Talking Union
by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Jeff Crosby The AFL-CIO Convention in September took an important turn to reposition unions toward speaking for all working people in the United States. This was a correcti...
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The Abolition of Poverty in Switzerland: A Template for Europe?
For the past 18 months people all over Switzerland have been campaigning for the "Citizens' Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income". Today the result of their efforts will be handed to the ...
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So Maybe Jon Stewart Isn't The Biggest Obamacare Fan
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was grilled by Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" on Monday, where she appeared to address glitches that have ...
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Popular BitTorrent site isoHunt shutdown, forced to pay $110 million
After more than a decade of facilitating a search of BitTorrent files and eluding copyright enforcers, isoHunt has agreed to shut down all of its international operations and pay the entertainment ...
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Bernie Sanders: "Global warming is a far more serious problem than Al Qaeda"
Playboy Magazine is not my top news source by any stretch, but when they do something truly "juicy" like this interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), it suddenly becomes impossible to put down. ...
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Beyond Consumerism: Replacing the Value of "More" with "Enough"
The following essay is adapted from the book Enough Is Enough by Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill.] Given how deeply consumerism has become embedded in everyday life (despite the way it coaxes people to ...
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Edward Snowden: Surveillance of Whole Populations Threatens to be the Greatest
Editor's note: The following is a written statement by Edward Snowden delivered to the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs by Jesselyn Radack, National ...