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Rasmus: ‘The U.S. Jobs Crisis—the Bigger Picture’
Feb 07, 2012
More than three years after Obama assumed office the crisis in jobs in the U.S. continues as the number one problem of the US economy
Jamal: Incarceration Nation
Feb 06, 2012
For the first time in nearly 3 decades, I join you, free from a death sentence
Street: Super Bowl Reflections
Feb 05, 2012
Why should the parasitic Fat Cats get to celebrate, preen, and gorge themselves without disruption
Podur: Professionals and Torturers
Feb 04, 2012
Why are elites and authorities able to rest so comfortably in the knowledge that in the final analysis, thousands of armed men will do what they are told?
Lipsyte: Four Reasons to Watch the Super Bowl
Feb 03, 2012
You need to watch this game to fully understand how jobs, religion, leadership, and healthcare dominate every American contest
Pilger: We Are All Suspects Now
Feb 02, 2012
Washington’s enemy is not “terrorism” but the principle of free speech and voices of conscience within its militarist state
Reyes: After Durban: All Talked Out?
Feb 01, 2012
The UN climate talks in Durban followed a familiar script of inaction
Cohn: The Haditha Massacre
Jan 31, 2012
Because rules of engagement are set at the top of the command chain, criminal liability extends beyond the perpetrator under the doctrine of command responsibility
Terrell: NATO/G8 In Chicago
Jan 30, 2012
We are at a crossroads and our choices are stark: global domination and the economic and ecological devastation that it makes inevitable or global community
Rasmus: GDP and Other Year-End Statistics
Jan 29, 2012
No wonder holiday sales were so poor, given the continuing decline in real wages and household income for the ‘bottom 90%’
Parenti: Free-Market Medicine—A Personal Account
Jan 28, 2012
The U.S. medical system costs many times more than what is spent in socialized systems, but it delivers much less in the way of quality care and cure
Kagarlitsky: The Left's Broken Clock
Jan 27, 2012
Someone once likened the political positions of the extreme left with a broken clock that never shows the right time
Bond: Steer Clear of this Climate ‘Ponzi Scheme’
Jan 26, 2012
Africa can do better than invest faith and state resources in yet another Ponzi scheme — the ‘privatisation of the air’
Street: Reflections on the Quadrennial Extravaganza
Jan 25, 2012
What you do or don’t do on Election Day is a tiny matter compared to what we can and must do together to build left movement capacity and presence
Billet: As Many Roles As People Make It
Jan 24, 2012
Interview with Ani Difranco on her album, the evolution of her own work, and her belief in music as a force for social change
Cantarow: Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement
Jan 23, 2012
By 2009, Dimock, a picturesque rural village, had become synonymous with fracking hell
Karr: Why We Went Black
Jan 22, 2012
Wednesday's nationwide protest of Internet blacklist legislation was part of a brewing movement to keep control over the Internet out of the hands of corporations and governments
Bennett: The Torture of Mumia Abu-Jamal Continues
Jan 21, 2012
Race-based policies of mass incarceration violate the human right of equality under the law and the right to be free from racial discrimination
Quigley: Working and Poor in the USA
Jan 20, 2012
Millions of people in the US work and are still poor
Feb 08, 2012
Why the fossil fuel industry fights so hard