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Big crises, radical solutions

July 10, 2009

As the new fiscal year begins, the situation facing states is dire. This was glaringly illustrated when California was forced to issue IOUs for the first time since the Great Depression while it finds a way...

Fantastic response to change

July 10, 2009 By Teresa Albano

We have gotten some great responses to the announcement last week that the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo is publishing daily online.

McNamara and wars lessons which way do we go now?

July 10, 2009 By Susan Webb

On July 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson, head of the Hayden Planetarium, Twittered, “Wondering how many who watched fireworks on July 4 did so because it's fun, forgetting that it commemorates exploding bombs during warfare.” That same...

Is the economic crisis over?

July 10, 2009 By Sam Webb

Beware of talk of better economic times around the corner. We may be over the worst of it; we may have avoided a 1930s-type depression; but it’s quite another thing to suggest that we are on...

An end to violence

July 9, 2009 By Sam Webb

Against the background of the bloodiest century in human history and this decade of war, genocide, boycotts, and threats and counter threats, thanks in large measure to the Bush administration and, in a larger sense, our...