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The GOP Plan for Medicare Is Not Nice
The House Republican plan for balancing budgets includes deep cuts in federal health care spending. It is honest but not nice. It's not nice at all. …
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The End of Shutdowns
Washington - One image perfectly captured the absurd, irrational and wholly unnecessary confrontation over whether to shut down the federal government on the basis of differences over a small …
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And if We Were to Change … Everything
(Photo: random cliché) Month after month, Alternatives Economiques describes and analyzes the economic news. That does not prevent us from reflecting on what could, on what must, …
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The Link Between War and Big Finance
Veterans For Peace has joined in endorsing “Sounds of Resistance,” a concert and protest against Wall Street banks that draws the connections between militarism, Wall Street, the wealth divide …
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Kaiser and SEIU Flouted the NLRB Rules: An Appeal to Overturn the Kaiser Election
Throughout the United States, pro-labor activists are beginning to realize that the right to collective bargaining — currently under assault — is intertwined with the right of employees to …
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The Clean Energy Revolution Won’t be About Clean Energy
The uprisings in the Middle East and the growing austerity-induced unrest among workers in the US and Europe have provided new hope for environmental movement leaders who for years …
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The Value of an Educated Mind in a High-Tech World
(Photo: Morningstar Lee) And now for something completely different. About 15 years ago, before I became a regular columnist, The New York Times asked me and other …
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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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Republican Shutdown Shuts Down the Economy – So Do the Cuts They Demand
Progressive Caucus co-chairman Rep. Keith Ellison, (D-Minnesota), and other members of the Progressive Caucus react to Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal.