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Hawaii’s GMO War Headed to Honolulu and Federal Court
The question facing Hawaiians: Do county governments have the power to regulate the pesticide-laden process of developing genetically engineered seeds?
Corners Cut in Outsourced Background Checks: A Case for the Public Sector
The charges highlight the problems that come with privatizing critical government functions.
Michael Pollan on the Food Movement’s Next Goal of Justice for Food Workers
Paying fast food workers a living wage would reflect the true cost of our food.
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Why Drug Prices Are Out of Control, or Money Well Spent by Big Pharma
Wonder why drug prices are skyrocketing? A primer on how lobbying works best to make people really rich.
Ownership of WaPo by CIA Contractor Puts US Journalism in Dangerous Terrain
Norman Solomon: There is a major conflict of interest in the ownership of The Washington Post by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who holds a $600 million contract with the …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Congress Chips Away at Social Safety Net, and More
Congress can't find the willpower to raise taxes on the rich, but that hasn't stopped them from chipping away at our retirement and slashing our social safety net, and …
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The Office of the Future
A view inside C&S Wholesale Grocers, America's secret corporate empire, home to the future of white-collar exploitation.
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BP Employees, Outraged by Lack of Compensation, Warn Oil Spill Victims
Long-term employees accuse oil giant BP of greed, exploitation and lying about their pensions.
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Economic Growth Is Killing Us
We require an economic and political governance structure that ensures all human beings have access to basic necessities while reducing human pressure on the biosphere.
Dollarocracy: Corporate Cash in Politics
The cost of American democracy is the most expensive in the world.