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Standing firm for Honduras
July 11, 2009The coup d’etat carried out against the legally elected president of Honduras on June 28 is meeting with worldwide resistance which is as strong as it is broad. Not a single country around the world is...
Read moreBig crises, radical solutions
July 10, 2009As the new fiscal year begins, the situation facing states is dire. This was glaringly illustrated when California was forced to issue IOUs for the first time since the Great Depression while it finds a way...
Read moreFantastic response to change
July 10, 2009We have gotten some great responses to the announcement last week that the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo is publishing daily online.
Read moreMcNamara and wars lessons which way do we go now?
July 10, 2009On July 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson, head of the Hayden Planetarium, Twittered, “Wondering how many who watched fireworks on July 4 did so because it's fun, forgetting that it commemorates exploding bombs during warfare.” That same...
Read moreIs the economic crisis over?
July 10, 2009Beware of talk of better economic times around the corner. We may be over the worst of it; we may have avoided a 1930s-type depression; but it’s quite another thing to suggest that we are on...
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