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U.S. and Korea implement free trade agreement

March 19, 2012 By Pedro Conceicao

A long-awaited and controversial trade pact between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea came into effect on March 15.

All hail the (German) chief

March 19, 2012 By Victor Grossman

It's hard to decide: which article on Germany's new president, East Germany's (the former German Democratic Republic's) pastor Joachim Gauck, was more misleading.

U.S. and Korea implement free trade agreement

March 16, 2012 By Pedro Conceicao

The United States and South Korea mark the beginning of their free trade pact; labor and farmers remain opposed to deal as too procorporate.

Labor raising an “army of 400,000” for the 2012 elections

March 16, 2012 By John Wojcik

"At stake is nothing less than our democracy itself. What the labor movement intends to do is magnitudes greater than anything we have ever done in an election before."

Heat ray weapon a threat to collective action?

March 16, 2012 By Blake Skylar

Though originally intended for the Afghanistan War, it could soon be headed to the U.S., under the guise of a "riot control device."