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Offshored Production, Dysfunctional Diplomacy and Outsourced Policy: A Three-Part Analysis on America’s Trade Decline
(Photo: Zak Greant / Flickr) American Manufacturing Slowly Rotting Away: How Industries Die I wrote in a previous article about why America's manufacturing sector, …
Energy at What Cost? Protests Against Forced Eviction from US-Backed Coal Mine Continue in Bangladesh
(Photos: Shahriar Sunny) As the sun rose on March 28, 2011, roughly 2,000 people gathered to demonstrate against a mining project that would displace tens of thousands …
Back to the Streets This Weekend for Peace and Justice
The beloved peace and justice communities are rallying—again—this weekend! On April 9th in NYC and 10th in San Francisco, human rights, civil rights, and workers rights leaders …
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Slave-Like Labor Persists in the Coachella Valley
(Photo: Sheila Pinkel) On February 11, 2011, I joined a small number of professors and students of Pomona College for a day's field trip to Coachella Valley …
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Millions Without Power After Japan Aftershock
More than 900,000 households remained without electricity on Friday after the strongest aftershock to hit since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan rocked a wide section of …
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Investment Rights Stifle Democracy
This week, MEPs are due to vote on a report from the Parliament's international trade committee (INTA) about Europe's international investment policy – giving guidelines for the rights of …
Radiation, Japan and the Marshall Islands
A nuclear test is detonated on the Enewetak Atoll, a segment of the Marshall Islands, on November 15, 1952. (Photo: United States Department of Energy) When the …
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One Hundred Years After the Triangle Fire, Disregard for Worker Safety Still the Rule
Miners listen as Rocky Moore, a mine safety inspector, not pictured, talks with them about mine safety precautions at Teco Energy's E3-1 coal mine in Hazard, Kentucky, on April …
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What Does Clarence Thomas Have Against Black People?
Maybe John Thompson reminded Clarence Thomas of a childhood nemesis. Maybe Thompson, who spent 14 years on Louisiana's Death Row when prosecutors deliberately withheld evidence that would …
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News in Brief: Possible Reversal in Wisconsin Judge Race After Alleged Spreadsheet Mistake, and More
Possible Reversal in Wisconsin Judge Race After Alleged Spreadsheet Mistake