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  • Have you joined the Facebook revolution?

    Have you joined the Facebook revolution?

    March 6, 2009

    “I Facebook, therefore I am,” was a headline I read online recently. Almost everyone I know has a Facebook account and it seems people are more and more joining a growing cultural trend of cyber-social networking....

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  • COMMENTARY: International rules needed for money markets

    COMMENTARY: International rules needed for money markets

    March 6, 2009

    Akahata is the newspaper of the Communist Party of Japan With the 2nd G20 summit set for early April in London to deal with the financial turmoil, work on international rules has begun with a view...

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  • Pro-union workers fired in over one-fourth of union election campaigns

    Pro-union workers fired in over one-fourth of union election campaigns

    March 6, 2009

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than one-fourth of all union-representation elections in the 2000s have been marred by an illegal firing of a pro-union worker, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy...

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  • Goodbye “trickle-down” economics

    Goodbye “trickle-down” economics

    March 6, 2009 By Teresa Albano

    Fresh from winning passage of a $787 billion economic stimulus package, the Obama administration has outlined its $3.6 trillion budget for the coming year. Its priorities represent a sharp break with longstanding Republican “trickle down” economics,...

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  • Trickle down misery

    Trickle down misery

    March 6, 2009

    WASHINGTON, Mar 4 (IPS) - The world's poorest people had nothing to do with the financial gimmickry that has brought the global economy to its knees but they are paying a heavy price for it and...

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