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A Serious Blow to the Rights of U.S. Workers
By ROBERT SCHWARTZ | An overlooked order by the Labor Board’s lead lawyer this summer dealt a serious blow to the rights of U.S. workers to protest government policies. On May Day 2006, hundreds
Read More »Britain: Forty percent of children live in poverty
By Peter Reydt | More than 40 percent of children in the United Kingdom are living in poverty, according to the latest research. That is some 5.5 million children. Whilst official measures of child
Read More »The death of the ‘dream’ of global free-market capitalism
IWCA | New Labour and the Tories are muttering that the left musn’t be allowed to exploit the current economic crisis in order to make a comeback. They have nothing to worry about: the systematic,
Read More »U.S. to fund pro-American publicity in Iraq
$300 million media program meant to ‘engage and inspire’ local population By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus | MSNBC.com The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over
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