Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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Obama's Secret “Free Trade” Deals Will Enrich Multinationals and Big Finance
Obama's two proposed mega-trade deals — the Trans-Pacific Partnership and US-European Union “Free Trade” Agreement — favor major corporations by weakening regulations and strengthening intellectual property laws.
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Big Pharma is Making Billions at the Expense of Our Health
Pharmaceutical giants are recycling old and discredited drugs while marketing diseases to sell the few new ones.
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Renewable Energy—a Jobs Producer—Wins Vote in North Carolina
The Tarheel State's economy lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2007 to 2012, but clean energy development led to a net gain in employment of 21,162 "job years"—a factor that helped legislators defeat ALEC and House Bill 298.
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Exposed: How Murdoch, Bill Gates and Big Corporations are Data Mining our Schools
The state is using its monopoly on education to benefit certain corporations—and students' personal information will be stored by News Corp.
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Greenpeace Launches Whistleblower Site for Oil Workers
The group launched The Arctic Truth to attract whistleblowers from oil companies to reveal risks associated with drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic.
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The Billionaire Blue Brothers Behind America's Predator Drones
Dispatch from an abandoned WWII-era airfield that is now possibly the largest private drone base in the United States.
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Nestle's CEO Says Water Is Not a Human Right
Raking in $35 billion in annual profits from water bottle sales alone is not enough for Nestle—its Chairman wants corporations to own every last drop of water on the planet.
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Bank Zombie Titles Are Soaring, Hurting Communities and Borrowers
The perverse phenomenon known as “zombie title" — where servicers initiate a foreclosure, evict the borrowers, but then fail to take title to the house — is an abuse that is skyrocketing.
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Nationwide Ag-Gag Laws: Stripping our First Amendment
Ag-gag bills nationwide threaten to quash free speech by banning journalists, whistleblowers, workers and other citizens from exposing illegal and abusive treatment of animals at factory feeding operations owned by huge corporations.
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Waking Up From the Forever “War on Terror”: Are We There Yet?
Without a clear and effective upsurge of grassroots opposition, Americans can expect to remain citizens of a war-driven country for the rest of their lives.