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Wisconsin: beachhead in the fight for democracy
April 6, 2011The battle in Wisconsin, the epicenter of a labor-led popular nationwide uprising, is stoking the fires of a people's counteroffensive.
Read moreAfter 64 years, still paying the price for Taft-Hartley
April 5, 2011How did the landmark anti-labor legislation, backed at that time by Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon, come to be the law of the land?
Read moreFollow Jimmy Carter’s initiative on Cuba
April 5, 2011Former President Jimmy Carter's call for ending the U.S. economic blockade of the island and freeing the Cuban Five is a major breakthrough.
Read moreHumanitarian intervention or regime change?
April 5, 2011I was suspicious of the UN Security Council's establishment of a Libya no fly zone from the beginning, and events seem to be proving me right.
Read more“Miral”: controversial film paints Middle East mirage
April 5, 2011Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's latest venture onto the screen is a controversial adaptation of Rula Jebreal's novelistic memoir of her childhood and youth beginning just around the time of the Nakba, otherwise known as Israel's...
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