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Solidarity with the UC Student Protests; Education is our Right!
 Stewart A. Alexander & Billy Wharton
The Socialist Party USA stands in solidarity with the University of California (UC) student protesters. Higher education should not be treated as a commodity, whose price is determined by supply and demand. Receiving an education is a social right.
America is Down but She is Never Out
 Doug Thompson
Lots of talk about America's failures. Our country is down, some day. Others say she is finished Sorry, I can't accept that. Yes, America is in trouble. Has been for some time.
 Top 10 Kick-Ass Native Americans
 Ryan McKee
The American Thanksgiving celebrates a heavily fictionalized story of pilgrims and Native Americans sitting down to a bountiful, peaceful feast. However, the first Thanksgiving probably consisted a handful of starving settlers dumbfounded that they were still alive and eating food previously thought to be inedible, like eel and corn.
Are Veterans Lives Worth Less?
 David Lord
Rush Limbaugh summed it up perfectly, 'I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the 9/11 casualty and those who die serving our country in uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with 9/11.'
The Real Story Behind Thanksgiving
 Michael Rosenberg
When I was a kid, Thanksgiving was my favorite holiday. But I think Thanksgiving is every kid's favorite holiday, other than maybe Halloween. Unfortunately, as so often happens in today's society, people forget the true meaning of Thanksgiving and the story behind the holiday. So let's jog your memory...
United States Backs Illegal Elections in Honduras, Betraying Process to Restore Constitutional Order
 Tom Loudon
Given the deepening human rights crisis in Honduras, it is widely recognized that conditions for holding free, fair and transparent elections on November 29, just days from now, do not exist.
Obama is Worse than Bush
 Doug Thompson
In 2008, many Americans voted for Barack Obama hoping they were ridding Washington of eight years of abuses by George W. Bush. Instead, especially when it comes to abuses in freedom, all those Americans got for their efforts was a new George W. Bush in black face.
U.S. Needs to Strengthen Animal Protection Laws
 Sherwood Ross
American law "does nothing to genuinely protect animals, nor does it recognize their true value and special place in our homes and within our families," two animal rights authorities say.
Animal, Vegetable, Miserable
 Gary Steiner
Lately more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised. Were the animals humanely treated? Did they have a good quality of life before the death that turned them into someone’s dinner?
PFP Gubernatorial Candidate Alexander Condemns UC Tuition Hikes
Peace and Freedom Party
When the University of California's Board of Regents made the decision this past Wednesday to increase college tuitions by a whopping 32 percent, tens of thousands of college students received a wake-up call in capitalism 101.
Obama’s Failure to Close Guantánamo by January Deadline Is Disastrous
Andy Worthington
President Obama’s admission in China that he will miss his self-imposed deadline for the closure of Guantánamo is disastrous for the majority of the 215 men still held in the detention facility, and for those who hoped, ten months ago, that the president would move swiftly to close this bitter icon of the Bush administration’s lawless detention and interrogation policies in the "war on terror."
Discrepancy Indexes
 Guillermo Ramon Adames y Suari
One of the most difficult tasks in the United Nations was to evaluate projects suggested by the Member States. As an organization whose opinion was requested and that evaluation proper, was part of the procedure for the authorization and finally the financing of a project under the UN heading. We had to evaluate what was suggested as a potential educational project: I worked for UNESCO for 20 yrs.
Will We Ever Stop the Killings?
Sherwood Ross
Every time the young stick-up man tugged at my companion's purse with his left hand, she would pull back, causing the muzzle of the pistol he held in his right hand to swing back and forth. Its line of fire each time was directed across my chest and if he accidentally or deliberately squeezed the trigger this piece might never have been written.
The Indict Bush and Cheney Movement is on the Move!
 IndictBushNow.org
Ninety-six organizations and prominent individuals have signed on to a call for Congress to take action against torture. They are demanding that Congressional subcommittees subpoena Bush, Cheney and others so that they must answer for their criminal acts.
A New United Movement Stops Mexico for a Day
 Tamara Pearson
The government’s firing of 44,000 electricity workers, members of the county’s most combative and independent union, SME (Mexican Electrical Union), became catalyst for a movement of people deeply angry at both an unfair economic system, and towards a president who, most studies admit, used fraud to win the elections in 2006.
Calderón Swallows Bitter Pill
 The News
At long last, and late, Congress has approved the 2010 government operational budget with cuts for many secretariats and increases for a few.
 Sex, Lies and Sarah Palin, Amy Goodman, and Fighting Drones
 GRITtv
Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life, is out, and the corporate media has been all Palin, all the time. We wonder just what it is about the former Alaskan governor that keeps people coming back for more. Is it her folksy ways, her sex appeal, her gender, or her willingness to completely disregard the advice of well-intentioned handlers?
