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Czars, Kings, and Presidents
ProPublica's columnist Jesse Eisinger describes the tendency to focus on Tim Geithner, while ignoring the role of the president.
Groups Warn TAFTA Threatens Important Safeguards
A wide range of consumer, family farm, environmental, Internet freedom, labor and other organizations held a press event outside the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement negotiating summit.
LIUNA’s Opposition to Willbros Board Executive Pay Proposal Helps Lead to a Rare Victory for Shareholders
Shareholders of the Willbros Group, a major energy infrastructure company, rejected the board's executive pay proposal at their annual meeting today, representing a rare victory for institutional shareholders seeking …
Economic Update: Fake Competition, Real Cooperation
Updates on evaluating privatization of public schools; engineers' class action against Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe; and how in the US, home ownership gives way to renting.
Pressure Mounts on Johns Hopkins To Pay A Living Wage
At the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, the wages of many of the workers, including 15-year veterans, qualify a family of four for food stamps.
Thomas Piketty: The Market and Private Property Should Be the Slaves of Democracy
Lynn Fries hosts an extended interview with Thomas Piketty about his widely acclaimed Capital in the 21st Century.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Net Neutrality Is Hanging by the Thinnest of Threads, and More
The FCC formally proposes new rules that could allow companies like Netflix to pay internet service providers like Comcast to have their content sent to customers at faster speeds, …
Walmart and Contractor Settle $21 Million Wage Theft Suit, Days After Obama Praises Penny-Pinching Retailer
Just days after President Obama praised Walmart's business practices in a speech at one of its California stores, more than 1,800 warehouse workers in the state have settled a …
Labor Rights Abuses Still Rampant Two Years into Colombia Free Trade Agreement
As the Colombia Free Trade Agreement reached its two-year anniversary today, labor and human rights organizations say the pactu2019s failure to curtail labor rights abuses in Colombia illustrates the …
Murder in the “Coal” Mines
On 13th of May 2014 Turkey faced with the biggest coal mine explosion in the countryu2019s history. It is reported that there are more than a thousand mine workers …