Economics
Right-wing Brazilian government moves to weaken anti-slavery laws
March 27, 2017Slavery still exists in Brazil and may get worse under the Temer government. Standing to benefit are the global capitalists who deal in natural resources.
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Colonialism bears bitter fruit in Puerto Rico
March 20, 2017The U.S. government board controlling Puerto Rican finances has approved a plan that extracts $800 million per year from the island in interest payments and orders pension reductions and layoffs.
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Trumpcare: The lies about healthcare are starting to hurt
March 14, 2017Trumpcare’s two biggest tax cuts will lard $144 billion into the pockets of those with incomes over $1 million or more over the next decade while denying millions of insurance.
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Trump plays friend to workers on trade while pursuing privatization
March 13, 2017U.S. unions face a dilemma: how to work with a president who’s avowedly anti-union and yet is pursuing some of their aims, like re-negotiating NAFTA?
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Chinese Communist leader defends globalization while U.S. talks isolationism
February 22, 2017In a bizarre twist, it falls to China's Communist leader Xi Jinping to defend globalization as Trump talks of closing borders and halting trade.
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