By Peter Castagno on Feb 01, 2020 12:00 pm
 “Employees of these firms range from associates to CEO’s and from low dollar donors to bundlers, but their support of these candidates may hint that the labor policies they expect from a Biden (or Buttigieg) administration are more employer-friendly than what unions are expecting.” Lawyers from the nation’s most powerful union-busting law firms have united [...]
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By Guest Post on Feb 01, 2020 08:00 am
 “The United States is doing a 180 on the near-global consensus to ban the abhorrent and inhumane use of landmines.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The Trump administration announced Friday that it was officially rolling back restrictions on the U.S. military’s ability to use landmines. “In case you didn’t know, because they’re from one of [...]
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By Joseph Mangano on Feb 01, 2020 07:00 am
 When Bernie says “Not Me. Us,” people listen and take it to heart. That may not mean everything, but it matters a great deal.
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By Guest Post on Feb 01, 2020 05:00 am
 In the first of a three-part series, Agha Hussein investigates efforts by wealthy Gulf Arab countries to ply post-war Syria away from Iran by investing heavily in its post-war reconstruction. (By: Agha Hussain, Mintpress News) Since the dawn of the 2011 Syrian civil war, many aspects of the country’s political culture have been in flux. [...]
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By Guest Post on Jan 31, 2020 03:00 pm
 “DNC changing the rules to benefit a billionaire.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) After debate rules were changed in favor of allowing billionaire Mike Bloomberg to join the candidates onstage vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign hit back, calling the decision emblematic of the corrupt political system the [...]
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By Peter Castagno on Jan 31, 2020 01:00 pm
 “I work in one of the poorest counties in Michigan and my patients depend on expanded Medicaid, so how is that going to affect my patients? It’s been a godsend to the patients I serve. It’s their lifeline.” Health care advocates slammed the Trump Administration’s newly unveiled plan to channel federal Medicaid funding into block [...]
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By Peter Castagno on Jan 31, 2020 11:00 am
 “I’m done with fossil fuels … they’re just done. We’re starting to see divestment all over the world. You’re seeing divestiture by a lot of different funds. It’s going to be a parade. It’s going to be a parade that says, ’Look, these are tobacco and we’re not going to own them.” Mad Money host [...]
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By Ahmed AlKhalid on Jan 31, 2020 09:28 am
 Intense fighting initiated by the terrorist group of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its proxies continues in Idlib governorate. According to the General Command of the Syrian Armed Forces, the government army counterattacked militants concentrated around Ma’arrat al-Nu’man, Saraqib and west of Aleppo. In this regard, on January 25, the Syrian foreign minister sent a letter [...]
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By Will Bacha on Jan 31, 2020 07:00 am
 In the past decade, new technologies have transformed the way that people learn. The world of education changed in the past decade. New technologies transformed the way that people learn, standards for what is taught in the classroom were modified, sometimes drastically, and new ideas led to radical reform in both public and private schools, [...]
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By Peter Castagno on Jan 31, 2020 05:00 am
 “Something strange is happening, because they’re finishing off all the activists, the people who are doing something for society… With his death, not only my family lost a loved one; but the whole world, and the monarch butterfly and the forests lost, too.” Homero Gómez González, a prominent conservationist and one of central Mexico’s most [...]
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By Daniel Davis on Jan 30, 2020 03:00 pm
 Chipotle’s fine was the largest in state history and the latest in a series of industry labor abuses. Qdoba, a Chipotle competitor, and franchisees of Wendy’s, McDonald’s, and Burger King have all been hit with penalties for similar reasons. Chipotle Mexican Grill, credited with popularizing fast-casual dining, has run afoul of legal trouble once more. [...]
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By Peter Castagno on Jan 30, 2020 01:00 pm
 “This was not a run-of-the-mill financial crime. A prosecutor was butchered here. Malaysia was subjected to a corrupt prime minister for five years. It wouldn’t have happened but for Goldman Sachs money.” Goldman Sachs’ alleged involvement in a multi-billion dollar conspiracy to launder money from Malaysia’s state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) presents an [...]
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