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Views When the Rich Took Over Our Neighborhood The Chinese restaurant across the street from me – one of the last, reasonably priced joints in the neighborhood – closed last weekend. Their lease was up for renewal and the rent increased from $5,000 a month to $25,000. Such an enormous jump isn’t unusual here in the West Village, part of... Read more |
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Views TPP 'Worse Than I Thought' 'It is clear to me that the proposed agreement is not, nor has it ever been, the gold standard of trade agreements.' Read more |
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News 'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare 'President Obama has sold the American people a false bill of goods,' says Friends of the Earth Read more |
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News It's 2015 and We Still Have a Gender Pay Gap The pay disparity 'can't be explained away by choice of occupation or the experience lost due to time out to care for children' Read more |
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Views Busting Six Free-Market Fictions The following is drawn from the new book, World Hunger: 10 Myths , by Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins. Being "free" sounds great—like being free to eat or to have a job at a living wage; so surely a "free market" is the way to ensure these important human freedoms. Right? Unfortunately, what... Read more |
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News Full Text of TPP Released to Public... And It's Horrible 'We now have concrete evidence that the TransPacific Partnership threatens our families, our communities, and our environment.' Read more |
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Views Trudeau's Cabinet Has Diversity, But Conservative White Men Will Keep the Purse Strings The announcement of the most diverse and gender-equal cabinet in Canadian history is both wildly overdue and inspiring in and of itself. The fact that counterinsurgency warfare pioneer Andrew Leslie and the racist, civil-liberties-trampling Bill Blair were shut out is equally inspiring. Seeing that... Read more |
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Further Celebrating Sociopaths: When They Install Dick 'Vader' Cheney's Marble Bust In Our Nation's Capitol, Will It Include the Dripping Blood? [[{"fid":"90602","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_css_class[und]":"_none"},"type":"media","attributes":{"class":"media-element file-default _none"}}]] Cheney serenely... Read more |
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Further You Shall Have the Body: When Justice Is Gone, There's Always Force [[{"fid":"90562","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_css_class[und]":"_none"},"type":"media","attributes":{"class":"media-element file-default _none"}}]] Despite last week'... Read more |
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Views The Gathering Financial Storm Is Just One Effect of Corporate Power Unbound Governments are liberating global corporations from the rule of law and leaving them to rip the world apart Read more |