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Slavery, Capitalism, and Emancipation
In an amazing show of ignorance, Republican Congresswoman and Tea Party Express' spokesperson Michele Bachmann stated that the founding fathers of the United States abolished slavery in her response to...
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You Might be a Marxist If ... You Believe God Hates Capitalism
To all religious believers who have ever questioned the capitalist system: One of the biggest intellectual frauds in capitalist society is the widespread belief that capitalism is compatible with the...
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FBI Raids Georgia Tech Student's Dorm over Wikileaks Chat Room
Original source: The Atlanta Progressive News UPDATE: A roommate of Chen called APN to say that the roommate had received the note left by APN. He said he would forward the note to Chen. He said that...
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Learn More: Celebrate African American History Month
Join with us to celebrate African American history month. Some of our most recent podcasts include interviews with top African American historians who have written books on a range of topics from the...
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Key African Economist Hails China’s Investment
Original source: China Daily China is winning more understanding and recognition in Africa, Chinese experts said after a key African economist said Chinese investment is “really largely positive” at...
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Public Rejects GOP Push to Eliminate EPA
Once again Republicans are proving to be out of step with the American people. This time calls by leading Republicans to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency have met with resistance by...
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General Electric and the New Industrial Policy
The addition of General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt to the third top Obama Administration position on economic policy tells an important tale about both this political moment, but more importantly, about...
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A Party of Socialism in the 21st Century: What It Looks Like, What It Says,...
"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and...
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The Reagan Era Brought Us Depression, War, and Mass Murder in the Global South
Original source: Diary of a Heartland Radical The rightwing media, including the Lafayette-West Lafayette Journal and Courier, have resumed the historical revisionism that portrays Ronald Reagan as a...
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Rental Assistance Funds Stagnate, Still Available in Atlanta
Original source: The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA -- Several Atlanta non-profit agencies did not disburse rental assistance and other homelessness prevention funds in a timely manner and...
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Republicans Plan to Eliminate Medicare and Social Security
Republicans got elected by saying the word "jobs" a lot during the worst recession since the Great Depression, despite having voted against every job-creating program offered by the President or the...
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Race and the White House, an Interview with Clarence Lusane
Editor's note: Clarence Lusane teaches political science at American University and has authored a number of books, including Hitler’s Black Victims: The Experiences of Afro-Germans, Africans,...
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Podcast: Egypt’s Struggle for Democracy
On this episode, well play a recorded discussion of the events in Egypt and their causes, the roles of the youth movement, new information technologies, the Egyptian labor movement, and what steps...
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What does North Country teach about working-class masculinity?
I'll admit to being behind the times on this one. The other night I watched North Country (2005), which included brilliant performances from Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Frances McDormand, Sissy...
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EPA After 40 Years
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had its 40th anniversary in 2010. How effective has the EPA been and what are its...
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Egypt Rising as Shock Waves from Tunisia Arrive
Original source: People's Democracy Egypt, the centre of Arab politics and culture, is now teetering on the brink of a revolution, threatening the thirty year rule of Hosni Mubarak. It is no longer a...
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Public Workers are not Public Enemies
There have been a lot of negative things written about public workers lately, not just in our local newspapers, but everywhere we turn: Our healthcare benefits are too generous. Our pension costs are...
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Against Public Wishes, Republicans Go Forward with Pro-Pollution Agenda
Supporters of clean air and water this week pushed back against a Republican Party proposal to block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from doing its job to protect American families from air...
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The Bad Doctor and the Ambiguous Dictator
President Hosni Mubarak evidently has the same hearing problem as Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Protesters have now been calling for him to step down for the 3rd consecutive week, so what does he...
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Duvalier = Aristide?
Duvalier = Aristide?Equation of dictator with popular ex-president distorts Haitian history, reality2/10/11 It was certainly surprising to see former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier return to the...
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