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Restraint and Hope: Lessons From Lake Baikal and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Something strange happened in the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1950s. During a period when both countries were focused intently on space, nuclear weapons, and post–war …
Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
Have you noticed that Lockheed Martin, the giant weapons corporation, is shadowing you? No? Then you haven’t been paying much attention. Let me put it this way: If you …
Understanding the Attacks on Public Employees
You can barely open a newspaper or turn on a radio without hearing about states and local governments bankrupted by high-paid public employees, their pensions and their unions. How …
Will Our Economy Ever Recover From the “Greatest Recovery”?
In a January 2009 ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos, then President-elect Barack Obama said fixing the economy required shared sacrifice: "Everybody's going to have to give. Everybody's going to …
Protest by Suicide Highlights Economic and Political Oppression in Tunisia
Mass spontaneous demonstrations erupted on December 17 in the city of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia when 26-year-old Mohammad Bouazizi doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire …
Lucasville Five Hunger Strike Begins: An Interview with Author Staughton Lynd
In 1993, the maximum security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio was the site of a historic prisoner rebellion, where more than 400 prisoners seized and controlled a …
Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock
While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – …
Wendell Potter: The Health Care Spin Continues
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews had a good laugh during a recent segment about the five biggest political lies of 2010. PolitiFact gave the top prize to Republicans and pundits who …
Top Ten Ways the Right Will Wreck the Recovery
Conservatives have a legislative agenda for 2011 that will hurt your ability to get or keep a job, your neighborhood's ability to recover from the recession and this country's …
Always Someone’s Mother or Father, Always Someone’s Child: The Missing Persons of Iraq
According to UN data, Iraq has the most disappeared persons in the world. Editor's Note: The following is an adaptation of a presentation Dirk Adriaensens gave at …