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 | Educational Strike in Spain Brings Hundreds of Thousands Into the Streets | |
| Students, parents and teachers from all levels of the Spanish public education system went on strike to protest the massive cuts proposed as part of the government's austerity program. | ||
 | IAEA Near Iran Inspection Deal but will US Insist on End to Enrichment? | |
| Gareth Porter: If US demands Iran give up its right to enrich for peaceful purposes, no real agreement is possible | ||
 | NATO Protests In Fortress Chicago | |
| While no mass arrests took place, downtown loop fully militarized | ||
 | 250,000+ Defy Anti-Protest Law in Quebec | |
| Jeremie Bedard: Students will insist on their rights to education and their right to protest | ||
 | J.P. Morgan Funds Senate Finance Chair, Even Bigger Problem in the Wings | |
| Tom Ferguson: Euro crisis may have more devasting effect on US banks than previously thought | ||
 | BP Coverup, Coverup | |
| Greg Palast: US corporate media ignoring evidence of BP foreknowledge of problems that led to Gulf disaster | ||
 | Thousands of Israelis Celebrate Occupation of East Jerusalem | |
| During the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations tens of thousands marched through Damascus Gate as
Palestinians protest | ||
 | Denying Civil Rights is a Crime | |
| TRNN Replay: Paul Jay on austerity, mass protests and mass arrests | ||
| Denying Civil Rights is a Crime | |
| TRNN Replay: Paul Jay on austerity, mass protests and mass arrests | ||
 | In Chicago, Nurses Rally for "Robin Hood" Tax | |
| National Nurses United calls for international campaign for financial transaction tax | ||
 | Is a Fight in Democratic Party Worth It? | |
| Jeff Cohen: The progressive movement must try to achieve power and
accept, for now, this is a two party system | ||
 | Israeli Police Target Activists as Social Protests Restart | |
| Last Summer's J14 movement against the high cost of living in Israel
organized first major demo of the year, police targeted leaders | ||
 | Honduran President Lobo Given Leadership in International Relations Award at CHLI Gala | |
| Right wing CHLI started by same Cuban American politicians who
backed the 2009 Honduran coup and subsequent fraudulent elections that brought Lobo to power | ||
 | US Befriends Kazakhstan Dictator, Now World's Largest Producer of Uranium | |
| Allen Ruff: Vicious dictatorship courted by US and Russia, is a vital
strategic objective in Eurasia | ||
 | JP Morgan Debacle Shows Deep Systemic Risk Unchanged | |
| Bill Black: Billions of derivative bets cannot be called a hedge but might
be allowed under weakend Volker rule | ||
 | Two Billion Dollar Tip of Banking Iceberg | |
| Gerald Epstein: J.P. Morgan debacle shows systemic risk unchanged; breaking up big banks, reform Fed and public banking urgently required | ||
 | The Struggle Over UNCTAD (and Why It Matters) | |
| Vijay Prashad: Southern countries defend mandate as the "North" pushes a "global supply chain" that
could obliterate smaller countries | ||
 | Corporate Media and the Austerity Campaign | |
| Bill Black: Most media treats austerity as a necessary solution, not a means to enforce the interests of finance | ||
 | New York Students Walkout Against School Closures | |
| Students and teachers oppose plans to close up to 60 schools this year | ||
 | Tucson Students Stage Walkouts, Teach-Ins Over Suspended Mexican American Studies Program | |
| Students organize school of ethnic studies to teach "forbidden" curriculum | ||
 | Tucson Militarizes Public School Board Meeting | |
| Battle over the future of ethnic studies in Arizona rages on | ||
 | Tucson Students Occupy School Board Meeting to Defend Ethnic Studies | |
| Students in Tucson, Arizona take over school board meeting to prevent controversial vote | ||
 | Students and Teachers Fight Education Cuts in North Carolina | |
| Thousands of students and teachers take to the streets opposing Republican controlled North Carolina State Assembly bill to cut education budget | ||
 | Educators use Occupy Movement to Defend Public Education | |
| An unequal financial system contributing to poverty and joblessness is a focus of the Occupy movement, but little attention is paid to educators | ||
 | Shills and Cruel Jokes | |
