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Sickened and Still Waiting for Justice: 9/11 First Responders and Cold War Nuclear Weapons Workers Battle for Fair Compensation
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (Zadroga Act) and the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) represent two federal reparatory and remedial compensation …
Blowing the Whistle on Big Pharma
(Photo: Cape Town Craig) Kathleen Sharp: It was a combination of mistakes and toothless power. This blood booster was approved during the biotech rush of the 1980s, …
Breast Cancer Behind Bars: How a Prison Sentence Can Become a Death Sentence
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Imagine finding a lump in your breast. Imagine that your efforts to schedule a medical check-up are stymied and you have to …
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Part II: Increasing Reliance on Guest Worker Programs
(Photos: David Bacon) Over the last 25 years, guest worker programs have increasingly become a vehicle for channeling the migration that has stemmed from free market reforms. …
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In State of the Union, Obama Calls for Minimum 30 Percent Tax on Millionaires
During tonight’s State of the Union, President Obama — noting that one quarter of millionaires are able to pay less in taxes than millions of middle class families — …
Kaplan College Closes North Carolina Dental Program After Fraud Exposed
“This is not the program that I signed up for,” North Carolina Kaplan student Jaclin Mack told WSOC North Carolina Eyewitness News Channel 9 about the for-profit Kaplan College …
Pollyanna of Peace?
A man and his son are pushing a shopping cart with their belongings across a devastated American landscape. There has been a global catastrophe, and the few survivors cling …
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Rooted in Politics, Austerity Worsens the Greek Tragedy
The Athenian Municipal Solidarity Center provides meals to homeless and poor residents of Athens. (Credit: Eirini Vourloumis / The New York Times) The Washington Post recently …
As the “Jackals of Egypt” Heighten Attacks on Youth Activists, Others Must Join the Fight
At the end of 2011, the horrendous violence of the Egyptian military police, which is routinely carried out off camera in the privacy of dark, filthy cells in the …
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Part 1: Migration – a Product of Free-Market Reforms
(Photos: David Bacon) A political alliance is developing between countries with a labor export policy and the corporations who use that labor in the global north. Many …