Analysis
Ecuadorians oust president with mass protests
April 29, 2005News Analysis Ecuador, an impoverished country of 13 million people, is emerging as a major headache for the Bush administration. The people of this oil-rich nation just ousted their third president within seven years and show...
Read moreBushs hypocrisy on Cuba becomes starker
April 29, 2005News Analysis On April 21 in Geneva, Switzerland, the UN Human Rights Commission (HRC) rejected a watered-down Cuban resolution asking the United States to let an HRC team check on the widely reported mistreatment of U.S....
Read moreIvy League graduate teachers strike
April 29, 2005News Analysis NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Refusing to be silenced by the Bush administration’s National Labor Relations Board, graduate student teachers at Yale and Columbia went on strike last week in the first ever Ivy League...
Read moreBlack youth resisting military recruitment
April 29, 2005News Analysis According to a U.S. Army study, unprecedented numbers of African American youth are refusing to join the Army and they are doing so for a very clear reason — opposition to the Iraq war....
Read moreThe middle class and the working class
April 22, 2005People Before Profits What is the middle class and why is it periodically given a status of high exaltation by the ruling class? To answer the second part of the question first: the ruling class seeks...
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