It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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Washingtonians Fight for GMO Labeling
This November, voters in Washington State will get to decide whether or not people should have the right to know if theie food contains GMOs.
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Public Education At Peril With ALEC's Private Scholarship Tax Credits
Tuition scholarship tax credit laws being pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council will use state tax codes to subsidize private or parochial education, with grave consequences for public education spending.
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India's Right to Information Act is Exposing Nationwide Corruption
The RTI is India’s version of the Freedom of Information Act in the United States.
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Egypt’s Atheists Struggle for Full Citizenship Rights
Proposed amendments to Egypt’s constitution that extend rights to religious minorities have angered both Muslims and Christians.
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A Film About the Fed, Funded by the Mortgage Crisis
As millions of Americans invested in new homes in the mid 2000's, filmmaker Jim Bruce was already investing in the housing market's implosion.
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In Government Shutdown, "Nonessential" Federal Workers Are First To Go
On Tuesday, military recruiters, drug enforcement agents and National Weather Service meteorologists will be reporting for duty, while environmental engineers, food inspectors, labor statisticians and off-duty firefighters will not.
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The Path to the RealWorld™, If We Can Find It
There are two spaces: the Internet and the RealWorld™, and many perceive them as discrete, separate compartments.
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Labor Dispute Could Shut Down Las Vegas
50,000 unionized service industry workers at major hotel-casinos could go on strike over stalled contract negotiations, severely cutting back operations or shutting down some venues completely.
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The Hidden Victims of Austerity in Greece
The crowd-sourced documentary "Into the Fire" chronicles immigrants' lives in Greece during recent years of financial and political crisis in which they've faced attacks by neo-Nazis and suffered under corrupt state law.
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How Nordic Europe Is Guarding the Commons
Nordic Everyman Rights give people in most Scandinavian and Baltic countries guaranteed access to nature's bounty, demonstrating a strong model for reclaiming the commons.
