Issue 688 | January 16, 2009
: Haidar Eid Gaza has been plunged into a living nightmare as Israel's war on Palestinians claims more victims every day--men, women and children alike.
: Paul D'Amato Israel's war on Gaza has raised a longstanding debate with sections of the antiwar movement that have tried to avoid the issue of Palestine.
: Lee Sustar Barack Obama's proposed economic stimulus plan is hundreds of billions of dollars short of what's needed--and much of it is misdirected.
Barack Obama's inauguration signifies the arrival of a new era in U.S. politics--but its exact shape depends on the struggle from below.
People who placed their hopes in Barack Obama will be told to be patient and wait on the new president to act. They shouldn't.
Protests in solidarity with the people of Gaza against Israel's brutal war are drawing out thousands around the U.S.
Activists were the key to the fact that, the day before 11 of Philadelphia's libraries were set to be closed, a judge issued an injunction keeping them open.
: Leela Yellesetty "Hardships are part of our national experience, and poverty is not the exception," writes Stephen Pimpare in A People's History of Poverty in America.
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