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BP sued in Ecuadoran courts for Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Environmentalists from several Latin American countries have filed a lawsuit against BP seeking damages from the April 20, 2010, Deepwater…
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Gentrification of park threatens homeless and poor people
Poor people in Richmond often gather in Monroe Park to receive free meals from groups, but the city government and…
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Greek transit workers continue the struggle against privatization
Greek public transit workers held a one-day strike Dec. 8 to protest wage cuts, bonus reductions and the reorganization of…
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A new socialist movement is rising to fight back
There is a reason that Glenn Beck has devoted so much coverage to attacking the PSL and the specter of…
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Obama issues first pardons, ignores Mumia, Peltier, Cuban Five and others
On Dec. 3, Pres. Obama granted nine pardons, the first since he took office, absolving the recipients of various minor…
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WikiLeaks and the political use of the rape charge
The unprecedented international manhunt for Julian Assange on rape allegations is unprecedented and demonstrates that other motives were at play.
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Georgia prisoners strike for end to cruel and unusual punishment
On Dec. 9, prisoners in six state prisons in Georgia went on strike demanding to be paid for the work…
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PSLweb.org launches on WikiBriefs project
PSLweb.org has taken on a project we call "PSL WikiBriefs" to highlight some of the many important revelations contained in…
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Cables reveal extent of U.S. ‘bullying’ at Copenhagen climate meeting
The recent release of 250,000 confidential State Department cables by Wikileaks has exposed the cynical, self-serving motivations of U.S. foreign…
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It is time for labor to ‘take hostages’
"We don't negotiate with hostage-takers," say U.S. officials. But on the biggest security concern facing working-class people in this country—that…
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PSL WikiBrief: U.S. government admits Honduras coup was illegal
Declaring the question of the legality of the 2009 coup in Honduras ???open and shut,??? a diplomatic cable sent by…
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PSL WikiBrief: Shell oil planted spies in the Nigerian government
A 2009 diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks revealed that the oil giant Shell has staff secretly operating in every key…
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PSL WikiBrief: U.S. government lies about the role of Cubans in Venezuela
A diplomatic cable from the U.S. embassy in Caracas distorts Cuba???s internationalist policies in an attempt to discredit the revolutionary…
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PSL WikiBrief: Drug giant Pfizer used blackmail to cover up killing children
In 1996, 11 children died as human guinea pigs in tests by Pfizer, the world???s largest pharmaceutical company, when 100…
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Poll: Only 8 percent of young Afghan men know of 9/11 attacks
The pretext for the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, now the longest war in U.S. history, was the Sept. 11…
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Stop the deportation of Juan Mejia
On Oct. 5, as Juan Mejia was leaving his home in Liverpool, NY to attend class at a local college,…
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A letter from Ron Kovic to young veterans and GIs
The following is a personal appeal from Ron Kovic, Vietnam War veteran and author of Born on the Fourth of…
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After years of government stalling, Black farmers to receive lawsuit settlement
After of years political wrangling, the Senate has passed the "Pigford" settlement, which disperses money to Black farmers in response…
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Nigeria indicts Dick Cheney for bribery
Recently, Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission indicted former U.S. Vice Pres. Dick Cheney for a bribery plot involving Halliburton…
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NYC rally condemns occupation, sham elections in Haiti
On Dec. 10, dozens of Haitians demonstrated alongside progressive allies in front of the United Nations General Headquarters in Dag…
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