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Libya and Japan grab Germany’s attention

March 22, 2011 By Victor Grossman

Elections in an East German state were largely overshadowed by the news from Japan and, far more, from Libya.

Feeling kinship with Japan’s tsunami victims

March 15, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Posted prominently beside the road leading out of town at the mouth of the Dungeness River is a sign, "Tsunami Evacuation Route." In the past we paid little attention to it. But we are now.

The people of Japan are in our hearts

March 14, 2011 By PW Editorial Board

We extend our deepest sympathy and solidarity to the people of Japan in the unfathomable tragedy that is still unfolding, and we think about the wider implications.

Right-wing “blizzard narrative” is anti-worker snow job

February 2, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky

As a massive winter storm pounds much of the country, the tea party/Republicans are pushing a disastrous narrative: strangle vital public services, like snowplowing, then blame public workers and their unions.

Hire the unemployed to meet the snow emergency

February 2, 2011 By Jarvis Tyner

It’s time to hire the unemployed at union wages - start with laid off public workers - and help save lives and clean up this mess.