Issue 674 | June 20, 2008
: Adam Turl By virtually every measure--wages, conditions, debt, unemployment and more--young working people are less well off today than preceding generations.
: Dahr Jamail Dozens of antiwar veterans converged on Seattle to share stories of atrocities being committed in Iraq at the Northwest Regional Winter Soldier hearings.
: Eric Ruder The biggest problem for the movement isn't that millions of people are frightened of it, but that the antiwar majority has no active outlet to express opposition.
: Martin Smith Gen. William Odom had become a darling of the Bush administration's opponents, but his "antiwar" stance came from a disagreement over tactics, not aims.
In a blow to the Bush administration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prisoners of the "war on terror" can appeal to federal courts.
: Mateo Rebecchi An IVAW member explains what went into the 800-strong Northwest Regional Winter Soldier hearing in Seattle, and what vets and activists are planning next.
: Chris Williams At the UN food summit in Rome, the priorities of world leaders were on display--and they didn't include alleviating the suffering of the hungry.
: Nicole Colson With food prices climbing higher with every passing week, more and more poor and working-class families are finding it difficult to put food on the table.
The film War, Inc. tells us more about Iraq and U.S. politics than anything on offer from the media, with its 24/7 barrage of abuse of our intelligence.
There is nothing in Obama's record to suggest that he plans any radical departures from the mainstream of the American foreign policy establishment.
When war crimes like Haditha see the light of day, the myth of U.S. "success" in Iraq is exposed, as is the real face of occupation.
Barack Obama's motive in criticizing Black men as irresponsible was to appeal to conservative white voters by validating racist stereotypes.
George Bush ratcheted up the pressure on Iran with his announcement while in Britain that the European Union had agreed to a new round of sanctions.
Rosa Luxemburg's book, written after the 1905 revolution in Russia, shows how "economic" issues can be the catalyst for "political" demands.
U.S. politicians and employers have always used anti-immigrant laws not so much to prevent the entry of all immigrant labor, as to control it.
: Larry Bradshaw SEIU President Andy Stern and his staff prevailed at the convention, but pro-reform members succeeded in advancing a debate inside the country's largest union.
A Seattle Community College student was attacked by police in front of a crowd of 100 people--but fellow students are organizing against this injustice.
Activists for health care reform turned out for the first public hearing on proposed legislation to create a statewide single-payer system.
Hundreds of people joined the first-ever New England Transgender Pride march on June 7 in Northampton, Mass.
Two leading voices of opposition to U.S. war in the Middle East, Cindy Sheehan and Dahr Jamail spoke out in Seattle in early June.
Anyone who has read about the case of Greg Wright has to admit that he was wrongly convicted, yet he has been given an execution date of September 9.
Students and teachers in a couple cities have begun to take a stand against time-consuming and wasteful high-stakes testing.
The celebrated socialist science fiction writer China Miéville has written his first book for younger readers, Un Lun Dun.
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