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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30, 2011 — Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW), North America’s largest industrial union with 1.2 million active and retired members, today issued the following statement in support...
They are worse, but Obama has done a terrible job overall, protecting and aiding the GOP in their plan to continue imperialism and overturn the New Deal.
With good reason, lots of people are really upset about what has happened to our country over the past decade: torture, war-mongering, corruption, willful mismanagement, election fraud, socialism for the rich, outsourcing of jobs...
Some Breaks in the Blackout of Wall Street Protests
I’ve heard from several activists that their efforts to talk to Senator Murray and her staff are having little success I’m a member of the Healthy WA Coalition, along with about 100 groups, and...
Last week, Bush was forced to cancel a fundraising appearance in Toronto, Canada at Tyndale University College and Seminary, an evangelical Christian school. Students and faculty members protested and petitioned to keep him away...
From Counterpunch, by Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. Economic policy failed for three reasons:Â (1) policymakers focused on enabling...
The bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting concludes that between $31 billion and $60 billion spent on projects in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 10 years has been lost to waste and fraud. A...
The corruption, the injustice, the criminality, the war-mongering, the torture, the mismanagement, the stupidity, the level of unemployment, the concentration of wealth, and the lack of accountability have reached a point where society seems...
