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Economic Update: Capitalism’s Costs
Updates on Disney's price hikes, Portugal's unions' general strike, Chinese buy US biggest pork processor, low-wage retail workers fighting in Seattle, General Petraeus goes corporate, and income/wealth inequality in …
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Consumer Groups, Shareholders Call for Google to Leave US Chamber of Commerce, Disclose Political Spending
Outside spending in elections quadrupled between 2010 and 2012 after the Citizens United ruling cleared the way for corporations to privately donate unlimited sums to political candidates.
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Violence: Floods, Drones and Cops
There is almost too much to write about from Berlin! To start off, the uncanny disappearance of 1.5 million residents of Germany, missing since the last census over 20 …
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Violence and the Quest For Identity
David “Deacon” Jones died today. Unless you followed football in the 1970s, you probably never heard of him. I vaguely remember him and his Los Angeles Rams teammates Rosey …
It’s Time to Hit the Reset Button on the Fiscal Debate
Its seems we are stuck in 2010 as economic policy makers have not made the effort to change with the times.
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Industrial Disasters and Student Activism — An Overlooked Story
Student activists across the country are working to bring attention to sweatshop fires across seas.
FBI and NSA Spying Revealed: Uncle Sam Is Watching You, and Both Congress and the Courts Are Complicit
New report details how the NSA is spying on citizens. Here is what you can do to stop it.
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The End of the Right of Privacy?
As the government continues to monitor citizens, can we even remember the day when our privacy meant something in this country.
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There Is a War on Ordinary People, and Feminists Are Needed at the Front
With honourable exceptions, the bourgeois media club relegates and distracts from the fact that a full-blooded class war is under way.
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Economy Adds 175,000 Jobs in May, Unemployment at 7.6 Percent
Weak productivity growth has supported the job growth of the last two years.