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Does ALEC Want You to Work Even if You’re Sick?
Governor Rick Scott has signed a bill suppressing ‘living wage’ and paid sick-leave policies for Florida workers.
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Tar Sands Coal Export Boom: Petcoke Exports Second Highest Ever in April
A filthy fuel with even more severe climate impacts than coal is leaving port bound for foreign power plants.
Five “High-Value” Guantanamo Detainees Improperly Presumed Guilty
Everyone charged with a crime under US law is to be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. But June pre-trial hearings in the cases of five men charged …
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The Pornification of Popular Culture
The extreme has become mainstream, but if we are all at the transgressive forefront, we many not realize it when we've gone too far.
Shelby County: Congress Must Check and Balance the Roberts 5’s Legislation from the Bench
The Roberts 5 richly deserve the label of Ku Klux Kourt that Greg Palast [“Ku Klux Kourt Kills King's Dream Law, Replaces Voting Rights Act With Katherine Harris Acts”] …
Austerity Blitz: Eurozone Notes From Beyond the Grave
Tough austerity measures imposed by the EU without any consideration for the damage such policies inflict on human lives and the social fabric of societies in general have generated …
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It’s Climate Change: I Told You So
We canu2019t resurrect the 19 firefighters who gave their lives in Arizona this weekend, but we can start to listen to what the scientific community is telling us about …
Anarchism in Egypt — An Interview from Tahrir Square
I met Mohammed Hassan Aazab earlier this year over tea at a table of young anarchists in downtown Cairo. The anniversary of the revolution had just passed with massive …
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On DOMA, Right-Wing Justices Got It Right — and Wrong
No one has ever accused Justice Antonin Scalia of timidity. So it's not surprising that his opinion in United States v. Windsor, the case that struck down the federal …
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What’s your choice? Ignore, kill or engage?
There are three ways to deal with your enemies: ignore them, kill them or engage them in dialogue to seek a mutually beneficial arrangement for living together.We all know …