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Report: America’s Domestic Workers Raise Kids, Care for Seniors, Run Households Without Benefits, Protections or a Living Wage
Domestic workers and caregivers toil for long hours, low pay and few legal protections.
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Obama’s FCC Set to Give Rupert Murdoch a Media Monopoly
We should be scared that the FCC will approve rule-changes that allow Rupert Murdoch's empire to expand.
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Quantico psychiatrist Claims Bradley Manning’s Pretrial Conditions Worse than Death Row
Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of …
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What “Grand Bargainers” Simpson and Bowles Really Stand For
Bernie Sanders: If enacted, the plan put forward by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles will cause major economic pain to virtually every American.
Sucking Up to the Military Brass
Few things have characterized the post-9/11 American world more than our worshipful embrace of our generals.
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US As World-Class Bully
The latest international incident involving the United States and Iran occurred on November 1st when fighter planes belonging to Iran shot at a US drone and missed. The Obama …
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Anticipatory Compliance the Obama Way
In his reflections on the destruction of European Jewry, the late Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg described a number of ways in which Jews "tried to avert the full force …
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A War of Gods: Occupy, Community and the Sacred
Our perception of the sacred determines the community we seek. The sacred isn't only a matter of belief; it is also an expression of where we live and whom …
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Challenging President Morsi On Tahrir Square
As a part of delegations over the past four years that have made their way to Gaza, we have stopped in Cairo to pick up needed authorizations. This week …
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Stevie Wonder, Peace Activist, To Fundraise for the IDF
Longtime civil rights and Apartheid activist and musician Stevie Wonder was just named lead performer at the Friends of the Israeli Defense Force annual fundraising gala.