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“I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.”
Malcolm X
The Long Rap Sheet of New Orleans Cops
by Jordan Flaherty
July 22, 2010
Revelations of police violence and corruption shake New Orleans. Read more
The Economic Crunch We're in: Corporations Want Fewer Workers, But Need Everyone to Be Cosumers
by Robert Parry
July 19, 2010
[Employers are] waiting for consumer demand to pick up, which isn't happening because many Americans don't have jobs or are afraid of losing theirs. Read more
Treat Reckless Corporate Behavior like Drunk-Driving
by Dean Baker
July 14, 2010
Do we give a get a "get out of jail free" card to people when they are wearing the hat of a top corporate executive? Read more
Justice Dept Draws a Line in Arizona's Sand
by William Fisher
July 09, 2010
30 jurisdictions across the nation enacted resolutions condemning Arizona's law, joined a national boycott of Arizona, or instituted travel bans. Read more
by Howard Zinn
July 04, 2010
On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
Read more
Questions for Supreme Court Nominee Kagan
by Ralph Nader
June 30, 2010
Do you believe that for-profit corporations should have First Amendment political speech rights identical to those of humans? Read more
by Jonathan Cook
June 28, 2010
It was designed and continues to be “collective punishment” of the people of Gaza for electing the wrong rulers. Helpfully, international law defines the status of Israel’s policy: it is a crime against humanity. Read more
American Businesses Kill 14 Workers Every Day as the Corporate Media Yawn
by Tom O'Connor
June 23, 2010
The problem is not a technical one of chemical concentrations, safe machinery, and ventilation, but a political one—simply put, our national system for enforcing health and safety regulations in the workplace is broken. Read more
by Dave Zirin
June 21, 2010
Our government has managed to deliver "world class" facilities and infrastructure that the majority of South Africans will never benefit from or be able to enjoy. Read more
We Have a Black President, But That Doesn't Resolve the Deep Racism Built into the American Psyche
by Tim Wise
June 19, 2010
The good news is, when we call out racial biases in society and ourselves, we can in fact reduce the likelihood of acting on the basis of those biases. Anti-racism takes practice. Read more
No Nukes/No Empire: The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Requires the End of the U.S. Empire
by Prof. Robert Jensen
June 16, 2010
If we are serious about the abolition of nuclear weapons, we have to place the abolition of the U.S. empire at the center of our politics. Read more
'Felony is the New ‘N-Word': Michelle Alexander on Mass Incarceration as 'The New Jim Crow'
by Paul Street
June 12, 2010
What did Obama’s ascendancy really signify for the African American man waiting to be hauled off to the nation’s disproportionately black jails and prisons? Read more
by Alexander Cockburn
July 21, 2010
It is not Obama’s fault that for 30 years America’s policy – under Reagan, both Bushes and Bill Clinton – has been to export jobs permanently to the Third World. The jobs that Americans now desperately seek are no longer here ... Read more
Introducing Employer of Last Resort
by Ryan A. Dodd
July 19, 2010
The standard mainstream response to the problem of unemployment is to blame the victims of capitalism for lacking the necessary talents, skills, and effort to get and keep a job. Read more
by Noam Chomsky
July 19, 2010
Noam Chomsky shares his insights regarding the ongoing problems confronting the beleaguered nation of Haiti Read more
What’s Up with All the Teacher Bashing?
by Editors of Rethinking Schools
July 08, 2010
“Bad teachers” are being used as the excuse to turn schools into one more arena for corporate development. Read more
The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro
by Frederick Douglass
June 30, 2010
In a speech delivered before the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society on July 5, 1852, Douglass powerfully exposes the hypocrisy of asking a slave to celebrate the Fourth of July. Read more
by Lance Selfa
June 30, 2010
Byrd was born poor and worked odd jobs through the Second World War. During the war, he joined his local Ku Klux Klan chapter. Read more
Putting Tears Aside: Celebrating Ghana's Victory
by Dave Zirin
June 29, 2010
Off the field, the game is rigged and the West will win no matter the final score. On the field, revenge is sweet. Let the vuvuzelas blow. Read more
by Ralph Nader
June 28, 2010
If you are planning to fly over the 4th of July holiday, be aware of your rights at airport security checkpoints. Read more
America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company-Owned Town
by Glen Ford
June 24, 2010
The United States can no longer engage effectively in "nation-building" in the one place on Earth it has a right and duty to do so: at home. Read more
Washington: Theatre of the Absurd
by Ralph Nader
June 23, 2010
Each of these agencies may wake up some day to witness a catastrophic hazardous materials disaster or meltdown that they should have prevented with stronger standards, inspection and law enforcement. Heed this caution, Mr. President! Read more
A New Day in the Chicago Teachers Union
by Lee Sustar
June 21, 2010
What drives school reform is a single focus on profit. Profit. Not teaching, not learning, profit. Read more
Dear Reader, Pllllease Sllllow Doooown
by Holly Ramer
June 18, 2010
At a time when people spend their time skimming websites and e-mails, an English professor at the University of New Hampshire is making the case for slowing down to gain more meaning and pleasure out of the written word. Read more
