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Hot and Crusty Bakery Workers Seal the Deal on Unionization
The agreement includes wage increases, paid vacation and sick days, grievance and arbitration procedures, and a union hiring hall.
From Dream to Reality in the Philippines
The city of Alaminos is pioneering zero waste in the Philippines with an energetic fusion of bottom-up planning and community participation.
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Tax Incentives to Companies Bleeding Towns Dry, With Few Results
States, counties and cities are giving up more than $80 billion each year to companies, with few results.
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The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: Full Color Excerpt, By America’s Top Satirical Newswriters
Aa . u03b1 . u00c6, first letter of the English alphabet and your last opportunity to come to terms with the fact that you hold in your hands the …
Fracking’s Health Calamities Left to Fester
Fracking has become the new gold rush for those who stand to benefit. But for those who stand in the way, it can be devastating.
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Fossil Fuel Lobby in the Driver’s Seat at Doha
A new scientific report shows that global warming can be kept well under two degrees C, but only if most of the known deposits of coal, oil and gas …
Israel’s Latest Assault on Gaza – What Really Happened
The official storyline is that Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defence because it had every right to defend itself. The facts, however, suggest otherwise.
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Loss and Damage From Climate Change Must Not Become the “New Normal“
As United Nations climate talks get underway this week in Doha, Qatar, they show a subtle, unsettling shift in the global climate change debate.
Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud and IAEA Credulity
The graph of the relationship between energy and power shown in the AP story has now been revealed to contain absurdly large errors indicating its fraudulence.
Obama Breaks the Golden Rule on Drones
Tragically, by firing drones into a nation that weu2019re not even at war with, weu2019re setting a dangerous moral precedent for the future of drone warfare.