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Different Drummers: indigenous rights and corporate free trade in South America

January 27, 2008

Indigenous rights renewal in Latin America flourishes in some quarters, but there are many reminders of the continued misery of first peoples at the hands of propertied and commercial classes. In Brazil, especially in Mato Grosso...

China, Cuba by the numbers

January 27, 2008

Public health statistics reflect overall social well being. Educational levels, nutrition, housing, preventative health care, access to urgent care, and hopes for a decent life are all big factors in what overall health looks like. That...

New Jersey apologizes for slavery

January 26, 2008 By Norman Markowitz

New Jersey recently became the first Northern state to issue an apology for slavery, which claimed the lives of millions of African people “imported” to North America since the 17th century. In 1865, when slavery was...

Lets not bomb Iran

January 26, 2008

Iran has a lot more oil than we have in the U.S. We envy them that. However, that does not make them an evil empire as President Bush indicated several years ago. The fact that Iranians...

LETTERS: Jan. 26

January 25, 2008

Cost of war What taxpayers are spending for the Iraq war this year: $155.5 billion. What $155.5 billion could pay for: health care for 44,330,909 people. Source: National Priorities Project Torture This is a highly tardy...