The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears

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By Ramzy Baroud [Photo: Garment worker Mohammad Altab moans to rescuers for help while trapped between concrete slabs and next to two corpses. (Photo: AP Video Image)] As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close to [...]

Freedom Rider: Killing Children

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By Margaret Kimberley. Republished from The Black Agenda Report If America fails to finally find compassion for the legions of “other people’s” children it has killed, then it will never comprehend why its own, internal massacres occur with such frequency. “Indiscriminate violence made America what it is today.” “It was a horrible scene and I [...]

“Nuclear Renaissance” Stumbles as Kewaunee Reactor Shuts Down

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By John LaForge. Republished from The Peace Worker. Kewanee nuclear reactor. With its October decision to end the Kewaunee nuclear power experiment on Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan shore, Dominion Resources has shown the over-hyped “nuclear renaissance” to be a “reactor reassessment.” Calling its decision final, Dominion said it will close the pressurized water reactor permanently next [...]

A Series of Events: Social Class

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By Anonymous We are frequently taught in America, that life is what you make it. This is constantly reflected through images in the news and entertainment on television in general. Furthermore we are taught to believe that early conditions have a minimal effect on our lives, but facts say otherwise. The truth of the matter [...]

Stand Up to Cancer or Bow Down to Industry?

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In 1900, the first year from which we have health statistics about the leading causes of death in the United States, cancer was eighth on the list. Today, cancer is the second leading cause of death in this country and, any moment now, is poised to usurp heart disease as the nation’s number one killer.

‘Managing’ the Plaza: America’s Secret Deal with Mexican Drug Cartels

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By Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… In a story which should have made front page headlines, Narco News investigative journalist Bill Conroy revealed that “A high-ranking Sinaloa narco-trafficking organization member’s claim that US officials have struck a deal with the leadership of the Mexican ‘cartel’ appears to be corroborated in large part by the statements of [...]

Rally for a Nuclear Free Future Sept 20-22 Wash DC

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By Remy Chevalier. Republished from OpEdNews   For Immediate Release August 1 st , 2012 CONTACT: Libbe HaLevy, Communications Coordinator, CAN, info (at) WriteYourBrainsOut (dot) com – 818-353-8399 (9:00 a.m. — 8:00 p.m. Pacific time) Gene Stone, ROSE and CAN, genston (at) sbcglobal (dot) net – 949-233-7724 (7:30 a.m. — 9:00 p.m.) Priscilla Star priscillaastar [...]