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Obama’s Praise for Mandela Is an Insult
When President Obama denounces world leaders who praise Nelson Mandela while crushing dissent and resisting reform in their own countries, he should have had a look in the mirror.
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Supreme Court Dismisses Mulhall v. Unite Here, Giving Labor a Lucky Escape
In the “card check” process, one type of neutrality agreement, an employer agrees to recognize a union if a majority of workers sign union cards.
Is Anyone Happy With the New Congressional Budget Deal?
With so much dissension among the GOP, you would think that would mean that progressives would find the budget something they could get on board with, but not everyone …
The Transformation of America’s Energy Economy
By voting to break away from a corporate utility and form its own municipal power company, Boulder, Colorado is leading a national shift towards local control and renewable energy.
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Did ALEC Found SPN? 1991 Report Suggests So, Exposes SPN Agenda
The Madison Group, the predecessor to the State Policy Network was “launched by ALEC ... and housed in the Chicago-based Heartland Institute,” says a 1991 report.
The Pension-Busters’ Playbook
The manipulations behind the attack on pensions in Detroit's bankruptcy.
Conservatives and Progressives Agree: Congress Should Not Cut Unemployment Benefits
Extremists who think government support for the unemployed is holding the economy back don't have the facts on their side.
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Powers Confronts Power and History in New Book
Nicholas Powers' new book takes the reader on an intense journey through the hot spots of inequity and iniquity in the first decade of this century.
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Eyewitness to America Betraying Mandela’s South Africa: The Gore-Mbeki Commission
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo witnessed the dawn of the Nelson Mandela government and the United States' back-door complicity with old-guard Afrikaner political officials.
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Thom Hartmann | Are Economic Royalists Leading the US Over a Precipice?
Was the near meltdown of our economy at the end of the Bush administration just a prelude to a more crushing collapse? Thom Hartmann says yes! Read an excerpt …