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Security Checks, Duty-Free Shops and … Beehives?
Beekeepers are using empty public land around Seattle-Tacoma Airport to breed and distribute healthier strains of honeybees.
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Pacific Ocean Floor Is a Huge Underwater Garbage Dump
A paper by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shows that trash is accumulating in the deep sea, particularly in Monterey Canyon, off the coast of California.
An Autogestión Alternative to Austerity: Occupy, Resist, Produce!
Austerity policies continue to deliver pain to populations the world over, but shifts toward democratic self-direction deliver much-needed hope.
GAO Finds US Companies Only Pay One-Third of Corporate Tax Rate
CEOs claim the US has the world's highest corporate tax rate, but they actually pay less than most workers
Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young: A New Economy for Present Times
Cooperatives in the United States have existed more or less under the radar.
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Deathtraps Have Got to Go: Chicago Day of Action
Labor activists attempted to deliver a message to the GAP that, in case they didn't know, the pressure is on.
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Does ALEC Want You to Work Even if You’re Sick?
Governor Rick Scott has signed a bill suppressing ‘living wage’ and paid sick-leave policies for Florida workers.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Walmart Is Getting Dumped, and More
In today's On the News segment: Dutch pension administrator PGGM announced yesterday that it would no longer invest any of its $180 billion dollars in the low-price retailer because …
Economic Update: Capitalism’s Social Costs
Updates on Obamacare's
Military Commission Pre-Trial Hearings for Alleged 9/11 “Plotters” Focus on Gitmo Conditions
Victims and families of victims of 9-11 attended last week's hearings.