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“Ban Weaponized Drones!”: Anti-Drone Movement Spreads in Europe
Participants in a demonstration against the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) in Stuttgart, Germany, announced a new European anti-drone initiative and presented a statement from civil rights advocates, peace …
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The Solid Nonpareil: Why No Mark Twain for Our Second Gilded Age?
We have today a second Gilded Age more magnificent than the first, but our contemporary brigade of satirists doesn't play with fire.
DC Workers Win $11.50 Minimum Wage Increase
About 90,000 workers will earn a higher minimum wage in DC, Montgomery and Prince George counties in Maryland.
Patrick Cockburn: US Turns Blind Eye as Saudis Fund Jihadists in Syrian Conflict
Patrick Cockburn: "It is clearly a proxy war. This might have started off as a popular uprising in Syria, but by now it has four or five different conflicts …
Are Nader-Like Reforms Still Possible?
Ralph Nader says the reforms of the 1960s and 70s are no longer possible as Congress is bought and sold by a small number of very rich people and …
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Onward to the Pole: The Saga of the Idiot Brit
In many ways, the race to the Pole was the Apollo Program of the early 20th Century.
The State Policy Network’s Cozy Relationship With Big Tobacco
The State Policy Network, a web of right-wing “think tanks” in every state across the country, has close ties with the tobacco industry.
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In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor
A slowly but steadily growing phenomenon in Jordan, urban agriculture has vast potential for reducing poverty and improving food security.
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The End of Childhood in the Era of the Emerging American Police State
We are living in the age of fear and paranoia, an age which threatens the very core concepts of childhood development, and even the basic facets of our democratic …
NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Worker
Twenty years since its passage, NAFTA has displaced workers on both sides of the US-Mexico border, depressed wages, weakened unions and set the terms of the neoliberal global economy.