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It's the Inequality, Stupid: Achieving Doughnut Economics to Solve Climate Change
There is a safe and just, sweet spot between social and planetary boundaries – and we need to find our way into this doughnut, quickly, by tackling today's vast resource inequalities.
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Shady Profits: How the World’s Top Corporations Are Failing At Transparency
A new report reveals that three-quarters of the world's 124 biggest publicly traded companies don't disclose the taxes they pay in foreign countries, and dozens hide their foreign revenues altogether.
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The 2014 Election Never Asked What Happened to The Crimes Of Wall Street Bankers
Politicians, the products of heavy lobbying by corporations, speak from their respective party positions and the one thing they all to agree on is this: leave the banks and their dirty deeds untouched.
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Green Tuesday: Oregon and Alaska Legalize Growing and Selling Marijuana
The marijuana legalization train has left the station.
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Rising to the Top: 5 Stunning Facts About Our Vanishing Middle Class Wealth
With the 1% raking it in like never before, people in the U.S. and around the world are being rapidly divided into two classes: the well-to-do and the lower-income majority.
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Money Owns Politics As $3.6 Billion In Election Spending Shatters Records
The vast sums of cash raised by independent groups reordered the political landscape this fall as new levels of collaboration eroded barriers between those running for office and their big-money allies.
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How Sallie Mae and the Privatization of Student Loans Is Eroding America
Under the current federal student loan system, the Education Department is expected to reap more than $127 billion in profit from student borrowers over the next decade.
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Midterms Prediction: Billionaires to Retain Control of Government
This is satire. But sadly, it's also true.
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On Ballots Next Tuesday, How Many States and Counties Will Say No to GMO's?
Do we or do we not as Americans have the right to know what we are eating? Here are initiatives from Hawaii to Colorado and from Humboldt to Josephine Counties to take back our food supply.
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The Shackles Return: Why Debtors’ Prisons Are Making An American Comeback
In order to help fund their courts, judges may be threatening people with imprisonment for their debts – and more than a third of U.S. states now allow people with debts to be jailed.
