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The 1% Connection: Mexico and the United States, Crony Capitalism and the Exploitation of Labor Through NAFTA
Slim obtained (with some other backers) a monopoly on the telephone system in Mexico, guaranteed for years

Bread and Roses: The Battle Cry of the American Labor Movement
Bread and roses. It was the battle cry of the thousands of striking women and their supporters who marched through the streets of Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912, in the …

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Banksters Take Us to the Brink
Moyers and Winship: You wonder why the banksters still roam free, like gunslingers in a Wild West town without a sheriff.

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Minnesota Amish vs. Fracking
Does the industry's ongoing land grab clash with the fundamental tenets of the Amish population?

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Public Transportation System Is Failing Low-Income Workers, and More
In today's On the News segment: According to a new study by the Brookings Institute u2013 only a quarter of Americans can get to work in less than 90 …

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Obama’s Scramble for Africa Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the Pentagon’s “New Spice Route” in Africa
Few in the U.S. know about this superhighway, or about the dozens of training missions and joint military exercises being carried out in nations that most Americans couldnu2019t locate …

Unions Are in Peril
The Knox decision is just the latest attack in the ongoing battle against labor. And like the fight in Wisconsin and other states, it focuses on public sector unions …

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Workers Protest Con Ed Lockout: “They Couldn’t Raise Rates on Customers … So They Went After Us“
As negotiations between union reps and management to settle the Con Ed lockout continue far from the public's view, the workers are making their presence known in the street.

Election Countdown 2012: Occupy Atlanta Members Demand Georgia Enact Prison Reform, and More
About 40 demonstrators gathered outside the state Capitol in Atlanta on Monday to express support for Georgia prison inmates who have reportedly been on a hunger strike for nearly …

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Howard Zinn Would Not Have Been Surprised by Occupy
Mathew Rothschild: And like John Lennon, Howard Zinn wasnu2019t afraid to call himself a dreamer.