Issue 696 | May 8, 2009
: Michael Schwartz A surge of violence in Iraq shows the continuing conflicts lying just below the surface--and could shake up U.S. plans to shift forces to Afghanistan.
: Eric Ruder The Bush administration torture memos give the grisly details of a sick system, but it's not the first time the U.S. government carried out such barbarism.
: Elizabeth Schulte The guessing game is on about who will replace Justice David Souter, but there are bigger questions worth asking about the Supreme Court.
: Nicole Colson Attention is settling on the possible role of the factory farming system in the swine flu outbreak--specifically, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods.
: Mike Davis The swine flu outbreak has exposed the absence--even in the U.S., and certainly in poor countries--of any capacity to deal with a pandemic of any kind.
Wealthy proponents of charter schools claim they want to advance racial justice--even as public schools become more segregated.
Whole Foods' corporate leaders claim to operate according to a "mission" that promotes social responsibility. But something sinister lurks beneath the surface.
The strongest argument for socialism is the simplest--that capitalism is incapable of meeting the needs of the majority of people.
Karl Marx's critique of capitalism seems prophetic today, but his economic analysis can't be separated from his vision of a revolutionary new society.
: David Rapkin United Teachers Los Angeles members are getting ready to walk the picket line for one day in a fight against planned layoffs of 4,000 teachers.
More than 700 health care union workers and activists met in San Francisco April 25 to formally launch the National Union of Healthcare Workers.
Nearly 100 people turned out to an executive officers candidates' debate held by the United Educators of San Francisco.
In protests across the country on May Day, thousands of activists marched and rallied to demand the rights that all workers deserve.
Students at the University of Vermont marched on administration offices April 22 to stage a sit-in in two joint actions.
Some 250 students and faculty walked out of classes April 22 at City College of New York in Harlem to protest looming tuition increases.
Students and colleagues of Dr. Nagesh Rao have launched a campaign over the rejection of his tenure application.
Over 250 students walked out of class and rallied at University of California-Santa Cruz to oppose cuts that are sweeping the UC system.
A crowd of 40 people came out to show opposition to anti-immigrant racist Tom Tancredo in Pawtucket, R.I.
Students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst organized to show that bigots and sexists aren't welcome on campus.
Antiwar activist and British MP George Galloway drew some 1,000 people to a Southern California meeting on the fight for Palestine.
Some liberals and leftists are rushing to defend right-wing speakers after recent protests on the grounds that protesters were violating "free speech."
: Helen Redmond American Violet is an important new film that exposes the racism that is central to the "war on drugs."
: Ann Coleman The documentary Slingshot Hip Hop tells the story of the struggles of Palestinians through the music of Arab rap artists inside Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
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