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The Veterans Affairs Scandal and Plans for Downsizing the Social Security Administration
Unfortunately the VA system is not the only part of the government where essential services may be threatened by cutbacks. The Social Security Administration has recently disclosed plans for …
Astroturf America
Radical cartoonist Sarah Rosenblatt illustrates astroturfing, or fake grassroots organizing, to demonstrate how corporations and politicians undermine social democracy.
Confronting Financialization on Steroids
Costas Lapavitsas says we must deeply reverse financialization and take on private ownership of banking and other critical sectors.
“How Immigration Became Illegal”: Aviva Chomsky on US Exploitation of Migrant Workers
We are joined by Aviva Chomsky, whose new book, “Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal” details how systemic prejudice against Mexicans and many other migrant workers has been woven into …
Fast Food Workers’ Movement: Union 2.0
With the support of America's second largest union SEIU, the fast food workers' $15 wage movement has grown, and this unorganized workforce of the past is shaping up to …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Are Blocking the Pentagon From Taking Action on Climate Change, and More
Republicans in the House of Representatives are not only denying climate science - they're actually blocking the Pentagon from taking any action on it, and more.
Meet the Organizer Who Pulled Off the “Gap Does More” Hoax
A small online organizing group threw punches at one of the United States' largest corporations in an effort to change the international labor practices of the Gap.
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Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack and Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill for Walmart
Is this a nasty bug in the Obama presidency, or a corrupt core feature?
Brazil’s World Cup 2014: Private Security “Made in the USA“
Security has become a market in itself, and only those who can pay have access to it.
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Landscape of Paranoia
The architecture of city today reflects the emphasis on exclusionary privatized space and the limiting of any genuine commons. It is a landscape of paranoia.