Politics
The words by the 2012 Republican presidential candidate reflecting on his losing campaign reverberated around the nation: “The Obama campaign was following the old playbook
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November 19, 2012 // 0 Comments
Is it any surprise that a nation founded on colonialist occupation is a complicit participant in the colonialist occupation of the Palestinian people? A central premise of US
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November 19, 2012 // 0 Comments
I have been an activist for over fifty years so I can safely say that I have participated in my share of controversies. I remember some that were particularly acrimonious.
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November 15, 2012 // 0 Comments
“We are not responsible for climate change—it’s the big industries that are,” said Abelardo, a young man from the Tseltal Mayan village of Amador
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November 14, 2012 // 0 Comments
By now, in these last remaining days before the election of 2012, we have learned enough about the beliefs of the Republican presidential candidate to see them as a worldview
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November 5, 2012 // 0 Comments
Even before the winds of Hurricane Sandy began to moderate, conspiracy theorists of a variety of bents got busy explaining the real meaning of the storm. Because, of course,
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October 31, 2012 // 0 Comments
Historically, television viewing has been used by various authorities to quiet potentially disruptive people—from kids, to psychiatric inpatients, to prison inmates. In
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October 30, 2012 // 0 Comments
It needs to be recognized that the reason comprehensive immigration reform did not come to be in these last four years, especially 2009, is first and foremost due to the fact
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October 30, 2012 // 0 Comments
If you believe that poverty is the domain of the comfortably poor, black, unemployed, unmotivated and uneducated among us, you have been sadly misled. Prepare to be
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October 29, 2012 // 0 Comments
Melina Laboucan-Massimo’s family has felt the impacts of an oil spill disaster firsthand on their Lubicon Cree territories in Alberta: burning eyes, headaches, nausea and
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October 26, 2012 // 0 Comments