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News of Massive NSA Surveillance Sparks Outrage
Tyler Bass

Another Klosterfuck
Lindsay Beyerstein

Feature
Guilty in Guatemala
The U.S. owes more than empty apologies in Central America.
Noam Chomsky

Labor
Striking Walmart Workers Bus to Bentonville Seeking Corporate Reform
David Moberg

Comics
3D Guns
Matt Bors

Viewpoint
Obama’s SEC Cop-Out
The new chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission is fresh off Wall Street.
Joel Bleifuss

Alt Press Pick of the Week: Should Climate Activists Ditch the Democrats?
Alternative Press Center

Hospital Workers, Gang Members Unite to Save Safety-Net Hospital
Emma Foehringer Merchant

Labor
Obama’s New Tactic: If You Don’t Eat Your Meat, You Can’t Have Any Pudding
Moshe Z. Marvit

Comics
El Machete Illustrated
Eric Garcia

Labor
Can Illinois Public Employees Win a Fair Pension Deal?
Matthew Blake
Video
Hoax Highlights Discrimination Against Undocumented College Applicants
Cheryl Knobel

Dispatch
Mad Professors
The adjuncts are at the barricades.
Rebecca Burns

Feature
How China Changed After Tiananmen Square
China remains as politically oppressive as ever, but there has been a sideways revolution.
Andrew Lam

5 Crucial Facts About the Bradley Manning Trial
Alex Kane, AlterNet

California Governor’s Oh-So-Passive Resistance to Fracking
Alternative Press Center

March Against Monsanto Yields Major Victory
Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature
Time for the Democrats to Go Nuclear
Harry Reid has nothing to lose by banning the filibuster of appointments.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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