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Colombian court turns down political prisoner Liliany Obando’s appeal

April 15, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Obando is a sociologist and documentary filmmaker. A week before her arrest, she issued a report documenting the murders of 1500 FENSUAGRO union members. FENSUAGRO is Colombia's largest agricultural workers' union.

House GOP rams through latest devastating Ryan budget

April 14, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The House's ruling Republicans jammed through a GOP-written budget blueprint for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, by a 219-205 vote on Apr. 10.

Rwanda: the long descent to genocide

April 14, 2014 By Mark Waller

Rwanda was almost exclusively seen in terms of a grand narrative of African catastrophe.

Today in eco-history: The worst storm of the Dust Bowl

April 14, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On April 14, 1935, The "Black Sunday Storm," one of the worst dust storms in U.S. history, caused immense economic and agricultural damage

Galveston Bay: The biggest oil disaster you’re not hearing about

April 11, 2014 By Blake Skylar

Though smaller than the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010, when it omes to the amount of spillage the incident may grow, with everything and everyone from wildlife to workers currently paying the price.