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Geography Archives: Americas
South America, Central America, United States & Canada
Out, Proud, and Fighting
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Bernanke and “The Great Moderation” Four Years Later
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Lies of the Lashkar
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Transforming “the Nursery of Rebellion”
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Everyday Life in Central Asia
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Struggling for Peace on New Terrain
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Lost in the Desert
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Feel the Real Cost of Prisons
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Neocons, Republicans, and War Criminals Rave about Obama’s “Team of Rivals”
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One Hundred and Fifty Years of Marx’s Grundrisse: Incomplete, Complex and Prophetic
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Bailout — an End Run around Bankruptcy
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Indigenous Peoples Rising in Bolivia and Ecuador
Introduction Indigenous peoples in Indo-Afro-Latin America, especially Bolivia and Ecuador, are rising up to take control of their own lives and act in solidarity with others to save the planet. They are calling for new, yet ancient, practices of plurinational, participatory, and intercultural democracy. They champion ecologically sustainable development; community-based autonomies; and solidarity with other […]
The Financial Crisis Hits the Immigration Debate
Part of the right wing routinely blames undocumented immigrants for just about everything. On September 24, nine days after the financial meltdown started in earnest, the National Review Web site carried an article by columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin blaming “illegals” for the crisis and the subsequent bailout of the banks. “The Mother of All […]
Calderon’s Nightmare — Renegotiating NAFTA
Open class struggle is every capitalist ruler’s nightmare. As long as poor working people suffer in silence, business can continue as usual. Heads of state can go on pushing the buttons and pulling the levers of power according to plan with little interference from below. There is a point in time, however, when the legions […]
Colombia in Economic Crisis: Interview with Forrest Hylton
Zaa Nkweta: With Colombia in the midst of economic crisis, highlighted by the fall of several pyramid schemes, Colombia President Álvaro Uribe has vowed to stamp out corruption, arresting 52 employees and declaring the state of emergency. I spoke to Forrest Hylton about the actions that the Colombian government has undertaken. Forrest Hylton: Uribe is […]
Bailout Costs $8.5 Trillion: Interview with Nomi Prins
The Real News: The 800 billion announced Tuesday and 7.76 trillion from the Bloomberg estimate add up to $8.56 trillion or $26,500 for every man, woman, or child in the United States. We spoke to journalist and author Nomi Prins about where these trillions might come from. Nomi Prins: . . . All of […]
The Achilles’ Heel of the Bolivarian Revolution
The media were predicting a disaster for Venezuela’s Chavistas. Desperate for news that was fit to print, the opposition-controlled Venezuelan press and its foreign counterparts convinced many that the time had come for Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian Revolution, after stumbling in a slim referendum defeat last year, to finally come crashing down under its […]
A Big Caravan to Washington? The Auto Crisis: Management, Labor, and the Struggle for the Future
The crisis in the auto industry is about many things: the possible collapse of GM, Detroit gas guzzlers, auto emission standards, the environment, and the need for mass transportation, among others. But as became clear this last week, at the center of it all is the struggle between management and the workers, that is, between […]
US Citizen Diplomats Arrive in Iran, Invited by Ahmadinejad
In an effort to establish peaceful diplomacy with the government and people of Iran, and to model for the new Obama administration the power of cooperative good will, three highly regarded American peace makers have ventured to Iran. CodePink cofounders, Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, along with former Army Colonel and decorated Foreign Service […]
