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The First American Freedom Fighter
A half millennium ago (1512) this Feb. 2, the Spaniards felt they had put an end to the first major resistance to the European/Christian conquest of the Americas by executing Hatuey, an Indigenous freedom fighter who fought them on Hispaniola and Cuba. But Hatuey's spirit of independence survived, as William Loren Katz notes.
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Feb 1, 2012, 12:28pm
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Whitewashing History in Arizona
The dispute over Arizona's shutting down of ethnic studies programs that cite white exploitation of Chicano and Indian communities has focused on the impact on Mexican-American children, but the new policy also affects students from Native American communities, as Bill Means explains to Dennis J. Bernstein..."Arizona has painted themselves into a corner on the issue of human rights, especially as it pertains to censorship, especially as it pertains to restricting the education access of children.
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Jan 26, 2012, 2:03pm
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Death Valley students face loss of lifeline
California has pulled funding for school transportation for the rest of this fiscal year and may eliminate it entirely next year. In Death Valley, where some students have a two-hour round trip, the cut is 'catastrophic.'...The transportation cuts amount to discrimination. The poor won't have an opportunity to educate their kids, and this is the only chance they have to get out of poverty...
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Jan 22, 2012, 4:25pm
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How Not to Celebrate Liberty
When the National Defense Authorization Act cleared Congress on Dec. 15, 2011, some critics noted the irony of the date, the 220th anniversary of the ratified Bill of Rights.....but in 1876, during that centennial year - a severe and simultaneous assault on the basic rights of Native Americans and African-Americans occurred sending the country careening in a new direction.
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Jan 20, 2012, 5:24pm
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EPA, BIA & Tribes Clash Over Radioactive Dump Cleanup
"Last month, the Hopi Tribe sued the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) over the landfill (Tuba City Open Dump.) that the federal agency operated for nearly 50 years. The lawsuit is the latest in a decade-long push by the Navajo and Hopi tribes to get the landfill cleaned up...The Hopi tribe - say drinking water for at least 1,800 people is in danger of being contaminated by a moving plume of underground uranium. And they believe time is running out.
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Jan 19, 2012, 12:05pm
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America, a Land Made for the 1 Percent
Over the past three decades, right-wing policies have diverted the wealth of America into fewer and fewer hands, and a right-wing Supreme Court has let money dominate U.S. politics like never before, challenging Woody Guthrie's idea that "this land was made for you and me," Bill Moyers and Michael Winship note.
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Jan 14, 2012, 10:44am
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An Act of Cowardice that Must Surely be Unrivalled in History: Challenging the Assumption of Valour
Kim Petersen - 2003: Time and again we heard about the brave US-UK troops fighting to liberate Iraq. The way the adjective 'brave' was so liberally attributed, one might be forgiven for thinking that ipso facto invocation of bravery made it so...In the Far East, communities that host military bases would scoff at this automatic bestowal of valour in the military. There are plenty of civilian victims of criminal acts by American servicemen.
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Jan 12, 2012, 11:49am
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Fleecing the Angry Whites
Subtly and not so subtly, Republican presidential contenders are playing the race card again, hoping to win over the votes of angry whites by implicitly blaming the shrinking of the middle-class on preferential treatment of blacks and other minorities, reports Robert Parry.
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Jan 11, 2012, 1:53pm
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Fraud and Folly: The Untold Story of General Electric's Subprime Debacle
The industrial giant jumped into the subprime business in 2004, lending blue-chip respectability to the market for risky home loans...It's a tale of a 134-year-old industrial concern that's transformed itself into a financial services juggernaut. It's also a story about breakdowns in corporate compliance systems amid the chase to cash in on the latest innovations in high and low finance.
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Jan 7, 2012, 4:28pm
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Slip-Sliding to War with Iran
Having apparently learned nothing from the Iraq disaster, many of the same political/media players are reprising their tough-guy roles in a new drama regarding Iran. These retread performances may make another war, with Iran, hard to avoid, writes Robert Parry
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Dec 29, 2011, 4:54pm
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Ten Good Things About a (Not So) Bad Year
1. The Arab Spring protests were so astounding that even Time magazine recognized "The Protester" as Person of the Year... 3. On September 17 Occupy Wall Street was born in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District... 4. After 8 long years, U.S. troops were finally withdrawn from Iraq...6. The bloated Pentagon budget is no longer immune from budget cuts.
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Dec 27, 2011, 12:20pm
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Collateral Damage From Fukushima Hits Europe
BERLIN, Dec 25, 2011 (IPS) - Several leading European electricity providers and nuclear power plant constructors now count as part of the collateral damage caused by the tsunami that destroyed the Japanese nuclear power plant of Fukushima last March...Fukushima put an end to the myth that highly industrialised countries like Japan could guarantee absolute safety and control over the production of nuclear energy
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Dec 25, 2011, 2:07pm
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Will Iraq Debacle Prevent Iran War?
Robert Parry - "Neoconservatives are livid over President Obama's declaration that the Iraq War is over, fearing that its disastrous outcome will undercut plans for a new war with Iran. But Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says, if elected, he stands ready to join Israel in invading Iran.
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Dec 15, 2011, 4:16pm
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Saudi Faults Israel/Iran for Arms Race
A prominent Saudi leader says his country might have to develop a nuclear bomb if Israel's nuclear arsenal is not dismantled and if Iran is not dissuaded from obtaining nukes, an indication that oil-rich Saudi Arabia sees the WMD threat as coming from Israel as well as Iran, reports Robert Parry.
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Dec 7, 2011, 4:00pm
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WikiLeaks: The Spy Files
"It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for 'political opponents' are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry.
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Dec 1, 2011, 12:05pm
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