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Znet Article Johnson: Deficit Fixed. Now Fix The Job Gap, Wage Gap And Trade Gap

Znet Article, May, 20 2013 Dave Johnson
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It is time for Congress and the President to "pivot" to focusing on our real problems: the jobs gap, the wage gap and the trade gap

Commentary Lafer: Discipline and Punish: The New Unemployment 'Reform'

Commentary, May, 20 2013 Gordon Lafer
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Twenty years later, the arguments used to end welfare have been turned on the unemployed

Blog Post Levy: How North Sea oil workers organised

Blog Post, May, 19 2013 Gabriel Levy
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After the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, which killed 167 UK oil workers, there was a surge of union organisation on the North Sea. Neil Rothnie recalls this in an interview, published together with an archive of the rank-and-file workers' paper Bl...

Blog Post Gillis: Conglomerated

Blog Post, May, 19 2013 Jonathan Gillis
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There’s something inherently wrong and irreversibly damaging about a culture where potentially the same conglomerate corporation owns and manufactures the food you feed your dog, the tablets you take for a cold, your electronic toothbrush and the ...

Blog Post Banerjee: THE BANGLADESH TRAGEDY: What Have We Learned?

Blog Post, May, 19 2013 Partha Banerjee
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The recent building collapse and ongoing sweatshop fires in Bangladesh killing hundreds of poor garment workers are no different from the mass suicides of “Monsanto farmers” in India, oil pipeline fires killing poor children in Nigeria or i-Phone ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: International Crisis Group Against Venezuela

Znet Article, May, 19 2013 Mark Weisbrot
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There is a lot wrong with this report -- most of it reads like a statement from the Venezuelan political opposition, rather than a neutral third-party observer

Znet Article Bennis: Syria: The Threats, Costs, Claims And Lives

Znet Article, May, 19 2013 Phyllis Bennis
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We must take responsibility as people to raise the political costs of a new war in the Middle East so high, that it stays off the table for good

Znet Article Sulehria: Pakistan's Elections

Znet Article, May, 19 2013 Farooq Sulehria
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On May 11 as millions queued in sweltering heat to cast their vote, defying Taliban threats, Pakistan made history. For the first time, a governmental transition has been made possible through the ballot.

Znet Article Raina: Caesar can do no wrong

Znet Article, May, 19 2013 Badri Raina
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Modi is used to being Caesar for his customary good governance.

Video Goodale: Obama Worse Than Nixon? Pentagon Papers Attorney Decries AP Phone Probe, Julian Assange Persecution

Video, May, 19 2013 James Goodale
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"The First Amendment is really going to be damaged. If Obama goes forward and succeeds, he will have succeeded where Nixon failed"

Znet Article Burger: Hospitals Should be Care Providers Not Loan Sharks

Znet Article, May, 19 2013 Deborah Burger
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Hospitals ought to act as responsible providers of needed medical care, not loan sharks

Znet Article Smith: Lions And Tigers And Terrorists, Oh My!

Znet Article, May, 19 2013 Brandon Smith
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Under totalitarianism, all people become terrorists. It starts with the mistreatment of the worst of us, and it ends with the mistreatment of the best of us

Commentary Chamberlain: Chicago Teachers Kick Off Three-Day March Against Mass School Closings

Commentary, May, 19 2013 Jacob Chamberlain
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Chicago Teachers are taking a stand once again in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to close dozens of schools in low income Chicago communities

Znet Article Shaw: As Obama's National Economic Agenda Falters, Activists Must Mobilize in States

Znet Article, May, 19 2013 Randy Shaw
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Activists must mobilize for economic revitalization at the state level, and with many states starting the budget process, the time is now

Znet Article Queally: 'Summer Heat': Our Bodies vs Industry's Money, Says Climate Movement

Znet Article, May, 19 2013 Jon Queally
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As the approaching months bring warmer weather, the climate movement is planning a mass mobilization across North America this summer

Znet Article Salzillo: After 1,300 Die In Bangladesh Walmart Refuses To Sign Safer Factory Agreement

Znet Article, May, 19 2013 Leslie Salzillo
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Walmart has refused to sign an agreement with other retail chains that will improve safety and working conditions for factory workers overseas

Commentary Wolff: Economic Development and Rana Plaza

Commentary, May, 18 2013 Richard D. Wolff
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The official death toll from the April collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which housed clothing factories, has now passed 1,100

Znet Article Smith: Why Counterpunch Owes Women An Apology

Znet Article, May, 18 2013 Sharon Smith
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Angelina Jolie deserves better than derisive and sexist "humor" for making public a health decision that all women dread being faced with

Znet Article Schechter: The News That Isn’t: How We Are Fed False Stories Driven By Missing Information

Znet Article, May, 18 2013 Danny Schechter
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News programs are the new wrestling shows, a noisy battleground

Znet Article Denis: We’ve Definitely Arrived at the Inevitable

Znet Article, May, 18 2013 Roland Denis
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Actually, since 2006 the voting in Venezuela has always been quite close, only the figure of Chavez as a candidate broke with that pattern

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