International : Haidar Eid A Gaza resident asks the president of the United States how he can defend Israel's "security" in the face of the barbarism inflicted on Palestinians.
November 19, 2009 : Arundhati Roy The flat-topped hills and mountains of Orissa in southeastern India are being sold off to multinational mining companies for the bauxite they contain.
November 17, 2009 : Anand Gopal An Afghanistan-based journalist looks at the fallout from the country's fraud-ridden presidential election and the likelihood of an intensified war.
November 13, 2009 : Stuart Easterling The horrific massacre of a Mexican union leader and his family is being blamed on drug gangs, but that leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
November 13, 2009 : Shaun Joseph A U.S.-brokered deal that was supposed to return Honduras' legitimate President Manuel Zelaya to office has been broken by the coup regime.
November 9, 2009 : Chris Harman The death of British socialist and author Chris Harman comes as a terrible shock to the many people around the world he influenced.
November 9, 2009 : Michael Ratner Twenty-three Americans were convicted in Italy for their part in the "rendition" of an Egyptian cleric so he could be tortured.
November 9, 2009 Three Puerto Rican activists discuss the dynamics of the mass mobilization against the layoffs of more than 25,000 public-sector workers.
November 5, 2009 : Oscar Estrada With a deal that would restore Manuel Zelaya still in the balance, an opponent of the coup regime discusses the resistance's next move.
November 4, 2009 : Malalai Joya The nations that pose themselves as liberators to others will lead them into slavery--that's what we have experienced in Afghanistan and Iraq.
November 3, 2009 : Shaun Joseph A deal that is supposed to reinstate Manuel Zelaya as president forced concessions from the coup regime, but they were highly conditional.
November 2, 2009 Two labor and community activists in Mexico describe the fight for justice at an auto parts factory in the northern maquila zone.
October 30, 2009 : Eamonn McCann The UK refuses to assert a women's right to choose in Northern Ireland, while advocating safer and more accessible abortions in far-flung places.
October 30, 2009 : Patrick Bond With a new international climate summit coming in December, the Obama White House is supporting legislation that will lock in catastrophe.
October 29, 2009 : Joseph Shansky Ordinary Hondurans are breaking through the information blockade that has paralyzed the country since the coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya.
October 28, 2009 The Puerto Rican government is using a refinery fire to whip up fears of “terrorism,” but the people most affected are workers.
October 28, 2009 : Saadia Toor The Pakistani military's offensive in Waziristan is taking place with the full support of the U.S. government--and from liberals in Pakistan itself.
October 27, 2009 : Stuart Easterling Electrical workers in Mexico are mobilizing to defend their union after police occupied workplaces and the government fired 44,000 unionists.
October 23, 2009 Two union leaders in Colombia representing workers at the important Tenaris steel tube plant have gotten death threats.
October 23, 2009 : Eric Ruder The Palestinian Authority was forced to retreat from helping Israel to suppress a UN report documenting war crimes during the Gaza assault.
October 22, 2009 : Snehal Shingavi The attack by 30,000 government troops on the Pakistani Taliban was demanded by the U.S. as a means to solve its crisis in Afghanistan.
October 20, 2009 : Yolanda Rivera The October 15 general strike in Puerto Rico highlighted the scale of growing resistance to Gov. Luis Fortuño’s effort to wipe out public-sector jobs.
October 19, 2009 : Oscar Estrada The coup regime in Honduras is continuing to clamp down on protests and the media while dragging its feet in negotiations.
October 16, 2009 : Lee Sustar Workers are responding to plans to cut 17,000 government jobs with a one-day work stoppage supported by virtually all of the island's unions.
October 15, 2009 : Antonis Davenellos Economic crisis and mass struggle paved the way for the election victory of the social democratic party PASOK--and the radical left is poised to grow.
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