Opinion

                
  • Causes of the current oil price shocks

    Causes of the current oil price shocks

    May 5, 2006

    Economists attending an April energy conference sponsored by Johns Hopkins University were in general agreement that a “slow-motion supply shock amounting now to a 2 million barrel per day aggregate disruption” was the chief cause of...

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  • Senate Republicans feel street heat

    Senate Republicans feel street heat

    May 5, 2006

    The massive immigrant rights demonstrations, work stoppages, boycotts and voter registration efforts, embraced by millions of immigrants and their supporters from coast to coast May 1, have sent a powerful message to Congress: We are Americans...

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  • Military intervention is no answer for Darfur

    Military intervention is no answer for Darfur

    May 5, 2006

    After a lull lasting more than a year, the corporate press is, once again, zeroing in on the situation in Sudan’s Darfur region. This sudden attention corresponds with a drive to build a national political movement...

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  • EDITORIAL: May Day, now more than ever

    EDITORIAL: May Day, now more than ever

    April 29, 2006

    Ever since 1890, May Day has celebrated the unity and fighting spirit of working people around the world. This year more than in many decades, workers in the U.S. will be in the streets May Day,...

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  • Immigrant rights forces keep up the heat

    Immigrant rights forces keep up the heat

    April 29, 2006

    The continuing mass upsurge for immigrant rights, with hundreds of May 1 demonstrations being organized nationwide, drew a reaction from the Bush administration last week. Nationwide raids by the Department of Homeland Security on April 19-20...

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