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Malalai Joya Named Time Magazine’s top 100 Most Influential People of 2010
Published 3 May 2010 at 9:56 am.
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U.S., NATO, and Afghan forces are gathering on the outskirts of Kandahar in Southern Afghanistan to prepare for the latest offensive in President Obama’s “surge” strategy. The troops plan to secure areas around Kandahar, which has recently witnessed a sudden increase in insurgent attacks. General David Petraeus has argued that if NATO’s counterinsurgency strikes work, they will result in …
Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
Published 26 Apr 2010 at 10:24 am.
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Once a city heralded by the promoters of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Juarez, Mexico has now become a global epicenter of the failed so-called “war on drugs.” Just across the border from El Paso, Texas, the northern Mexican metropolis home to 1.3 million people has garnered a grittier reputation in recent years as a place where cartels battle for control, murders are rampant and …
Whither the Green Party?
Published 10 Mar 2010 at 10:51 am.
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The Green Party of California held a meeting this weekend in San Jose to address various issues ahead of elections scheduled later this year. Delegates gathered as candidates hoped to capitalize on widespread voter disaffection to grow the party’s ranks. A Field Poll released in late January showed just sixteen percent of Californians approve of the job that the State Legislature …
Clinton Bungles Latin America Tour
Published 8 Mar 2010 at 11:02 am.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up a week long tour of Latin America last week and while she was not greeted with protests and riots like President George W Bush had been in 2005, many in Latin America acknowledge that the Obama administration seems to be continuing Bush’s policies in the region. A major part of Clinton’s trip focused on …
Economic Report Warns New Financial Crisis Inevitable
Published 4 Mar 2010 at 11:02 am.
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A new report by a group of prominent economists this week warned that banks are still engaged in high-risk investing activity that is making another, potentially bigger financial crisis not only likely, but inevitable. The group includes Rob Johnson of the United Nations Commission of Experts on Finance, plus Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel to oversee the bank …
Andrej Grubacic on Organizing in the Age of Obama
Published 25 Jan 2010 at 9:01 am.
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A new poll by USA Today and Gallup found that a majority of Americans want President Obama and the Democrats to suspend their work on the healthcare bill and consider alternatives being suggested by the Republican Party. With the late Senator Kennedy’s seat being lost to Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts this week, the political landscape is looking grim for …
Inside Obama’s Brain - Part 2
Published 8 Jan 2010 at 10:56 am.
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President Obama started 2010 with only a 50% job approval rating, down 18% from a year ago when he took office. More than three quarters of the non-white population still has a high opinion of him, compared to only 41% of whites. Similarly younger women are more likely to like what the president is doing at 58% compared to 55% of …
Inside Obama’s Brain - Part 1
Published 7 Jan 2010 at 10:43 am.
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As progressives survey President Obama’s first year in office with mounting dismay, Sasha Abramsky’s new book, Inside Obama’s Brain, attempts to understand the man behind the hype, through a careful analysis of publicly available documents and interviews with family and friends. Abramsky has written many books including “American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Ageof Mass Imprisonment,” “Breadline USA: …
Report Finds U.S. Death Penalty in Decline
Published 21 Dec 2009 at 10:38 am.
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A new study released Friday has found the death penalty system in the United States to be in decline over the past decade. In the end of the year report compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center, death sentences handed down across the nation reportedly reached an all-time low since 1976 when the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated executions. In total, …
The Tyranny of Oil
Published 18 Dec 2009 at 10:54 am.
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Iraq recently held an international auction to run its oil fields, awarding contracts to companies like Royal Dutch Shell, and Russia’s Lukoil. As representatives of nearly two hundred nations, and over a hundred thousand climate justice activists wrap up the final day of a 2 week meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark on global warming, the auction winners in Iraq have promised to …
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