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John Sweeney is an accomplished journalist, born in 1958. His career spans various fields, including political, social, and business reporting. Sweeney is known for his in-depth investigative journalism and his focus on social issues.

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“Satellite technology is a wonderful thing. From space, we can stare down and look at perimeter fences, huts, mine entrances and even sites of mass graves.”

Satellite Gulag

Book:North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State

Source: North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State

“The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.”

Humans Used Church Communication Members Fundamentals Add Cease Acknowledge Family Members Disconnection

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“The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.”

Passion Infuriating

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“I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.”

Thinking Wanted Invincible

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“It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.”

Form Taxes Management Structure Assets Schemes Beneficial Money Laundering

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“Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with the immigrant rights community and our allies in Congress to devise a truly comprehensive model that places immigrant and workers' rights at the head of the line.”

“I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.”

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“Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared for, confident individuals will generate great ideas.”

People Needs Humans Ideas Individual Groups Security Creating Safety Belonging Collaboration Great Idea Human Needs Basic Human Needs

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“The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.”

Pay Workers Administration Preserves Legislation

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“There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.”

Values Growing Globalization Consensus

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“Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.”

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“We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.”

Democracy Progress Newspapers Agents Workplace Globalization Parades

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“As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.”

“When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.”

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“Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.”

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Born: 1958
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