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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, …

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Toxic Technology
Apple and other big manufacturers must swap less-deadly chemicals for the cancerous ones poisoning their Chinese workers.

Lessons From James Boggs: Capitalist Automation in the 21st Century
The racist antagonisms in the UAW led James Boggs to revolutionary conclusions about the US capitalist system.

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The Tragedy of the Soma Mine Workers
At this point, the death toll in the Soma mining accident has already reached 245, with reports of another 100 workers remaining in the mine, yet unreached.

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Climate Change Deniers
Deniers of climate change can ignore it all they want, it doesn't change the facts.

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 …

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Fast-Food Protests Go Global
It is easy to understand why workers are protesting an industry that has become known for poverty wages and poor working conditions.

How Parasite Corporations Like Pfizer Are Chucking US Citizenship to Escape From Taxes
Relocating to a country with a lower tax rate is one way giant corporations like Pfizer disregard their fellow Americans.

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 …