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Strong Job Creation

By Isaac Cohen* The creation of 288,000 new jobs in June, announced by the Labor Department last week, was the best performance in the US labor market since 2008. The unemployment rate declined from 6.3 to 6.1 percent and the stock market for the first time broke the 17,000 point…
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It Was Not a Slip

By Isaac Cohen* Recently revised figures by the Commerce Department on US economic growth, during this year’s first quarter, revealed a steep contraction of almost 3 percent, instead of the initial estimate of a smaller decrease of 1 percent. Therefore, with the revision, what was initially perceived as a slip…
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Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold taken to trial in Geneva for violations of human rights in El Salvador

By P. Cabezas Members of the National Roundtable against Mining in El Salvador, La Mesa, announced the presentation of the Pacific Rim-OceanaGold case in this week’s Permanent Peoples' Tribunal held in Geneva, Switzerland. The tribunal, organized as part of the International Week of Actions to Stop Corporate Impunity, “provides an opportunity…
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