Greek Rioters Clash With Police as 10,000 Protesters Take to the Streets - Protesters clashed with riot police as more than 10,000 people marched through central Athens during a nationwide general strike against the government's harsh new austerity measures.

War in a Box by Norman Solomon - The event on the House floor ... was monumental -- the first major congressional debate about U.S. military operations in Afghanistan since lawmakers authorized the invasion of that country in autumn 2001. But, as Rep. Patrick Kennedy noted ... , the House press gallery was nearly empty. He aptly concluded: "It's despicable, the national press corps right now."

A Challenge to Corporate Feudalism? by Lewis Seiler & Dan Hamburg - For the first time in more than four decades, a militant student movement is taking shape across the country. This movement is in direct response to the IMF-style "austerity measures" being waged against all American citizens in the form of new mandatory taxes and a range of government-imposed belt-tightening measures designed to restore "fiscal responsibility."