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People of circumpolar north meet for first time to celebrate ancestral feats of agility and strength

Adapted from a longer piece in the current issue of New Politics (see link below). Fighting corporate education reform is less about restoring the old system to its former glory than building a just one for the first time.

Low birth weight, childhood lead poisoning, pre-term births, and infant mortality rate all go hand in hand with the crime rate—but there are significant differences in how neighboring communities are affected.

Cuts up copies of HIV that have inserted themselves into the genome.

In the largest protest in decades, Palestinians throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem marched in solidarity with the people of Gaza. At least two protestors were killed and more than 100 wounded in clashes with Israeli Security Forces.

The small San Francisco Bay Area city of Richmond is no longer a company town, but the giant Chevron Corporation is attempting to use its tremendous wealth and influence to return the city to the days when its City Council majority was commonly known as the "Chevron Five."

India ranks an abysmal 101st in progress towards bridging the gender gap among the 136 nations surveyed by the World Economic Forum in 2013. This is due, in part, to the fact that 160 million Indian women are confined to their homes performing so-called household duties. While women comprise only 14-15 percent of the formal labor economy, women are increasingly forced to manufacture garments and handmade items in the home, as part of an unregulated "informal economy."

Hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, a right-wing Republican, has found allies among former President Bill Clinton's team in his efforts to reap super profits by squeezing the economic life out of Argentina. Argentina is but the latest victim of "Wall Street vultures," who prey upon economically distressed countries by buying up the bonds of debt-strapped countries for "pennies on the dollar" and then demand payment in full.

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has banned a radio advertisement from B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, which listed the names of children killed in Gaza. The IBF ruled the human rights organization's advertisement was 'politically controversial' and banned it. B'Tselem's appeal to the IBF was rejected July 23rd. It will petition Israel's supreme court on Sunday, July 27th, to get the ban overturned.

Facing a wave of anger over concessions—and with the 2016 election fast approaching—Teamster brass are taking aim at members' right to vote.