In the wake of the natural disaster, the real need is to go beyond a freeze on payments and to promote debt cancellation for impoverished countries.
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With a White House that uses El Salvador as a model for Iraq, we still have much to learn from the assassination of Archbishop Romero twenty-five years ago.
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The departed Pope's vision of an alternative globalization should challenge narrow debate about "moral values."
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How 100% debt cancellation for poor countries—now being debated by wealthy nations—was transformed from an implausible demand into a winning issue, and what barriers lie ahead for the debt relief movement.
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The White House's failure to push forward its latest "free trade" deal is a victory for working people throughout the Americas.
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Ten years of pressure led to change of wealthy nations' position.
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The G8 debt deal should provide an opportunity for us to claim our victories while still pushing for more.
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With polls turning and Congress restless, timing is ripe for a return of organized resistance to the war in Iraq.
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Barbara Ehrenreich moves up the class ladder.
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Defying the Bush Administration's neoconservative worldview, El Salvador's historic Truth Commission Report has once again become a living document.