Marianne Arens

“Intern Nation” reality is corporate dream

December 7, 2011 By LaBarre Blackman

Just when you thought the absurdities of capitalism couldn't be more insulting and degrading, the bosses have come up with yet another offense.

Confronting the walking dead: John Quiggin’s “Zombie Economics”

November 8, 2011 By Frederick Barr

The zombie metaphor is both witty and apt when discussing how ideas about society and finance that have alarmingly failed refuse to stay dead and buried.

Cuba and Venezuela shape new generation of “Revolutionary Doctors”

July 28, 2011 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Brouwer traces the evolution of Cuba's health system that has led to Cuban-Venezuelan collaboration in providing health care for their people and medical assistance throughout the world.

Book Review: Fascism, war and struggle through one person’s eyes

July 13, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

"In 1945, Germany and Japan surrendered and World War II ended ... Our stories must be heard and remembered."

Sugar’s bittersweet history

May 11, 2011 By Teresa Albano

The history of sugar is a fascinating, complicated and ongoing journey that takes us through the brutal depths of slavery to the heights of resistance and abolition, to the ingenuity of invention from Hershey's milk chocolate...