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Marikana mine massacre reflects South Africa’s persistent inequality and social turmoil

August 21, 2012 By Mark Waller

More astute analysis highlights the appalling situation of South Africa's mining communities as being fertile ground for the crisis that has developed at Marikana.

U.S. military takes on Honduras

May 29, 2012 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

The drug "war" is used to justify U.S. military intervention in Honduras, now a way station for drugs moving from South America to U.S. consumers.

U.S. and Korea implement free trade agreement

March 16, 2012 By Pedro Conceicao

The United States and South Korea mark the beginning of their free trade pact; labor and farmers remain opposed to deal as too procorporate.

“Bread, freedom, human dignity”: Mass protest returns to Tahrir Square

January 26, 2012 By Susan Webb

Hundreds of thousands rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square and in other Egyptian cities Wednesday on the first anniversary of the Jan. 25, 2011, uprising that led to the ouster of dictator Hosni Mubarak.

U.S. last in unionization among developed countries

November 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The U.S. is dead last among 21 top developed nations in both unionization rates and union coverage of the workforce and it's not because of globalization or high technology.