Issue 670 | April 25, 2008
The energy wasted on campaign nonsense should lead us to ask the question the media avoid: Who are the candidates actually in touch with?
Sami Al-Arian is facing another extension of his incarceration--and has been forced to take desperate action in protest.
: Brian Jones I teach at an elementary school in East Harlem, where we recently learned that there are high levels of cancer-causing PCBs in our building.
After a seven-month halt on executions, death penalty opponents faced a setback when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection was constitutional.
: Mostafa Omar As strikes and protests play out in Egypt, one thing is certain: one of the pillars of U.S. domination in the Middle East is in for trouble.
A growing number of Haiti's poor have been pushed beyond endurance by price increases in staple foods.
Behind the 31 gleaming new Olympic venues built by China to impress the world lie repression and exploitation.
Proposed legislation on Mexico's oil industry could create for the U.S. an "association of capitals"--privatization, by another name.
Ordinary people, whether they live in Pennsylvania or not, have many reasons to be bitter about the condition of their lives and the world.
His history as a radical antiwar activist is the real heart of the "Are you now or have you ever been a dinner guest of Bill Ayers?" attack.
The U.S. political system creates an institutional arrangement whereby only two parties are presented as legitimate options.
: Brian Cruz and Larry Bradshaw On the surface, the SEIU's conflict with the California Nurses Association is about an Ohio union drive, but the issues involved run deeper.
Dockworkers voted to shut down West Coast ports on May 1 to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Vowing not to be intimidated by a wave of raids, activists are mobilizing for May Day marches for immigrant and workers' rights.
Teachers were among the groups of people who marched twice in San Diego to protest Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts.
Six student activists at Appalachian State University were arrested after a three-day sit-in at the administration building.
Some 800 people flooded downtown Philadelphia to protest the recent denial of a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The family of José Luis Buenrostro-Gonzalez are continuing to demand justice for this victim of police violence in Oakland, Calif.
Discrimination in Providence | Time for us to take a break | Obama doesn't offer a solution | Don't stereotype Iraqis
Without a critique of the war, the film Stop-Loss concludes with a supportive tone in the guise of duty to one's brothers in arms.
The journey of the Olympic torch has been a public relations apocalypse--with protesters holding up a light to the hypocrisy of the Games.
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