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Talks are not even taking place in the same city, since there are at least two sets of discussions ongoing.

Those losses are the result of highly sophisticated and intense anti-union campaigns by employers, business groups, and politicians. They are also the result of the unsophisticated, shallow organizing approach of the UAW.

Exploitation is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. Our economic system is beyond salvage.

Now they face foreclosure. Urban African American neighborhoods are hardest hit as nearly 100,000 loans have failed.

Those losses are the result of highly sophisticated and intense anti-union campaigns by employers, business groups, and politicians. They are also the result of the unsophisticated, shallow organizing approach of the UAW.

As Honduran teachers and doctors resist the neoliberal restructuring of health and education services, educator/organizer Bayron Rodríguez Pineda explains the roots of the national strike and the rise of popular power 10 years after the coup d’etat.

Wildly funny and clever, this is a play a serious theater-goer cannot miss. It's a terrific campy surreal take on murderous war from the point of view of the workers who have to clean up the mess, the bloody bodies of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is gone but Libya is now more dangerous than ever. Where are the NATO Alliance "liberators" that facilitated the demise of the Libyan dictator's regime and left the country to the fate of warring militias and tribal warlords? Libya desperately needs viable political institutions and a credible security apparatus but "none of the 'liberators' seem interested any more."

Hundreds of veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are worried about what’s being called the new Agent Orange: open air burn pits. Burn pits are open-air areas where the US military burned water bottles and plastic-foam cups, as well as human and medical waste. In a survey of some 2,000 veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, three-quarters reported being exposed to burn pits and half said they have "symptoms associated with that exposure."

The Environmental Protection Agency, the government agency charged with safeguarding the country's health from environmental pollutants, pursues criminal charges in “fewer than one-half of one percent” of total legal violations. And the U.S. Justice Department has an even worse record. Consequently, all corporate violators, even repeat offenders and those involved in the illegal release of large amounts of dangerous toxic chemicals, escape criminal prosecution.