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Strike – first by port workers on US east coast since 1977 – threatens to shut down ports from Maine to Texas

Israel seems to forget that Nasrallah was a more effective version of the last Hezbollah leader it assassinated in 1992

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) filed suit against Tuson Foods claiming it is making “unsubstantiated environmental claims” about its products – known colloquially as greenwashing.

There will be apologists for the game who will no doubt say that one cannot “blame football” for Favre’s condition. They sound like the tobacco company executives disavowing any connection between smoking and lung cancer.

A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one.

Florida voters report law enforcement personnel visits that appear to be part of drive to block passage of Amendment 4

Lobbyists and lawmakers have coordinated to enact new laws that increase criminal penalties for peaceful protests

‘We’re the Black Survivors’ (1979), A Martyr’s Birthday (1889), Canada Takes a Big Step Toward Bilingualism (1969)

Tens of thousands of longshoremen at 14 ports along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico are poised to strike early Tuesday morning if their union and employers cannot reach an agreement by midnight, which could disrupt the economy and the election.

No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.