| Labor Beat: Parents and teachers protest "show trial" hearings they say are being used close their Chicago schools | ||
 | “Librotraficantes” Smuggle Banned Books Into Tucson, Arizona | |
| Students and activists set up “Underground Libraries” of books prohibited in suspended Mexican American Studies classrooms | ||
 | Quebec Students Rejecting Tuition Deal | |
| 170,000 students remain on strike as assemblies vote to reject government offer | ||
 | Quebec Students Demand Education as a Right, Continue Strike | |
| J Bedard: Students almost unanimously reject government deal, willing to lose year if necessary | ||
 | What's Next for Ron Paul? | |
| Matt Welch: Will Ron Paul endorse Romney at convention, run on a third party ticket, and if so, what might that mean for Rand Paul? | ||
 | Deep Structural Change Won't Come from Hollande | |
| Gerard Dumenil: New French President Holland won't do much to change economic policy but he might make a difference in other spheres | ||
 | New York Students Allege Police Harassment for Fighting School Closure | |
| Activists want charges dropped and 5,000 police removed from New York public schools | ||
 | What Americans can Learn from Eurocrisis | |
| Michael Hudson: From the Democratic Party to European "Socialists", they manage crisis in the interests of finance | ||
 | Abbaseya Aftermath and the Military Council's Reign of Terror | |
| Hundreds of Egyptians were hunted down and detained, including over 20 journalists and medics. | ||
 | Austerity, the Euro Crisis and the US | |
| Dean Baker: Austerity policy hitting a dead end, threat to US is a sovereign default leading to financial crisis | ||
 | Two of Mass Palestinian Prisoner's Hunger Strike "On Verge of Death" | |
| Over 1600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail hold mass hunger strike, two of the arrested pass 70 days without food | ||
 | Will New French President Challenge Germany? | |
| Mark Kesselman: The big question is whether Mr. Hollande will be a lion or the mouse that roared | ||
 | People of Greece Shake Europe | |
| Costas Lapavitsas: The growing strength of the left shows the Greek people are getting ready to leave the Eurozone | ||
 | The Paradox of President Putin | |
| Aleksandr Buzgalin: Putin defends the Russian state against Western neo-liberals while pushing the same policies inside Russia | ||
 | Russia’s “Jurassic Capitalism” Pt.2 | |
| Part 2 of Aleksandr Buzgalin's presentation on the Russian economy | ||
 | Russia’s “Jurassic Capitalism”: A Caricature of the West? | |
| Aleksandr Buzgalin: A strata of bureaucrats and oligarchs rule a caricature of Western capitalism, amassing fabulous wealth | ||
 | Russia’s “Jurassic Capitalism” | |
| Part 1 of Aleksandr Buzgalin's presentation on Russian Economy | ||
 | Chicago Latinos Demand Supreme Court Strike Down Arizona SB1070 | |
| Chicago activists organize on May 1st to demand rights | ||
 | AFRICOM and the Conflict in Mali | |
| Nii Akuetteh: Why did US trained officers organize the coup in Mali? | ||
 | If Ann Romney's Child Rearing is Work, Should All Care Givers Be Compensated? | |
| Nancy Folbre: Raising children is socially valuable work, social programs that support it are a form of payment | ||
 | May Day Protests Around the World Pt.1 | |
| Workers take to the streets on International Workers' Day in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe | ||
 | May 1st and an Independent Workers Movement | |
| Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin: Occupiers and union activists should build
class organizations that challenge for power | ||
 | Egyptian Workers' Struggle Continues | |
| Thousands of workers fired at Shebin el-Kom factory, part of corrupt privatization deal | ||
 | A Wall St. Tax and an Independent Workers Movement | |
| Rose Ann DeMoro and Robert Pollin: There is little will in Washington for a financial transaction tax because Wall St. has "occupied the White House" | ||
 | The Egyptian Revolution and Neo-Liberal Economics | |
| Workers protest as European Bank seeks to ratify $1.5 bn in loans to Egypt | ||
 | Humanitarian Crisis Continues in Gaza | |
| Dr. Mads Gilbert: The siege of Gaza continues to make life unbearable | ||
 | Bankers Assault on Financial Reform | |
| Gerald Epstein: New financial regulations contained in the Dodd-Frank law are being gutted or delayed by regulators and Congress | ||
