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Government Recants Major Terror Claims Against High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah
Editor's note: This report was originally published on March 30, 2010. We have reposted it due to some technical issues with the original version. The Justice Department has …
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Campaign for Paid Sick Days in New York City Aims to Support Working Women
Concentrated in industries like care-giving and food service, and most likely to have to stay home if a child is ill, women risk the most when forced to take …
Saving the Post Office: Letter Carriers Consider Bringing Back Banking Services
The USPS has evidently been targeted by a plutocratic Congress bent on destroying the most powerful unions and privatizing all public services.
How Huge Food Corporations Will Make Upcoming Food Price Hikes Even Worse
The entire American food system is built on one crop — corn. And that is really bad news.
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Three Thousand San Francisco Janitors Prepare for a Strike
At issue in San Francisco is the same sticking point in most union contract negotiations - health care costs and wages.
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Why Afghanistan Can’t Wait
Real strength asserts itself - in small work, repeated a thousand fold, by people like the Afghan Peace Volunteers.
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A Critical Mass for Real Food
While the old logic of the slave plantation is still the logic of our industrial food system, there's a new way of thinking, and it's taking off.
Congress Discovers: For-Profit Colleges Put Profits First
In December of last year, ranking House Member Elijah Cummings initiated an investigation of executive pay at for-profit educational institutions.
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Obama Signs Law Giving Health Care to Lejeune Tainted Water Victims
President Barack Obama signed into law on Monday legislation to provide health care to thousands of sick Marine veterans and their families who were exposed to contaminated water at …