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Labor Not Loyalty on May 1
Two key steps have helped to ruin May Day in the United States. First, Labor Day was created at a completely different time of year — labor day without …
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Witch Hunt for the Zombie Voter
Washington - Republicans are waging the most concerted campaign to prevent or discourage citizens from exercising their legitimate voting rights since the Jim Crow days of poll taxes and …
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British Panel Finds Murdoch Unfit to Lead Media Empire
London - In a damning report after months of investigation into the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers, a parliamentary panel here concluded on Tuesday that he was …
Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty and Freaky Weather Into the Arena
When I was growing up, I ate books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and since I was constantly running out of reading material, I read everyone else’s — which …
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Why This May Day Matters
If the mainstream media was confused about Occupy Wall Street in its early days in Zuccotti Park, they’re bound to be completely befuddled this May Day. May Day …
How to Rebrand Occupy
“The 99% Movement” has something for everyone, even the left, but is it Occupy? By all measures the Occupy movement is a powerful brand. It has thousands of spin-offs …
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The Haymarket Affair and the Origins of May Day
(Photo: Frank Edwards / Flickr)May 1st is May Day, the international workers' holiday honoring the labor movement. May Day is celebrated in at least 80 countries worldwide, from Argentina …
Mideast Tweeters Probe the Tenderest of Authoritarian Sore Spots
"On the one hand, it's deeply worrying that the government is seeking to create a surveillance culture that encompasses spying on all digital media. "On the other, that same …
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Economists, Liquidity Mongers and the Banker Assault on Financial Reform
This has been a bad stretch for advocates of financial reform – and therefore for the economy as a whole. One after the other, new financial regulations contained in …
Afghanistan’s “Closed” Partnership Agreement with US Proclaimed
“Today, Afghanistan and the U.S. initialed and locked the text of the strategic partnership agreement,” said Karzai's spokesman, Aimal Faizi. “This means the text is closed...” Why ‘lock’ or …