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As the hunger strike against solitary confinement in California prisons enters a critical sixth week, Governor Jerry Brown is preparing to force-feed…
Tom Hayden
After forty years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden still is a leading voice for ending the war in Iraq, erasing sweatshops, saving the environment, and reforming politics through greater citizen participation. Currently he is writing and advocating for US Congressional hearings on exiting Iraq. This year he drafted and lobbied successfully for Los Angeles and San Francisco ordinances to end all taxpayer subsidies for sweatshops. He recently has taught at Pitzer College, Occidental College, and Harvard's Institute of Politics. He has written eyewitness accounts for The Nation , where he serves on the editorial board, about the global justice movements in Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Chiapas, and India. He is the author or editor of thirteen books.
When Secretary of State John Kerry described Egypt's military coup as restoring democracy, it was a classic example of the periodic bond…
The ruling by federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin against New York’s stop-and-frisk policing is the equivalent of Brown v. Board of Education…
Will California Governor Jerry Brown, a lifetime opponent of capital punishment, take responsibility for the death of hunger strikers in solitary confinement…
For Trayvon Martin and his family I feel a sadness that will not lift. For America, I feel a dread that certain…
Senate immigration bill SB 744 may be a savvy way to divide the Republican Party in the coming elections, or a small…
Anthony Ingraffea is a Cornell professor who has been immersed in the science, politics and resistance to the development of oil and…
The United States doesn’t classify the Egyptian military’s overthrow of the Morsi regime as a “coup” since that would suspend $1.3 billion…
We are edging closer to the neo-conservative dream of total conflagration in the Muslim Middle East. Despite only 11 percent public support…
In a development that threatens to haunt the Obama presidency and smother democracy itself, a new surveillance program employing “Big Data” has…