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Category Archives: GREED
Hyatt Hotel Fries Union Protestors With Heat Lamps
By Jen Sabella HUFFINGTON POST On Thursday morning, hundreds of unionized hotel workers gathered outside of Chicago’s Park Hyatt. After nearly two years of negotiations, they demanded a new contract, protested working conditions and decried the company’s alleged plans to … Continue reading
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GOP Senator: Obama Will Cave On Debt
By Michael McAuliff HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Republicans are willing to push President Obama to the wall with their budget-slashing bill to raise the debt ceiling because they are convinced he will capitulate on his veto threat and sign it, … Continue reading
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Workers Producing Clothing for Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s and Hanes Have Allegedly Been Routinely Beaten, Underpaid and Forced To Work Excessive Hours
One manager repeatedly raped female Sri Lankan workers, prompting a strike late last year … By Janell Ross HUFFINGTON POST A month after a prominent human rights group accused major American brands of purchasing clothing from a factory in Jordan … Continue reading
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Who Suffers Under The Gang of Six Deficit Reduction Scheme: Seniors, Students, Working families
Social Security benefits would be reduced, and there are also cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Students and the disabled would lose some federal government support By George Zornick The Nation President Obama endorsed the Senate’s Gang of Six deficit reduction … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS: Landowners Challenge TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline
TransCanada is suing and threatening American farmers and ranchers with eminent domain so it can build a pipeline that will serve no one but TransCanada and Big Oil By Tom Zeller Jr. HUFFINGTON POST Sue Kelso, born Sue White, is … Continue reading
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Mass psychosis in the US
By James Ridgeway ALJAZEERA How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs. Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 … Continue reading
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Letting Bankers Walk
By Paul Krugman New York Times Ever since the current economic crisis began, it has seemed that five words sum up the central principle of United States financial policy: go easy on the bankers. This principle was on display during … Continue reading
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ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition
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While Millions of Families Are Suffering, JPMorgan Chase Profit Jumps
JP Morgan Chase Profit Jumps Despite Continued Mortgage Woes By Shahien Nasiripour HUFFINGTON POST NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase, the second-largest U.S. bank by assets, reported a 13 percent jump in profits, to $5.4 billion, as lending continued to slide, … Continue reading
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NIKE Faces New Worker Abuse Claims In Indonesia
Our only choice is to stay and suffer, or speak out and be fired. HUFFINGTON POST SUKABUMI, Indonesia (AP) — Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them … Continue reading
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