 | Sometimes Civil Disobedience is the Only Way to be Heard | |
| Leah Bolger, a retired navy officer, talks about her arrest at Congress and plans for NATO protest | ||
 | Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control | |
| Medea Benjamin: Drones kill innocent civilians and antagonize whole populations | ||
 | Mexicanos Piden Justicia Por Estudiantes Normalistas Asesinados | |
| Después del asesinato de dos estudiantes de la Escuela Normal Ayotzniapa, por la policia, durante una manifestacion el diciembre 2011 en el estado sureño de Guerrero, estudiantes Mexicanos han movilizado para pedir justicia y seguir exigiendo reformas educativas. | ||
 | “Occupy the Department of Justice” Demands Release of Mumia Abu Jamal, End to Mass Incarceration | |
| Rally held outside Department of Justice followed by march through Downtown DC and civil disobedience arrests at White House | ||
 | Israel Celebrates Independence Day, Arrests Activists | |
| While hundreds of thousands celebrated, the police arrested three
activists for trying to question the history of this day. | ||
 | Reining in Finance and the Struggle Over UN Agency's Mandate | |
| Vijay Prashad: Developed countries fight to stop UNCTAD linking financial speculation to food insecurity | ||
 | Protest Calls on Supreme Court to Strike Down Arizona Immigration Law | |
| Court Hears Oral Arguments in SB1070 Case “United States v. Arizona” | ||
 | What Would Make Baltimore Safer? | |
| Monique Dixon and Terry Hickey Part 2: There is no evidence supporting a new $100 million youth prison for youth charged as adults | ||
 | U.S. Electoral System Wallowing in a Sea of Money, Idiocy, and Corruption | |
| Robert McChesney: Corporate media making millions from political ads, then cover ad driven horse race as news | ||
 | Why Gaza's Healthcare Fails Thousands of Injured | |
| Thousands are forced to seek emergency care in Egypt and Israel after
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip as healthcare system in crisis. | ||
 | Sudan's Bashir Threatens War Against South Sudan | |
| Nii Akuetteh: US wants to use South to gain strategic advantage but China may be the peace broker | ||
 | Is Netanyahu Bluffing? | |
| Gareth Porter: Netanyahu is telling the Israeli people an attack on Iran will not cost much, but is the real objective to destroy the Iranian economy through sanctions? | ||
 | Beat the Press with Dean Baker | |
| Economist Dean Baker gives his take on media coverage of the economy | ||
 | Does Charging Youth as Adults Make Baltimore Safer? | |
| Monique Dixon and Terry Hickey: There is no evidence supporting a new $100 million youth prison for youth charged as adults | ||
 | The French Election and the Eurocrisis | |
| Gérard Duménil: Most voters want to save social programs and reject austerity | ||
 | Inequality and Instability - Part 4 | |
| James K. Galbraith on his study of the world economy just before the great crisis | ||
 | Right Wing Billionaires Push Israel's Agenda in 2012 Elections | |
| Right-Wing Neoconservatives and former Democrats from Wall Street are teaming up to defeat Obama, but can their attacks on his Israel policy divide his funding base? | ||
 | Disqualifications narrow Egypt race to the Islamist and the 'Felool' | |
| With the elections six weeks away, two candidates have emerged as favorites after ten others are disqualified. | ||
 | Inequality and Instability - Part 3 | |
| James K. Galbraith on link between inequality and instability: Societies that are more egalitarian are more stable | ||
 | Norman Solomon on Why Fight for a Seat in Congress | |
| Norman Solomon: Progressives should build a movement and contend for political power | ||
 | Inequality and Instability - Part 2 | |
| James K. Galbraith: The Bush years - Growth demanded new markets among debtors who previously had not qualified for mortgages | ||
 | Inequality and Instability | |
| James K. Galbraith presents his study of the world economy just before the great crisis | ||
 | US Isolated at Summit of Americas | |
| Alex Main: From Cuba to the war on drugs, only Canada supports US policy | ||
 | Can Jim Yong Kim Make a Difference at the World Bank? | |
| Mark Weisbrot, Patrick Bond and Elaine Zuckerman discuss and debate Obama's "surprising" nomination, now head of the World Bank | ||
 | Israel Denies Entry to Hundreds in Day of Action | |
