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The Great Amazon Heist Takes the Piss Out of a Terrible Company
The Great Amazon Heist, a special premiering tonight on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, opens on the side of a road, outside of an Amazon fulfillment center in Los Angeles. Oobah Butler, host of...
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Ultrarich Tax Dodgers Are Criminals, Not the IRS Whistleblower Who Exposed Them
In June 2021, the investigative reporting outlet ProPublica began publishing “The Secret IRS Files,” a series of articles analyzing a leaked cache of the wealthiest Americans’ tax documents. The series...
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Auto Workers Halt Stellantis’s Biggest Moneymaker
Today 6,800 Auto Workers (UAW) struck the most profitable Stellantis plant in the world. At 10 a.m. workers streamed out of the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP), near Detroit, where they build...
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Community Ownership and Citizen Participation in the National Football...
For almost all my life, even since childhood more than six decades ago, I have been an avid football fan. I grew up with my Dad taking me to Philadelphia Eagles home games as far back as when they used...
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How Two-Tier Wage Systems Cheat and Divide Workers
A single mother, determined to provide the best for her family, poured her heart and soul into her job at the Cooper Tire plant in Texarkana, Arkansas. Yet, the United Steelworkers’s (USW) Kerry Halter...
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UAW Strikes Two Major Plants This Week Including “The Most Profitable Auto...
General Motors CEO Mary Barra started her day boasting to company investors how much car sales and revenues have recently climbed. Two hours later, the United Auto Workers (UAW) reminded her who made...
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Here’s What UAW Workers Won in a “Historic” TA After Striking at Ford
Forty days into their nationwide Stand-Up Strike, the United Auto Workers (UAW) yesterday reached a tentative agreement with the first of the Big Three automakers. On Wednesday night, UAW President...
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Reports Expose US Billionaires and Corporate Profiteers Enabling Israel’s War...
With more than 7,300 Palestinians killed so far in Israel’s three-week bombardment of Gaza, a series of reports this week have exposed how U.S. weapon-makers and billionaire donors are enabling what...
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Corporate Bullsh*t, And How to Fight It
It’s a fight that’s been going on for centuries—and it continues to this day. From the movement to abolish slavery to the campaign to end child labor, from the Progressive Era push for a fairer tax...
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UAW Wins Tentative Contract Deal With Final Big Three Holdout General Motors
The tentative agreement reportedly includes a general wage increase of 25% over four years and cost-of-living adjustments. The United Auto Workers on Monday secured a tentative agreement with General...
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When Economists Shut Off Your Water
In August 2020, people all over the development world started talking about water in Nairobi. There was a lot of anger, and some calls for sending people to the guillotine. The reason: the publication...
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Public Power is on the Ballot in Maine. Will Voters Take a Leap of Faith?
At the end of October 2017, a severe windstorm swept through the state of Maine, felling trees, knocking down power lines, and wiping out electricity for nearly half a million people. Larissa Smith, a...
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Everybody Wants Gaza’s Gas
While its citizens take to the streets demanding a ceasefire, the silence of Europe’s leaders is deafening. Allyship runs deep, apparently, although their weak calls for “humanitarian pauses” are...
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Is a ‘Mayday!’ Now Looming for Our Billionaire Class?
The folks at the U.S. Coast Guard know “mayday” as well as anyone. Every year they handle thousands of “mayday” distress calls. Their counterparts worldwide handle thousands more. Overall, the number...
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Meet the Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protesters
Earlier this year, news footage began making the rounds on social media of young activists from the German climate organization Letzte Generation (Last Generation) being assaulted as they obstructed...
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Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal
“More and more, we see that you can’t conduct a war without war crimes. And that raises a whole other issue about whether war is any longer, or ever was, an acceptable behavior. We felt that leaving...
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How Consumer Drug Advertising Turned the Public into Pill Poppers
One night in 1997, as Americans were parked on the couch in front of an episode of Touched by an Angel, they were touched by something else unexpected: an ad for a prescription allergy pill called...
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Yes, We Actually Can Do Something About CEO Pay
Americans across the political spectrum are rightly fed up with up with overpaid CEOs. But many also feel there’s nothing we can do about this problem. That’s where they’re wrong. People can use their...
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Seeing Through the Economic Bait and Switch
Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, recently issued a scathing statement about the shameful state of the United States economy. On October...
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The Huge Paradox at Biden’s Summit of Latin American Leaders
resident Joe Biden recently convened Latin American leaders in Washington for the inaugural summit of the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity, a forum the administration claims will help boost...
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