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Vorpahl: Workers Stand Up to Walmart
Oct 15, 2012
The conditions and wages that Walmart workers currently are subjected to have created a downward pressure for retail employees and the entire working class
Bloice: Another Plot Against Democracy
Oct 14, 2012
In California Prpp. 32 is masquerading as an attempt at electoral reform
Boeing: "No Nerds, No Birds"
Oct 13, 2012
A showdown is taking shape between Boeing and the aerospace giant's engineers and technical professionals
Bloch: Striking Walmart Workers Escalate
Oct 12, 2012
If a company as massive as Walmart is forced to change its labor practices, the ripples will be felt far and wide
Sturgis: The Anti-Scientists
Oct 11, 2012
Members of the House Science Committee that have expressed anti-scientific views
Bradbury: Walmart Strikers Win Full Back Pay
Oct 10, 2012
Strikers have returned to work with their heads held high and their wallets full at Walmart’s largest North American distribution center
Street: There’s No Economy on a Dead Planet
Oct 09, 2012
There’s something missing from the presidential campaign, including the first presidential debate last week – the fate of the Earth
Schechter: The Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Oct 08, 2012
The needs and concerns of the Palestinian people are not in the news much in the United States even though the issues have been around for decades
Bolger: Life in Waziristan, 2012 “AD”
Oct 07, 2012
Imagine having up to 6 drones circling overhead 24 hours a day, making an incessant, constant buzzing sound that never ceases
Rasmus: Controversial Jobs Numbers?
Oct 06, 2012
Evidence of something out of the ordinary is reflected in the inordinate jobs growth in fall-winter followed by jobs collapse in spring-early summer
Bacon: Killing of Unionists
Oct 05, 2012
34 trade unionists have been assassinated and 485 leaders have received death threats since the Labor Action Plan has been in effect in Colombia
Kagarlitsky: Lawmakers Fixated on Cats
Oct 04, 2012
Time is passing, but our legislatures are too busy complaining about noisy cats to deal with the very real problems that Russians are facing
Pilger: The Life And Death Of An Australian Hero
Oct 03, 2012
I first met Arthur Murray a generation ago and knew he was the best kind of trouble
Schechter: Is IranTelling Us Something?
Oct 02, 2012
There are clearly initiatives underway to build bridges, but so far, media outlets, eager to fan the flames of confrontation and polarization, have ignored them
Engler: Quebec's Protests Force Change
Oct 01, 2012
Beyond politicizing a generation, the protests have spurred a more socially and ecologically progressive political climate
Street: On Class Rule and Theater Politics
Sep 30, 2012
Romney is taking “out of touch” to a new level. He seems straight from central casting when it comes to helping Obama easily beat the Republicans
Butigan: A Resurgent Anti-Nuclear Movement
Sep 29, 2012
We are in the midst of the next phase of the movement for nuclear disarmament, where a series of campaigns across the U.S. are pumping life into the seven-decade struggle
Sturgis: Disenfranchising Latino Voters
Sep 28, 2012
Number of states that have enacted voting restrictions, which a new report from the Advancement Project finds will have a disproportionate effect on Latino voters: 23
Meister: Death In the Tobacco Fields
Sep 27, 2012
There are nearly 100,000 tobacco harvesters, some as young as 12, most of them Mexican immigrants
Oct 16, 2012
Shortly before Gillard's lauded rant against Abbott, her government forced through legislation that stripped A$100 from the poorest single parents - almost all of them women