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Union Workers Replaced With Prison Labor Under Scott Walker’s Collective Bargaining Law
While Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) law dismantling collective bargaining rights has harmed teachers, nurses, and other civil servants, it’s helping a different group in Wisconsinites — inmates. Prisoners …
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Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security
(Image: Yale University Press) This essay is an excerpt from his new book, “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security,” published this month by …
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Murdoch to Close Tabloid as Fury Rises Over Hacking
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation, USA, captured during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2009. (Photo: Monika Flueckiger / World Economic Forum) …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Brzezinski Warns Wealth Gap May Lead to Uprising in US Streets, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
Populist Alliances or Senseless Wars and Corporate Welfare
Ralph Nader (left) and Ron Paul. (Photos: ragesoss, Gage Skidmore) Ron Paul and Ralph Nader have an intriguing idea. While both know that there are significant ideological …
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Washington Dysfunction: A Scorecard
Washington - Here's why getting to a deal on the debt ceiling is so complicated. President Obama's main goal is to get through this fight with the …
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New Guidance Allows Nations to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
A Whole Foods store in Edgewater, New Jersey, in July 2009. The initials GMO stand for genetically modified organism. Participants in the Non-GMO Project include major players in the …
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In Israel, a Tsunami Warning
A Palestinian demonstrator argues with an Israeli soldier, while other protesters run a bulldozer into a fence barrier close by, near the village of Bilin on the West Bank, …
The Invasion of Australia – Official, at Last
An Australian Aborigine with painted face. (Photo: Didrik Johnck) The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion.” …
Bachmann Lies About Her Family History to Sound More Iowan
Michelle Bachman speaking at a “Cut The Spending Now” rally at the Capitol in Washington, DC on April 6, 2011. (Photo: markn3tel) With the announcement of her …