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The CIAs Student-Activism Phase

Tom Hayden The Nation
In the 1960s, the agency sought to fight Communism through the students rights movement. There's little reason to think its tactics have changed.

Police Violence Is Not Inevitable

Steve Early YES! Magazine
Four Ways a California Police Chief Connected Cops With Communities A critical look at any institution with as much power and authority invested in it as the police is probably a good thing.

The Mexican Crisis Deepens

Dan La Botz New Politics
An in-depth look at the current political crisis in Mexico, brought about by the murder and kidnapping of students and revelations of governmental corruption.

Living Nightmare for Detained Immigrants in Georgia

Azadeh N. Shahshahani The Hill
Stewart Detention Center is operated by the private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Problems at Stewart include the far-flung location of the facility and resulting isolation of people detained there, physical and verbal abuse, spoiled food and non-potable water, lack of recreation time, minimal access to legal materials, substandard medical care,little oversight or accountability and the absence of any meaningful grievance procedures.

The Fall of Big Don, King Coal’s Brutal Baron

Mike Roselle Counterpunch
Even though the four counts do not include cold blooded murder, we in West Virginia and the rest of the world know that the big man is on trial for the deaths of those men just as the nation knew that Al Capone’s trial on tax evasion was for his part in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. There will be no one in the courtroom or on the jury that doesn’t remember that morning. There is no one in Raleigh County that doesn’t know who ran Massey Energy.

Patrolling the Boundaries Inside America

Robert B. Reich Robert Reich's blog
The boundary separating white Anglo upscale school districts from the burgeoning non-white and non-Anglo populations in downscale communities is fast becoming a flashpoint inside America.

Can Chuy beat Rahm in the Race for Mayor?

Steve Bogira The Chicago Reader
If anyone can overcome the hurdles for a Latino mayoral candidate in Chicago, it's Garcia given his lifetime commitment to a multiracial coalition—not just talking the talk, but 30 years of walking the walk.

The CIA's Student-Activism Phase

Tom Hayden The Natin
In the 1960s, the agency sought to fight Communism through the students’ rights movement. There’s little reason to think its tactics have changed.

On the Trail of an Ancient Mystery

John Markoff New York Times
Although it was not programmable in the modern sense, some have called it the first analog computer.