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US Occupy movement has lost momentum: Shamus Cooke explains why
Meanwhile, Occupy Movements in Europe and elsewhere surge ahead. Why the difference? FROM OUR ARCHIVES Shamus Cooke “A healthy debate has finally gripped the Occupy Movement: there is now a discussion...
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Classic Chomsky: Uprisings
Noam Chomsky: Global Democratic Uprisings and New Challenges to US Empire Friday, 08 February 2013 Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, Metropolitan Books | Book Excerpt ••••••• Noam Chomsky. (Photo:...
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ARCHIVES: Timely CIA/Iran Propaganda Film: “Argo”
Editor’s Note: We take pleasure in presenting this commentary on the movie ARGO filed by our colleague Dany Schechter last year. Not entirely surprising to us, most of what he says in this piece has...
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Exploiting Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones
ARCHIVES— Originally posted: February 25, 2010 Editor’s Note: Recent earthquakes in Haiti, Iran, Turkey , China, Japan, Mexico, Chile, etc., remind us that even in our highly technological age, man is...
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OpEds: The More it Changes…The Myth of Technological Infallibility
Archives—Articles of lasting interest you should have read when they came out but missed. Click on the image to see it in greater detail. (Courtesy: Greenpeace) By Roger Witherspoon, Energy Matters...
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The Real Gatsby
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Has anything changed? Report on Mexican ‘Dirty War’ Details Abuse by Military
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Pertinent Essays: The Center Will Not Hold
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How doctors choose to die
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Mark Twain on the Mormons
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US Occupy movement has lost momentum: Shamus Cooke explains why
Meanwhile, Occupy Movements in Europe and elsewhere surge ahead. Why the difference? FROM OUR ARCHIVES Shamus Cooke “A healthy debate has finally gripped the Occupy Movement: there is now a discussion...
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Politigraphy: The people in arms
The commander of a Soviet infantry battalion, Major Romanenko (seated, center), tells Serbian civilians about the military affairs of a very young scout, Corporal Vitya Zhavoronok (left). In 1941 Vitya...
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The Mill Hill, Natural Communism, and the Loray Mill Strikes
PERRY MILLER There are no less than six books on the Gastonia Loray Mill strike of 1929. There are scores of papers, hundreds of opinions and a common conception that although the strike itself was a...
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America’s “Progressive Nightmare” Voting—argues the author—actually ends up legitimating the rule of what is by now a morally bankrupt plutocracy driving the nation and the world to chaos, planetary...
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ARCHIVES— Originally posted: February 25, 2010 Editor’s Note: Recent earthquakes in Haiti, Iran, Turkey , China, Japan, Mexico, Chile, etc., remind us that even in our highly technological age, man is...
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Archives—Articles of lasting interest you should have read when they came out but missed. By Roger Witherspoon, Energy Matters The unfolding events in the Gulf of Mexico underscore the importance of...
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