Issue 662 | February 15, 2008
At Fort Drum in New York, the U.S. Army tried to save a buck by preventing returning soldiers from getting the benefits they deserve.
: Lee Sustar The economic stimulus plan passed by Congress shafts the unemployed, the hungry and tax-paying undocumented immigrants.
The debate about the torture of "war on terror" detainees was reopened when a White House spokesman asserted that waterboarding is legal.
The unidentified remains of at least six workers were recovered after an explosion at the Dixie Crystal sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Ga.
Israel escalated its air assault and blockade against Gaza in the weeks after Palestinians tore down part of the border wall with Egypt.
Barack Obama has tapped into mass discontent with the status quo and the desire for a genuine and fundamental alternative.
Civil War and Reconstruction Abolishing the crime of slavery took an immense Civil War and a postwar period of Reconstruction that involved dramatic political struggles.
In the collective fight for reforms, ordinary people are radicalized and gain a sense of their own power.
Hollywood writers won important gains after standing strong in a 14-week strike against TV and film producers.
Chicago Public Schools | Solidarity with the Freightliner Five
Main Street in Danbury, Conn., was eerily quiet on February 6, with dark storefronts boasting pink fliers announcing they were closed for the day.
Univ. of Cincinnati antiwar forum | Oregon protest for same-sex civil rights
At the University of Vermont, the student body has grown by 30 percent in five years, but the number of professors has grown half as fast.
Can broad left parties succeed? | Immigrants driven by desperation
The film There Will Be Blood and the book it's based on, Upton Sinclair's Oil! share a revulsion at how capitalism crushes what's most human out of people.
In a new book of essays, Noam Chomsky explains what the Bush administration viewed as "opportunities" after September 11.
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