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It Matters Which Women We Elect to Office
When the results came in from the recent primary elections, the media went haywire calling it “ladies night” and a “new year of the women,” primarily because several wealthy, …
Silicon Sweatshops: More Workers Fall Ill in China
Chemical poisoning is suspected in nine more cases in southern China. Beijing - Months after on-the-job chemical poisoning left dozens of workers at an electronics factory in China with …
At G20, Europeans Are Last Hope of Getting Climate Change on Global Agenda
The G8 and G20 Summits in Muskoka and Toronto could be a battle between a European contingent looking for solid commitments on climate change issues, and those hoping to …
G20 Protests Focus on Canada’s Mining and Tar Sand Industries
It is 3:30 EST in Toronto and the aggressive, anti-establishment sounds of hip hop groups Testament and Illogic are entertaining protesters gathered in front of the University Courthouse, the …
Weekly Mulch: As Risks for Oil and Gas Grow, USSF Offers Change
BP oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for more than two months, and while attention has focused there, deepwater oil drilling is just one of many …
Calling for Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, established by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1997, to mark the ratification of the UN Convention …
Chicago Youth Work to Decrease Violence in Schools
Chicago's international reputation for its violent youth population was sealed when, last fall, 16-year-old Southsider Derrion Albert was repeatedly struck with a board, punched, and kicked until death a …
Elena Kagan: Would She Turn Supreme Court Into We the People?
Washington - They are fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, opera lovers and salsa dancers, long-winded pedants and quick-witted conversationalists, cancer survivors and nonagenarian swimmers, West Coasters and East …
Mark Weisbrot | More Stimulus Needed to Reduce Unemployment
It is sad to see that the U.S. Congress is having trouble even passing just $24 billion for unemployment insurance at a time when the economy is weak and …
Isaiah J. Poole | Senate Obstructionists “Want This Economy to Fail“
“It is very clear that the Republicans in the Senate want this economy to fail,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., this afternoon in reaction to the latest efforts in …