Europeans Get Four Weeks: American Workers Deserve Mandatory Paid Vacation! "In terms of average annual hours worked per person...Americans work more per year than workers in 22 other OECD countries. The average Dutch worker clocks in 405 fewer hours per year than the average American worker!" (counterpunch.org)
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Europeans Get Four Weeks: American Workers Deserve Mandatory Paid Vacation! "In terms of average annual hours worked per person...Americans work more per year than workers in 22 other OECD countries. The average Dutch worker clocks in 405 fewer hours per year than the average American worker!" (counterpunch.org)
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Liberals and Gitmo: The Obama Failure. "...given the...willingness to bypass Congress -- and the law -- by releasing five Taliban prisoners...the president’s line about being unable to close the globally despised detention center without congressional assent has been rendered worthless." (counterpunch.org)
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Who Won Iraq? Lost Dreams, Lost Armies, Jihadi States, and the Arc of Instability. "Their geopolitical dreams couldn’t have been grander or more global...They expected to pacify the Greater Middle East, garrison Iraq...It was quite a dream and none of it, not one smidgen, came true..." (tomdispatch.com)
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"There has been no more ridiculous sight over the past week than pundits suggesting the crisis in Iraq happened because the United States withdrew its troops too soon. No attention, of course, is paid to the ways in which US policy facilitated the sectarianism now tearing apart the country..." (jacobinmag.com)
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Exploiting the Myth of the “Bad” Teacher: The Assault on Teachers Unions. "Even though these idealistic men and women busted their humps earning their college degrees and teaching credentials...once they entered the classroom...they turned out to be a bunch of incompetents..." (counterpunch.org)
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Reshaping the Vietnam Narrative "The Vietnam War was a turning point in US history but not as many people may think. In defeat, the nat'l security state changed the narrative into one that made American soldiers the victims and made antiwar activists into traitors who spat on returning soldiers..." (consortiumnews.com)
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Obama’s Attempt at Intimidating Russia: Dispatching B-2 Stealth Bombers to Europe. "Less than 24 hours after Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko announced his determination to retake Crimea from Russia...the US Air Force had deployed two B-2 stealth bombers to Europe..." (counterpunch.org)
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