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Amiri Baraka (1934-2014): Poet-Playwright-Activist Who Shaped Revolutionary Politics, Black Culture. HeadlinesJanuary 10, 2014 Obama Meets With Privacy Advocates in NSA Surveillance Review European Parliament Invites Snowden to Testify West Virginia Declares State of Emergency After Chemical Spill in Elk River “Humiliated” Christie Fires Aide Who Ordered Bridge Closure Karzai Releases Dozens of Prisoners in … Continued
Will New Jersey’s Traffic Controversy Jam Gov. Christie’s Presidential Hopes for 2016? In New York City’s Transformed Political Era, Progressives Take Major Posts Under Mayor de Blasio; 50 Years After LBJ’s “War on Poverty,” a Call for a New Fight Against 21st Century Inequality; As U.S. Rushes Weapons to Iraq, New Assault on Fallujah Threatens … Continued
“It Was Time to Do More Than Protest”: 1971 Burglars Who Exposed COINTELPRO Reveal Their Identities. HeadlinesJanuary 8, 2014 Polar Vortex Begins to Lift After 9 Deaths in U.S. Extension of Jobless Benefits Face GOP Challenge Despite Senate Vote JPMorgan Pays $2.6 Billion Fine to Avoid Criminal Charges in Madoff Case Iraq Violence Leaves … Continued
Court Ruling on Gay Marriage Ban Makes Utah an Unlikely New Front in Struggle for LGBT Equality; Weather Whiplash: As Polar Vortex Brings Deep Freeze, Is Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change? From Sandy to Haiyan, Year of Extreme Weather Brings More Coverage of Climate Change; From Funding Climate Deniers to Shadowy Groups, Koch Brothers … Continued
Rethinking Marijuana: As Colorado Opens World’s First Pot Retail Stores, NY to Allow Medical Usage; “Drugs Aren’t the Problem”: Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science & Myths about Addiction; A Socialist Elected in Seattle: Kshama Sawant on Occupy, Fight for 15, Boeing’s “Economic Blackmail.” HeadlinesJanuary 6, 2014 Iraq Loses Control of Fallujah, Key Site … Continued
Texas Student: After Reporting Rape, I Was Accused of “Public Lewdness,” Sent to Disciplinary School; NAFTA at 20: Lori Wallach on U.S. Job Losses, Record Income Inequality, Mass Displacement in Mexico; Zapatista Uprising 20 Years Later: How Indigenous Mexicans Stood Up Against NAFTA “Death Sentence.” HeadlinesJanuary 3, 2014 Sunni Militants Lay Siege to Key … Continued
Newly Elected Mayor Bill de Blasio: NYC Cannot Become the “Exclusive Domain of the One Percent”; Harry Belafonte Urges de Blasio to Fight Poverty, Stop-and-Frisk & “Dickensian Justice System”; Public Advocate Letitia James: Time to Tackle “Gilded Age of Inequality” in New York City; “We Will No Longer Stay Silent To This Classism”: NYC Youth … Continued
Orwellian or a Blunt Tool?: Conflicting Rulings on NSA Spying Set Up Likely Supreme Court Showdown; Glenn Greenwald: The NSA Can “Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make”; Jobless Benefits Cut For 1.3 Million, Despite Highest Long-term Unemployment Since World War II. HeadlinesDecember 30, 2013 Opposition Activists: Over 500 Killed in Syrian Attacks on Aleppo … Continued
