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Nearly 500 people marched into the Burlington, Vt., City Council meeting on October 28 to testify for or against the basing of…
Ashley Smith
MOST PEOPLE associate Amnesty International with challenging torture, protesting the death penalty and agitating for the liberation of political prisoners. On top…
AT THE Fort Bragg ceremony honoring the return of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Barack Obama boasted that the U.S. had accomplished…
WHEN THE devastating earthquake struck Port-au-Prince in Haiti last January, it killed 250,000 people, injured another 300,000, destroyed 250,000 houses, displaced 1.5…
TEN MONTHS after the earthquake that killed 300,000 people and drove 2 million people into temporary camps, Haiti is a country betrayed,…
SIX MONTHS after Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake, the promises of the world’s most powerful governments to provide billions in aid to one of…
IN A recent op-ed piece entitled "Ending the Slavery Blame-Game" in the New York Times, renowned African American literary scholar Henry Louis Gates…
The world’s tectonic plates are always in motion, but in the past two months, they seem to have struck more dramatically than…
IT’S NOW more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions…
Ashley Smith of the International Socialist Organization speaks about the devastating earthquake in Haiti and the US military response and re- occupation…