Issue 671 | May 8, 2008
: Michael Klare The growing global demand for energy is driving the world's military powers into confrontations to control the earth's dwindling resources.
A recent class-action lawsuit has exposed the failure of the Veterans Administration to provide adequate mental health treatment to former soldiers.
A Pentagon program for lining up retired officers to appear in the media as independent "analysts" has been exposed.
: Phil Gasper The Democratic presidential candidates say they will reduce crime by putting more police on the street. But the facts tell a different story.
: Kevin Pina An independent journalist explains how neoliberal policies demanded by the U.S. left Haiti especially vulnerable to the spike in food prices.
The media that praise a new generation of Rockefellers for promoting alternative energy are ignoring the cruel history of the robber-baron family.
Barack Obama's decision to ditch his former pastor is part of a broader strategy of tilting right to appeal to supposedly conservative white voters.
Frederick Engels provides a materialist analysis of the rise of class society and, with it, the roots of women's oppression.
Without its own political party, leaders and political representatives, the working class will remain subordinated to the Republicans and Democrats.
Dockworkers up and down the West Coast stopped work on May Day in a protest against the war.
Thousands of 1199SEIU members rallied in New York City in support of strikers at the Kingsbridge Heights Nursing Home, whose owner refuses to sign a union contract.
Supporters of immigrant rights celebrated May Day by taking to the streets for the third year in a row, in cities across the U.S.
The California Teachers Association is opposing proposed budget cuts affecting schools--and plans to link May 14 "Day of the Teacher" actions to the campaign.
Members of the Black Panther Party gathered in Seattle to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the chapter's founding.
Members from over 20 chapters of the Campus Antiwar Network gathered in April for an East Coast conference.
Austin activists are mourning the death of Riad Hamad, a friend and ally in the struggle for Palestinian rights.
If Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed 10 percent cut in California's education budget goes through, LA schools alone will lose $450 million.
Tribal lines do exist in Iraq | Will Obama be better? | Massachusetts school budgets slashed | Shutting down debate about racism | Who owns the airwaves?
The Freedom Archives has released a CD of singer, actor and communist Paul Robeson's speeches and interviews.
A new book recalls the 1997 Teamsters strike against UPS--and how it was covered in the corporate media.
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