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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.
Has the United States’ Use of Finance as a Foreign Policy Tool Backfired?
The rapid rise of open corruption and the power of the United States' new oligarchs has laid waste to what little was left of this country's good name.
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Standing Up, One Year Later: President Obama’s Broken Foreign Policy Promises
The President's speech included a profound assertion that "from our use of drones to the detention of terrorist suspects, the decisions we are making will define the type of …
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 …
How the International Monetary Conference Helped Fuel the 1980s Debt Crisis
The 1980 IMC meeting seemed to bear formal fruition when Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency in January of 1981, as his new economic policies won "praise from at least …
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.
We Must End the Madness of Nuclear Weapons
The Republic of the Marshall Islands has courageously taken the nine nuclear weapons-wielding countries to the International Court of Justice.
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Oligarchy: As American as Poisoned Apple Pie
The current struggle between democracy and oligarchy in the United States traces its roots back to the 1787 Philadelphia Convention.
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How the War on Workers Is Changing
We need to put back into place laws and policies that balance the powers of employers and employees, and let workers unionize.
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, …