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Capitalism
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Monsanto Spends Millions to Defeat Washington GMO Labeling Initiative
With a $4.6 million check to the campaing to defeat a GMO food labeling vote in Washington state this fall, Monsanto is banking on repeating its California victory.
Art as Resistance: New York Festival Crosses the Line
The Crossing the Line art festival features works from independent artists and thinkers challenging conventional social, economic and political norms.
Rev. James Lawson: Our Country is Based on Plantation Capitalism
Civil Rights veteran, Rev. James Lawson describes what he believes labor is up against:
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Is the Baby-Making Business Selling False Hopes?
Long over-due attention to the rarely reported enduring traumas, societal impacts, health risks and myths associated with infertility.
The New Global Capitalism and the War on Immigrants
The larger story behind immigration reform is the worldwide reorganization of the system for supplying labor to the global economy.
Ethical Fashion Is the Trend of the Future: An Interview With HELPSY Founder Rachel Kibbe
HELPSY's Rachel Kibbe hopes the fashion industry can start turning more toward ethical fashion.
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Resisting the Global State: A Perfectly Timed Perspective
An uncannily timely book that can well serve as manual for political education and guide to action.
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Don’t Shrink the US Postal Service; Expand It
The Postal Service has survived ideological attacks so far but could serve society still more with intelligent expansion.
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Henry A. Giroux | Intellectuals as Subjects and Objects of Violence
Henry Giroux: Public intellectuals must use their resources to question the authoritarian forces of war, violence and privatization threatening the planet.
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Work Is Undervalued in Society’s Obsession With “Stuff“
While the media is packed with material about consumer rights, there is seldom mention of workers' rights.