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Sturgis: The Case For Raising The Minimum Wage
Feb 18, 2013
Of the jobs gained during the recovery, percentage that were in lower-wage occupations: 58
Xypolia: Greece's Big Smog
Feb 17, 2013
The cost of heating oil has become unaffordable for the overtaxed and underpaid Greeks -- resulting in the use of the cheaper alternative of solid fuels
Street: A Keystone Moment
Feb 16, 2013
It is relevant that Obama made no mention of Keystone in the address
Laforge: 35 Years for Embarrassing the Guards?
Feb 15, 2013
Intervenors face decades in prison for tying “crime scene” tape on H-bomb factory
Solomon: What Obama Said -- and What He Meant
Feb 14, 2013
Let’s decode the president’s smooth oratory in the realms of climate change, war and civil liberties
Rasmus: Tragedy Has Many Faces
Feb 13, 2013
The State of the Union address last night, February 12, was proof, once again, that everything changes but nothing changes with the two parties in Washington
Cooke: Obama’s Shakedown of Medicare
Feb 12, 2013
The Medicare cuts are part of a larger "reform" of health care in the United States, which ultimately serves to shift the cost of health care off the backs of corporations
Malik: Freire Or Friedman?
Feb 11, 2013
For whom and for what purpose(s) does education serve? What does education actually look like?
Forman: Super-Sized Pay in New Zealand
Feb 10, 2013
With more than 4,000 members at KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, Starbucks, Burger King, and Wendy’s, it has become one of the most successful fast food organizing efforts in the world
Ferner: A Second-Rate Power
Feb 09, 2013
For most of us in this country, coming in second would be highly welcome, a real improvement over the current state of affairs
Cooke: More Austerity Cuts Coming
Feb 08, 2013
The Great Recession has quietly devastated public services on a state-by-state basis, with Republican and Democratic governors taking turns leading the charge
Landau: The American Gun Disease
Feb 07, 2013
Second Amendment arguments about having regulated militias, which we don’t have, get used as pretexts for fear
Finamore: Why Egypt’s Revolution is So Different
Feb 06, 2013
Entering the third year of the revolt in Egypt, no amount of repression seems able to contain the swelling pressure exploding throughout the country
Solomon: Ready for More Blood
Feb 05, 2013
When Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, countless journalists in the United States extolled him for a masterful performance
Fletcher: The Choice
Feb 04, 2013
Fagen’s existence, and specifically his actions in defecting to the Philippine Army raised at the time, and continue to raise, important questions about conscience and patriotism
Vivas: Spain Is In The Hands Of Thieves
Feb 03, 2013
No doubt. We are in the hands of thieves
Rugh: Occupy Sandy’s Collective Recovery
Feb 02, 2013
Occupy and allies continue to perform day-to-day relief functions and have begun to institute long-term recovery projects in affected areas
Baroud: Opportunities and War in Mali
Feb 01, 2013
From Libya to Mali a typical story is forming, coupled with lucrative contracts and massive opportunities of all sorts
Rasmus: On the Road to Double Dip?
Jan 31, 2013
US GDP data released on January 30, 2013 for the fourth quarter 2012 showed a decline in GDP of -0.1% for the last three months of 2012
Feb 19, 2013
Obama's state of the union address was a pro-corporate agenda packaged with chocolate covered rhetoric for the masses; easy to swallow, but deadly poisonous