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President Barack Obama greets guests after speaking at an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on January 23, 2012. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / The …

Unions? Organized labor? The AFL-CIO? Those words were nowhere to be heard in President Obama's State of the Union address, despite labor's vital role in the economy …

(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: ax2groin, U.S. Army, iyoupapa) The LA Police Department, known for its brutality and corruption over the years, and the U.S. …

After resisting for months, Mitt Romney finally released one year of his tax returns this week. Here’s what we learned: Click …

It’s an election year, another presidential campaign is upon us, and since it is going to be so very much upon us every day from now until November, it …

After meeting again to decide Syria’s fate, the Arab League again decided to extend its “monitoring mission” in Syria. However, some Arab League nations under U.S. diplomatic control are …

Public sector declines in unionization offset by gains in the private sector After falling by almost 1.4 million workers between 2008 and 2010, union membership hit a …

(Image: University of Chicago Press) Rachel Havrelock is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and its historical interpretation. She is an associate professor of Jewish studies and …

Here are disturbing numbers from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, by Lester R. Brown, and its excerpt …

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