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Union Decries Marines’ Sponsorship of Sport Marked by Sexism, Homophobia
In their battle to unionize 12,000 Station Casinos workers, UNITE HERE's Culinary Union Local 226 has found an unusual target: the United States Marine Corps. Local 226 is targeting …
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The Greatest Crimes Against Humanity Are Perpetrated by People Just Doing Their Jobs
The most dangerous forces in the industrialized world are people who are just doing their jobs - the little chores that make vast, complicated systems of exploitation and death …
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Consequences of Not Seeing the Chains That Oppress
Oh, what a strange and complex world we live in. The good guys and bad guys sometimes appear to say the same thing u2013 that they only want the …
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Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
One of the great works in the establishment of civil and human rights is being shredded before our eyes.
Why the Buenos Aires Bombing Is a False Indicator on Burgas
Immediately after the terror bombing of a busload of Israeli youth in Burgas, Bulgaria, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a u201csenior U.S. officialu201d expressed certainty about Iranu2019s …
Henry A. Giroux: Colorado Shooting Is About More Than Gun Culture
Violence saturates our culture both domestically and in our approach to foreign policy.
A Student Debt Strike Force Takes Off
Can young people re-imagine the burden of debt as a a productive tool, rather than a means to profit?
In Victory for Corporatized Education, Federal Court Strikes Down Regulation of For-Profit Colleges
The assumption behind the rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Education (DOE), headed by Arne Duncan, were that the
“Do Business Schools Incubate Criminals?“
Luigi Zingales, who teaches at the University of Chicagou2019s business school, had an op-ed in Bloomberg provocatively titled u201cDo Business Schools Incubate Criminals?u201d He argues that business schools are …
The Shots Heard Round the World: Argentina’s Radical Banking Reforms
At a time when most governments seem incapable of doing anything about unemployment, worsening economic inequality, and continuing financial instability, Argentina has adopted a set of striking new reforms …