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Iranian Detention of US Activist, Journalist Nears Two-Year Mark
Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer, two of three American hikers seized by Iranian authorities nearly two years ago. Shourd was released last September, but Bauer and fellow hiker Josh …
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Third Prize: You’re Fired
In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin walks into the office of underperforming salesmen and shakes them to their core. He's the guy from the head office, and …
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America’s Disappeared
(Photo: meggesje) Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly …
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The Audacity of Free Trade Agreements
Congress could vote any day now to strike a new blow against already-battered U.S. workers and the unemployed. Committees in the House and Senate recently marked up …
“Unequal Protection”: Corporations Go Global
(Image: JR / Truthout) People, at the time, generally weren’t all that concerned about the fate of the world’s dolphins. It was the last week of June …
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Grassroots Solutions to American Crises: From Collapse to Action
(Image: PM Press/Estreito Meios Productions) Reviewed: “Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action” A Documentary Film by Sílvia Leindecker and Michael Fox. Published by PM Press/Estreito …
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Is the Obama National Security Team a Pilotless Drone?
A soldier from A Company, 1 Rifles is pictured facing the downwash of a departing Merlin helicopter during Operation Omid Haft near the town of Alikosi in Helmand province, …
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Refugees’ Descendants in Southeast Asia Prove Stateless Society Is Possible
(Image: Yale University Press) The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia Yale University Press, 2009
Honduras: Repression, Resistance and Hope
(Photo: John Lamperti) In Honduras, the repression of human rights, and peoples' resistance to it, are as old as the Spanish conquest. The current outbreak of both …
US Supports Bloody Regime in Honduras
Paso de Aguán, Bajo Aguán, Honduras. Local human rights and agrarian organizations have reported at least 42 deaths in the last few months alone in Aguán, with 14 …