Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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Now Is the Moment to Save Our Postal Commons
Because postal services, owned by the people, are part of the commons, the attack on public postal utilities amounts to an attack on the commons itself.
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Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership Document Reveals Failed Enforcement of Environmental Protections
The once seemingly invincible largest trade bill in history, covering 40% of the world’s economy, looks very much like it can be defeated. Let's put a stake in it.
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Chris Christie and the Koch in Cahoots? Time to Subpoena the Committee for Our Children's Future
In 2012, a Koch-backed, tax-exempt "social welfare organization" called Committee for Our Children's Future, CCF, ran a series of TV ads telling America that Governor Christie had performed more miracles in New Jersey than Jesus did with loaves and fish.
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Suppressing Science, Supporting Monsanto: An Academic Journal Retracts
Scientific journal publishing reached a low point in November, when the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology
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NLRB: Walmart Retaliated Against Striking Employees
Federal officials have filed a formal complaint charging that Walmart has violated the rights of protesting and striking workers.
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Why the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous
The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon – owned by Jeff Bezos, who is also the new owner of the Post – is under contract to keep them due to its new $600 million “cloud” computing deal with the CIA.
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Making the Case for Doubling the Corporate Income Tax
U.S. corporations need to pay for the many years of employee productivity and public research that built their trillion-dollar industries.
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Congress, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Why "Fast Track" Means Less Democracy
By granting so-called “fast-track authority” to the White House on the TPP, Congress opts itself out of the process at the critical stage.
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What U.S. Revolutionary Past Reveals About Richmond Battle For Eminent Domain
Mortgage relief schemes played an important role in our nation’s history as states passed laws to help debtors. Still, foreclosures became increasingly common, and a mini-revolution erupted when angry farmers organized themselves.
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How Europe's Social Movements Converged in Amsterdam to Plan 2014 #EUInCrisis
A strategy meeting in Amsterdam became a critical milestone for the convergence of different European social movements on the frontlines of resistance against the neoliberal E.U. austerity regime in 2014.