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Time to Rebel! Five Ways We Can Break the Big Banks’ Death Grip on the Economy
Wall Streetu2019s incredible greed and arrogance may have finally handed us the tools and leverage we need.
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Why Afghanistan Can’t Wait
Real strength asserts itself - in small work, repeated a thousand fold, by people like the Afghan Peace Volunteers.
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A Critical Mass for Real Food
While the old logic of the slave plantation is still the logic of our industrial food system, there's a new way of thinking, and it's taking off.
Congress Discovers: For-Profit Colleges Put Profits First
In December of last year, ranking House Member Elijah Cummings initiated an investigation of executive pay at for-profit educational institutions.
The Root of Labor’s Crisis Lies in the Private Sector
The reelection of Governor Scott Walker merely confirmed what trade unionists should already understandu2014laboru2019s current strategies have little chance of success. In the post election soul-searching, labor analysts have …
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Obama Signs Law Giving Health Care to Lejeune Tainted Water Victims
President Barack Obama signed into law on Monday legislation to provide health care to thousands of sick Marine veterans and their families who were exposed to contaminated water at …
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Prime Minister’s Defection in the Dark Jolts Syrians
The defection of Syriau2019s prime minister, Riyad Farid Hijab, began like so many others: with coded conversations and furtive planning. He began discussing the idea of fleeing, an aide …
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The Toxic Effects of Agent Orange Persist 51 Years After the Vietnam War
Second and third generations of children, born to parents exposed during the war and in areas of heavy spraying hot spots, suffer unspeakable deformities that medical authorities attribute to …
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Eager to Unionize, Grad Workers Wait for National Labor Relations Board’s Thumbs Up
Students or workers? Looking to reverse an infamous 2004 ruling of the Bush-appointed National Labor Relations Board, the NLRB announced in June it will revisit collective bargaining rights for …
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Gunman Kills Six at a Sikh Temple Near Milwaukee
The priests had gathered in the lobby of the sprawling Sikh temple here in suburban Milwaukee, and lunch was being prepared as congregants were arriving for Sunday services. Instead …