invade Site of Dam Project
Buenos Aires - Waving bows and arrows and dressed in war paint, hundreds of members of indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon invaded the construction site of the Belo …
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The Occupy Wall Street Victory: Filling a Hole in Democracy
The general scorn for the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS), now spread to hundreds of cities in the U.S., reveals a lot about Wall Street, the press, and the …
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Universities Burn – a View From Europe
There has been much writing on the corporatization of universities and other higher education (HE) institutions in North America. The writing spells out the danger of their conversion into …
The Public Intellectual: Cary Fraser
Articles by Cary Fraser on Truthout.
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NAFTA Is Starving Mexico
Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) became the law of the land, millions of Mexicans have joined the ranks of the hungry. Malnutrition is highest among the …
The Public Intellectual: Henry A. Giroux
Articles by Henry A. Giroux Countering the Right-Wing Takeover of the US: An Interview With Henry A. GirouxTuesday, November 28, 2017By Henry A. Giroux | Audio Segment Democracy on …