NYT Notices Jon Stewart is God - Well, the New York Times has noticed that Jon Stewart has been the only consistent funny dissident force on TV...
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Myth of Saving Private Lynch - From a Murdoch paper-- read this story on the unheroic and almost murderous story of the "rescue" of Private Lynch....
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Murder of a Culture - The looting and destruction of the National Museum was bad enough, but now it turns out that thousands of Qurans,...
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Manufacturing Collapse - The economy continues to sink. Industrial production seems to be in free fall as the Federal Reserve reported that industrial...
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April 15, 2003
Raise Taxes on Wealthy - Well, one more item on New York's budget-- a poll showing that state voters overwhelmingly support new taxes on the...
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Budgets of Mass Destruction - A bomb went off in New York City today and the casualties will be children and families throughout the city....
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April 14, 2003
Democratic Left Against Cuban Repression - Below is a statement circulating among democratic left/socialist folks, largely by members of Democratic Socialists of America, condemning the recent...
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Privatization of the Military - In a proposal for "reorganization" Rumsfeld is seeking to move 300,000 military jobs into the civilian sector and no doubt...
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April 11, 2003
The Unbearable Cheapness of Bush - Ignoring ten years of sanctions and the devastation of years of oppression, the US government is already looking to back...
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Enviro Killers of Mass Destruction - Here's another mass murderer-- five million childhood deaths a year on its belt: The World Health Organization (WHO) -- reporting...
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April 04, 2003
Pandemics of Mass Destruction - Here we have a war about the possibility, the possibility, of weapons of mass destruction such as biological weapons. Yet...
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So Much for Judicial Tradition - Republicans have made much of the "unprecedented" filibuster of Estrada (not so unprecedented as they argue of course). But now...
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Crackup in Military Establishment on Iraq - This is extraordinary. The dissent by field commanders against Rumsfeld recklessly rushing them to war without readily available backup troops...
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April 01, 2003
Levity in a time of War - And many more here. Update: Well maybe not- the site may have been hit with so much traffic that...
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Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in...
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The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus...
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November 08, 2006
A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no...
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November 01, 2006
Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power....
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- Valuing Families: State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look...
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October 09, 2006
Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be...
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October 03, 2006
Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6...
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