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Strikes at Walmart Warehouses Expose Threats in Supply Chain
Warehouse Workers United picket in Southern California. Theirs was the first of two strikes against Walmart warehouses in one week.
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Wells Fargo Courts Latinos While Investing in Private Prisons That Profit From Detaining Immigrants: Report Calls for Bank to Break Ties
This cycle involves profiting from the detention of vulnerable immigrant communities by understaffing the prisons and cutting costs so that basic food and medical needs are not met. The …
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Repackaging Mitt as a Compassionate Conservative? It’s Too Late
Mitt Romney may be showing his sensitive side on his tour through Ohio, but the American people cannot forget what the real Romney says when no one is looking.
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Democratic Senators Want a Stop to Arctic Drilling
Problems on the Arctic Challenger has caused Shell to give up for the year on drilling for oil in the Arctic waters off Alaska.
Clinton Suggests Link to Qaeda Offshoot in Deadly Libya Attack
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday suggested there was a link between the Qaeda franchise in North Africa and the attack at the American diplomatic mission in …
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After Nearly A Decade Of Declines, Manufacturing Jobs Begin Rebound
Manufacturing slumped in the first year of the Obama administration as the nation dealt with the effects of the recession, but since then, manufacturing has posted job gains in …
Veterans First … and Their Dogs, Too
Congress and the VA have let politics and red tape interfere with two important veterans assistance programs for jobs and mental health.
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Florida GOP Fired Romney Consultant’s Voter Registration Firm After Fraudulent Forms Reported in Palm Beach
Firm owned by notorious GOP operative Nathan Sproul, accused of destroying Democratic registration forms in years past, hired ‘at request of RNC’, still operating in several key swing states.
Is There Any Such Thing as Progressive US Foreign Policy in the Middle East?
The US progressive movement must reconcile positions on US foreign policy that often support US imperial projects abroad with its push for social justice at home.
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South Korea’s Peace Villagers Can’t Stop the Budding US Defense Project, but They’ve Managed to Slow It Down
The people of Jeju are fighting for their coast, for their heritage and for their island against the formidable force of corporate and government collaboration. The faces of the …