Analysis
The U.S., Iran and nuclear politics
May 12, 2006In the midst of the muddy controversies surrounding the U.S.-Iran nuclear crisis lies a larger struggle for control of the greater Middle East and Central Asian region. The possibility of a U.S. nuclear or other strike...
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Causes of the current oil price shocks
May 5, 2006Economists 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
May 5, 2006The 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
May 5, 2006After 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
April 29, 2006Ever 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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