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The Quiet Extermination of Labor Rights From Human Rights
While progressives and labor are arguing, sometimes viciously, over laboru2019s current sorry state, one thing progressives havenu2019t done is serious self-examination on how and where this abandonment of labor …
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Moody’s Cuts Credit Ratings of 15 Big Banks
The credit downgrades could do more damage to their bottom lines and further unsettle equity markets.
Election Countdown 2012: Florida Agrees on Tuition Hike for State Universities, and More
Daily countdown to the election, with links that keep you in the know!
Inventing Human Rights
Today, more than ever before, we need a set of rights to education and knowledge anchored in a concept of equality as a buttress to an emerging global system …
From Agent Orange to “Kill Lists”: “Brilliant” Psy-Ops Become the News
On 28 May, President Obama launched a campaign to falsify the history of the war in Vietnam.
Tom Horne, Death Threats and the US Constitution
Arizona school's then-superintendent, Tom Horne, unleashed what would become a six-year campaign to dismantle Tucson's highly successful Mexican-American studies (MAS) department.
Domestic Violence Survivors Battle Within the Courts: Confronting Retaliatory Litigation
The victim is being forced to defend herself against a malicious prosecution lawsuit brought by her abuser and former husband for the simple fact that she called the police …
Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us
Until recently, scientists and environmental officials have assumed that deep layers of rock beneath the earth would safely entomb the [fracking] waste for millennia.
How the US Government, Banks, Prison-Industrial Complex, Corrupt Officials, Businesses, Law Enforcement, Racists and the CIA Profit From Illegal Drugs
While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Corporate Oligarchy Trumps the Public Option, and More
Thom Hartmann talks the supreme court's recent decision (or lack thereof), European austerity, Fast and Furious documents scandal, and more.