Chicken Production and Workplace Dangers

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I strongly recommend Michele Simon's article on how Tyson Foods and the USDA have pushed forward drastic increases in chicken production line speeds that would increase the profits of meat companies at the cots of workers' lives: But let’s back up a bit. As Mother Jones...

Down with ICBMs!

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Some nukey thoughts at War is Boring: America’s nuclear weapons are getting old. More to the point, the submarines, rockets and planes that deliver the nukes are rusting away. Designed during the Cold War, all three legs of the sea-, air-, and land-based nuclear “triad” need...

Put the Wage Thieves in Prison

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Catherine Rampell is speaking smartly in her angry column on the systematic wage theft that goes on in fast food and other low wage industries: Take Ashley Cathey, 25, a six-year McDonald’s employee who participated in a national one-day strike last December. A couple of months...

Rent

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Now that the plutocrats are creating a new bubble based upon exploiting renters, the price to rent has exploded, with renters spending 19% more of their income to put a.

Carter and Keystone

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Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, and other Nobel Peace Prize winners are right about Keystone. Former president Jimmy Carter has joined a group of Nobel laureates who oppose construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, warning President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry, “You stand on...

Shoe Strike

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Chinese workers making shoes for American manufacturers are on strike: More than 30,000 staff at the Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) factory in Dongguan city have been striking for several days.

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