| Dozens arrested in an international day of solidarity where 1500 activists
tried to land in Israel's Ben Gurion Airport to travel to the occupied
Palestinian territories. | ||
 | Over 165,000 Students On Strike in Quebec Over Planned Tuition Hikes | |
| Students lead tens of thousands in protests against tuition hikes and neoliberal reforms of Quebec government | ||
 | Bahrain Protestors Clash with Police at Citizen Journalist's Funeral | |
| Reem Khalifa: Brutal repression of democracy movement continues as F1 race will go ahead in Bahrain | ||
 | Doha Debates on Women's Rights After Arab Revolutions | |
| This House believes women will be worse off after the Arab revolutions | ||
 | Global North VS South Over Financialization of Food | |
| Vijay Prashad: US and West fighting BRIC and other southern countries that want limits on speculation on food | ||
 | Speculation and Criminal Manipulation of Food and Commodities Prices | |
| Michael Greenberger: Weak regulations on speculators swamping markets and lack of enforcement of existing laws on criminal intent, are driving up prices | ||
 | (De)segregation and the Mexican American Studies Ban in Tucson, Arizona | |
| Is Tucson Unified School District's MAS suspension at odds with a
decades old federal desegregation order? | ||
 | Former U.S. Officials Investigated for Receiving Payments to Promote a Designated Terror Group | |
| Jeremiah Goulka, former RAND expert on the Mujahedin-e Khalq, says war hawks from Bush admin.
and some Democrats were paid by the group to advance its interests in DC and are being investigated by
US Treasuery | ||
 | Human Rights Watch Accuses Assad of Executing Civilians | |
| Vijay Prashad: Outside interference in the Syrian civil war does not excuse the barbaric crimes of the
Assad dictatorship | ||
 | 10 Years Since the Venezuelan Coup | |
| An excerpt from the film 'Inside the Revolution' that tells the story of the 2002 coup against Hugo Chavez | ||
 | Our Name is Resistance | |
| Dimitri Lascaris: Greece buries Dimitris Christoulas as many pledge to carry on the fight against austerity | ||
 | OAS Human Rights Organization Agrees to Hear Gitmo Case, Could Challenge NDAA | |
| Francisco Quintana: First time an international rights body takes up US violations at Gitmo, could lead to case on NDAA detentions | ||
 | Anti-War Conference Against "Humanitarian Imperialism" | |
| Glen Ford: Americans should oppose US military interventions everywhere | ||
 | Israeli Economy and the "Washington Consensus" | |
| Bank of Israel submitted 2011 report, arguing economy is strong, despite gross inequalities and unsustainable neoliberal reforms. | ||
 | Int'l Court Rejects Palestinian Statehood Bid | |
| After three years of deliberation, the International Criminal Court decided
not to admit Palestine as a state | ||
 | Why, Senator Clinton? | |
| We ask Clinton why she voted for an amendment that could be used as support for attacking Iran | ||
 | See the Patterns | |
| TRNN Replay: A 2005 interview with Senior Editor Paul Jay about the vision of The Real News | ||
 | Occupy DC targets Economy and Militarism | |
| David Swanson: Occupy Freedom Plaza DC plans its own “super committee” meetings on the economy | ||
 | Obama, the US and 5 Million Deaths in The Congo | |
| Kambale Musavuli Pt1: Congo is essential to the American military and
aerospace industry | ||
 | Arab League Meeting in Iraq Shows Deep Divisions Over Syria | |
| Vijay Prashad: Saudi and Qatari heads of state are no-shows at Baghdad meeting | ||
 | Jobs Act 2012 a Recipe for Fraud | |
| Bill Black: The "Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act" will create a race to the regulatory bottom | ||
 | A Quick Boost for the Economy -- a $12 Minimum Wage | |
| James K. Galbraith: Raising the minimum wage would boost demand and give millions a better wage | ||
 | "Friends of Syria" Push Civil War | |
| Vijay Prashad: Saudis, Qatar and West arm opposition and recognize Syrian National Council | ||
 | Iranian Diplomat Says IAEA Undermined Recent Talks to Satisfy Israel and West | |
| Gareth Porter: IAEA demanded to see Parchin on recent visit ahead of schedule to make Iran look uncooperative | ||
 | Will Pumping More American Oil Lower Gas Price? | |
| Robert Pollin: Speculation and manipulation key factors in price spike | ||
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