Issue 700 | July 3, 2009
: Laura Durkay Our delegation of 65 American and international activists traveled to Gaza to witness the destruction from what Palestinians call "the last war."
: Phil Aliff The once-forgotten "good war" in Afghanistan now captures headlines daily as NATO forces face intensified fighting and further instability.
: Leela Yellesetty There are two Seattles--one for the wealthy few and another for the vast majority of people who barely scrape by, and sometimes not even that.
On a bright, warm afternoon, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott finally walked out of a Texas jail after a judge ordered them released.
: Renee Collins I was horrified but not surprised by the deadly collision on the Red Line in Washington, D.C.--regular riders know it wasn't a question of if, but when.
Two leading civil rights and immigrant rights activists have been charged with felonies in separate cases, and face possible prison time.
: Clinton Clad-Johnson Trey Joyner will never get to tell what happened when police shot him in the back. And information seems as hard to get out of the authorities.
: Lee Sustar Is a radical change possible in Iran? Answering that question requires a look at Iranian history, politics and society beyond the disputed June 12 election.
Some of Barack Obama's most ardent supporters are unsettled by the administration's failure to pursue a bold agenda for reform.
In the name of finding "middle ground," Barack Obama and the Democrats are making compromises that the health care industry can be happy with.
The military officers and right-wing forces who ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya have longstanding ties to the U.S. government.
Striking union workers at Bell Helicopter and their supporters are walking the picket line in Fort Worth.
Millions of people turned out in cities across the country in June for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pride celebrations.
Nearly 1,000 people from across the U.S. gathered in Chicago over the weekend for the first Socialism 2009 conference.
The drive by California politicians to balance their budget on the backs of the most vulnerable continues to touch off dissent.
British antiwar activist George Galloway gave a rousing speech in Chicago to raise funds for an aid convoy from the U.S. to Gaza.
More than 75 supporters of UE Local 1174 members at Quad City Die Casting in Iowa protested Wells Fargo Bank in Chicago.
San Diego activists gathered in front of a CVS Pharmacy as part of a national campaign against the company's unethical and racist sales practices.
: Sherry Wolf Two Sacramento disc jockeys who spewed hate about transgender youth were met by an outpouring of anger across the country.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy took time out from waging war on the working class to set his sights on a favorite target: French Muslims.
: Helen Redmond Not-for-profit hospitals are actually for-profit hospitals, according to the new documentary Do No Harm.
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