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The Veterans Affairs Scandal and Plans for Downsizing the Social Security Administration
Unfortunately the VA system is not the only part of the government where essential services may be threatened by cutbacks. The Social Security Administration has recently disclosed plans for …
Meet the Organizer Who Pulled Off the “Gap Does More” Hoax
A small online organizing group threw punches at one of the United States' largest corporations in an effort to change the international labor practices of the Gap.
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Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack and Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill for Walmart
Is this a nasty bug in the Obama presidency, or a corrupt core feature?
Brazil’s World Cup 2014: Private Security “Made in the USA“
Security has become a market in itself, and only those who can pay have access to it.
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Landscape of Paranoia
The architecture of city today reflects the emphasis on exclusionary privatized space and the limiting of any genuine commons. It is a landscape of paranoia.
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Covert US Military Training Goes to Africa
We have a poor record of even knowing who the people we train are.
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A Radical Seed Grows in Jackson, Mississippi
In many ways, Jackson, Mississippi, is the ideal place for an economic justice movement to begin because the problems are so dire.
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Police Target Black Children
All across the country black children as young as kindergarteners have been hand cuffed and arrested as if they are adults.
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Woman Gives Birth in Solitary Confinement as Jailers Ignore Cries for Help
Nicole Guerrero's experience was downright horrific.
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Shots Fired. Madness in Progress.
The NRA and its gun lobby pals keep the market jumping.