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Unions Beat GOP Candidates as New Hampshire Blocks Anti-Labor Law
GOP presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, on November 29, 2011. Perry urged the …
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Mobilizing Men to End Violence Against Women
United Nations - Since it launched in 1997, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women has distributed more than 78 million dollars to 339 projects around …
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Occupy Demands: Let’s Radicalize Our Analysis of Empire, Economics, Ecology
Occupy Wall Street, New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: thethingsitdoes) There's one question that pundits and politicians keep posing to the Occupy gatherings around the country: What …
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The Global Occupy Movement Challenges the Transnational Corporate Class Propaganda Machine
The international concentration of wealth and military power is endangering not only the personal freedoms and life chances of billions of people, but the potentiality for life on earth …
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Speculators Drive Cotton Price Volatility, Hurting Farmers and Consumers
Washington - Texas cotton grower Brad Heffington speaks Wall Street's language of hedges, correlation charts and the like as easily as he discusses weevils and pesticides. Yet today his …
Pakistan Border Post Attack a Big Loss for US War Policy
Washington - The U.S. military and the Barack Obama administration have been thrown into confusion by the attack on two Pakistani military posts near the border with Afghanistan Saturday …
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ALEC in Arizona, Democracy in Peril
(Photo: Nick Surgey of Common Cause) What do you get for the corporation that has everything? More of the same—money, power, and influence. That’s the mission and …
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In Stammering Interview, Romney Refuses to Say Whether He Will Deport Undocumented Immigrants
At the last GOP presidential debate, Newt Gingrich asserted his support for an immigration plan that would accord an undocumented immigrant “red card” status — that is, give them …
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Buy American, Shop American
One thing you can do to help bring back American jobs is look for goods made in America when you shop. People are tired of going into stores and …
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Clinton Champions Gender Agenda at Busan
Busan, South Korea - Women toil in the fields for most of their lives producing food and strengthening the largely agricultural economy of African countries, but when their fathers, …