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Is Obama’s TPP trade deal worse than NAFTA?

The campaign against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement is picking up steam. TPP FTA is aimed at a tariff-free pacific rim, backed up by an extreme intellectual property rights protection agenda.

After Arizona

The ruling sends a signal to the right wing and lawmakers in Arizona, Alabama and elsewhere that state laws, recently put on the books for racist and political reasons across this country, are unconstitutional.

Rio environmental summit disappoints — again

The weak-at-best conference statement merely reaffirmed the goals from 20 years ago for a sustainable world, without making any binding agreements which could make that actually happen.  

Today in labor and peoples history: Custer’s Last Stand

Sudan protesters call for replacement of Al Bashir regime

Protests are growing in the Sudan in response to the announcement that fuel subsidies will be discontinued.