This week
: Dahr Jamail The case of Private Timothy Rich shows the disastrous consequences of the military's apathetic attitude toward its own.
November 16, 2009 : Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare As Washington debates a new surge of troops to Afghanistan, an overstretched military is struggling to meet its deployment numbers.
November 18, 2009
: Gary Lapon The banksters arrogantly jumped to the front of the line for H1N1 vaccine--but the even bigger scandal is the profit-mad behavior of drug companies.
November 16, 2009 : Dennis Kosuth Budget cuts and layoffs in Chicago's Cook County will reduce access to an already overburdened public health care system.
November 17, 2009 : Elizabeth Schulte The Stupak Amendment added to the House health care bill is the latest in a long history of the Democratic Party's betrayals of women's rights.
November 20, 2009 A three-day strike and protest by students, staff and faculty began November 18 at campuses in the University of California system.
November 18, 2009 : Equality Across America The gay victim of a terrible crime in Puerto Rico will be honored at vigils held around the country.
November 20, 2009 : Lee Sustar Civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart has been ordered to report to prison despite cancer surgery scheduled for December 7.
November 20, 2009
: Haidar Eid A Gaza resident asks the president of the United States how he can defend Israel's "security" in the face of the barbarism inflicted on Palestinians.
November 19, 2009 : Arundhati Roy The flat-topped hills and mountains of Orissa in southeastern India are being sold off to multinational mining companies for the bauxite they contain.
November 17, 2009
We live in a society where there are more regulations for euthanizing animals than there are for executing human beings.
November 18, 2009
Those in Britain who talk the most about honoring the war dead are keenest when it comes to keeping a flow of dead coming in from new wars.
November 16, 2009
The Obama administration put bankers' bailouts and more spending on the Pentagon before coming to grips with unemployment.
November 18, 2009
: Julien Ball After just two days of large, spirited picket lines, administrators at the flagship campus of the University of Illinois threw in the towel.
November 19, 2009 : Leighton Christiansen A member of the graduate student employees' strike committee at the University of Illinois explains what the union's fight is about.
November 16, 2009 The cold November rain didn't discourage grad employees on the first day of their strike at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
November 17, 2009 : John Coursey After a six-day strike, Philadelphia transit workers are set to vote on a contract offer that includes most of what the union was fighting for.
November 17, 2009 : Leighton Christiansen While U of I grad employees didn't get everything we wanted in our contract, we stood strong on the picket line and won our key demand.
November 20, 2009 Around 1,200 teachers and their supporters confronted the Portland, Ore., school board to demand movement on a new contract.
November 16, 2009
Nearly 2,000 students from University of California campuses converged on UCLA to confront officials as they voted for a huge tuition hike.
November 20, 2009 Massachusetts LGBT rights activists haven't forgotten Barney Frank's snide hostility toward the National Equality March last October.
November 17, 2009 Nearly 250 protesters from across New York gathered outside an Air Force base near Syracuse to protest the arrival of drone aircraft.
November 19, 2009 Some 200 people came out in downtown Seattle to celebrate the historic victory of Referendum 71 that confirmed LGBT rights.
November 19, 2009 A surge in student and faculty activism won a victory in the Peralta Community College District in northern California.
November 17, 2009
The history of the disability rights movement underscores the point that self-determination, not charity, is the key to liberation.
November 20, 2009 If we want truly equal access for a woman's right to choose, we need to fight for abortion services as part of a publicly funded health care system.
November 20, 2009 Current proposals for health care reform will make insurance companies even richer, and that money will flow back into American politics.
November 18, 2009 While the TV show Glee appears to be about diversity, it sinks to the worst tokenism by keeping its "different" characters on the margins.
November 18, 2009 Like any other struggle, the key is not to focus on how the oppressed are different from their oppressors, but how are they similar.
November 18, 2009 Gaining ground at UPS | A tribute to Chris Harman | The purpose of the death penalty | Wal-Mart never put people first | A Vietnam happening in India
November 20, 2009
: Antonino D'Ambrosio The author of two books on Joe Strummer and Johnny Cash explains why he thinks the idea of making music is a rebellious act.
November 19, 2009
The Men Who Stare at Goats takes an oddly tongue-and-cheek look at the U.S. military's many methods of interrogation.
November 19, 2009
The owners of pro sports teams have gotten public funds for far too long. They have an obligation to hear what we have to say.
November 18, 2009
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