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    Last Summer's J14 movement against the high cost of living in Israel organized first major demo of the year, police targeted leaders

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    The airing of the first presidential debate in the nation's history packed the coffee shops of downtown Cairo as Egyptians gathered to watch the two frontrunners trade barbs

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    Danny Schechter 

    We Need A Media War On All Fronts
    By Danny Schechter. Author of Blogothon When do you feel like you are over the hill? When you get letters like this one from Jose Hevia after writing an op ed featuring an essay from your recent book Blogothon, recounting ...

    Friday, 18 May 2012

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    Phyllis Bennis 

    Palestinian Hunger Strikers and U.S. Veterans Returning Service Medals Lead Movements for Peace
    In a rare victory for human rights in a part of the world far more familiar with human rights violations, Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike won major concessions from the Israeli occupying forces. Their ...

    Thursday, 17 May 2012

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    William Fisher 

    Who'll Have the Last Laugh?
    By William Fisher Andrew Rosenthal, the editor of the editorial pages for the New York Times, was practically ecstatic. He wrote: "Over the last several years, two private military contractors linked to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib have been ...

    Thursday, 17 May 2012

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    Gareth Porter 

    IAEA Parchin Demand Puts Iran Cooperation Pact at Risk
    Analysis by Gareth Porter*

    WASHINGTON, May 14, 2012 (IPS) - In meetings with Iranian officials in Vienna this week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) apparently intends to hold up agreement on a plan for ...

    Tuesday, 15 May 2012

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    John Weeks 

    Anti-Austerity Policies in France
    By John Weeks. This article was first published on Insight Web. Good-bye to TINA In the future humans will look back in wonder that in the early years of the twenty-first century a form of madness afflicted politicians in Europe. ...

    Monday, 14 May 2012

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    Ray McGovern 

    Honoring a ‘Terror War’ Architect
    By Ray McGovern. This article was first published on Consortium News. In this season of graduations – and the rush to bestow honorary degrees on the “great and powerful” – one ironic moment will play out at Fordham ...

    Sunday, 13 May 2012

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    David Swanson 

    Judge Deliberates on Whether to Save Earth's Atmosphere
    By David Swanson. This article first appeared on War Is A Crime. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins heard the arguments on Friday in Washington, D.C., and is ...

    Friday, 11 May 2012

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    Jeff Cohen 

    Progressive Election Strategy and the Norman Solomon Campaign
    By Jeff Cohen. We can’t devise a successful electoral strategy for “The Left” – meaning the forces of peace, social/economic justice and sustainability – unless we face a simple fact: We’re getting our asses kicked. For three decades, ...

    Wednesday, 9 May 2012

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    Diane Kalen-Sukra 

    BEATING THE CORPORATE CAMPAIGN TO PRIVATIZE WATER
    By Diane Kalen-Sukra. We've all heard that water is the new gold. Global water shortages, combined with the thirst of multinational corporations to profit from a resource that is essential for all human, plant and animal life, has ...

    Wednesday, 9 May 2012

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    Allen Ruff 

    A Wisconsin Idea Resurgent
    It Started In Wisconsin
    Dispatches from the Front Lines
    of the New Labor Protest
    By Mari Jo Buhle & Paul Buhle, editors
    London & New York: Verso, 2011, 181 pages,
    $14.95 paperback. Wisconsin Uprising
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    Wednesday, 9 May 2012

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