The Palin Effect: How Sarah Palin Made Herself Indispensable While Destroying the Republican Party
 Max Blumenthal
In a Republican Party hoping to rebound in 2010 on the strength of a newly energized and ideologically aroused conservative grassroots, Palin's influence is now unparalleled.
Welcome Home, War! How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties
 Alfred W. McCoy
In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W. Bush.
Health Care, Not Assimilation: American Indians and Alaskan Natives in the Wake of Health Care Reform
 Frank Joseph Smecker
While the health care reform debate continues throughout the country, America's indigenous peoples suffer from some of the worse conditions imaginable. Comprising only 1.6 percent of the general population, American Indians and Native Alaskans have not, do not, and more than likely will not receive adequate, if any, health care by the time the Democrats and Republicans are finished.
Apartheid in America
 Brenda Norrell
As American Indians and persons of conscience prepare for a month of actions in November, there is a "shhhh" hush in the US over the continued CIA kidnappings, secret renditions and US-sponsored torture.
Alexander: Gov. Schwarzenegger Should Investigate A.G. Jerry Brown's Office
Peace and Freedom Party 2010
Stewart Alexander, a candidate for California Governor, says California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger should launch an independent investigation of the illegal telephone recordings that occurred by the communications director of California Attorney General Jerry Brown.
Signing of Colombia Bases Deal Could Set the Stage for 'Expeditionary Warfare'
 Moira Birss
After several months of secrecy and controversy, on October 30th the US and Colombia signed an agreement to allow the United States military extensive access to seven Colombian bases, notwithstanding serious concerns about true intentions and eventual consequences of the deal.
Mexico and the Crisis of a Dependent Economy
 Laura Carlsen
The well-known 19th century Mexican saying — "poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States" — has become more poignant today than ever in the context of the global economic crisis.
In This Together
Roger Cohen
After 9/11 half of America went to war and the rest went shopping. Wall Street coined newfangled financial instruments to leverage the universe and Main Street fell for them. Division grew, fellowship withered.
Veterans Day or Rulers Day?
 Bob Richards
How is it that Veterans Day gets turned around into US Military Hegemony Day? The airwaves were buried under an avalanche of lip service about veterans, but the moving lips were all about the myth that the warfare decisions this country's rulers make have something to do with anyone's freedom.
Maybe Bin Laden is Just Misunderstood
 Dennes Longoria
So much room for speculation, in regards to Major Hasan going on a rampage on his own troops... The way I look at it, this is a microcosm of 9-11 with Hasan essentially playing the role of Bin Laden.
November 11, 2009: Happy Veterans Day
 David Lord
To all the Men and Women who have served in uniform I send my best and thank you for that service. The words I use to convey my gratitude fall short, as we know the public acclaim for your service was speckled at best and sometimes sparse. In fact it fades with each new generation, with each new crisis...
PFP Candidate Alexander Propose Releasing 50,000 California Inmates
Peace and Freedom Party 2010
In 2006, while running as a candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, Stewart Alexander proposed an ambitious plan to release 50,000 California inmates to reduce the over crowded conditions in the California prison system. Now, running as a candidate for California Governor, Stewart Alexander says he is again committed to releasing 50,000 California inmates by the end of 2012.
How Much is the U.S. to Blame for Mexico's Drug War?
 Sylvia Longmire
There are two main issues for which the United States has recently taken at least partial responsibility in Mexico’s drug war—southbound weapons trafficking (the supply side), and drug trafficking (the demand side).
A Warm Day in Berlin
 Dick Meister
It was 20 years ago this month that the Berlin Wall finally fell, one of the last vestiges of the Cold War. But though it's long gone, I, and I'm sure many others, have not forgotten that Soviet-erected barrier which had stood for 28 years as a nearly impenetrable divider between the Soviet East and the West.
What The Fall Of The Wall Meant For A Generation Of Men
 Steven Shaw
Each generation has an epoch-defining moment. For some, it may have been the moon landings, for others, the attacks on the World Trade Center. For many, the fall of the Berlin Wall ranks alongside these other moments as one of those “where were you when…” events.
Why Is It?
 Dennis Kucinich
Why is it the United States has finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?
The Big Banks Get Drunk, the Little Ones Wasted
 Sylvain Lapoix
By refusing to increase its key interest rate, the US Federal Reserve indirectly admits the fragility of the financial system: while the big banks - which have taken refuge in trading activities - are coping, the smallest banks - in contact with the real economy - pay the price for unemployment and bankruptcies.
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