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Insta-Loophole: In Florida, High-Cost Lender Skirts the Law
Despite a ban on high-interest car title loans, the nation’s largest title lender has opened 26 Instaloan stores in Florida, offering a refashioned version of the loans that effectively charge the same sky-high rates the law was designed to stop.
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Decision to Frack Britain's Parks Takes Industry Influence To New Extremes
Despite UK minsters asserting the alleged economic benefits of fracking, many in Britain question the government’s new plan that puts human health, safety and the country's natural beauty at stake.
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Rebel Generation: Millennials In the Era Of Distrust and Discontent
From 9/11 on, millennials saw firsthand the devastation wrought by the Bush administration’s dishonesty.
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My Party Has Lost Its Soul: Former Clinton Aide Laments Victory for Wall Street Democrats
We yearn for a new politics but worry that our democracy, like that Antarctic ice shelf, has reached its tipping point.
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A.L.E.C. Launches Ultra-Conservative Lobby Group to Corrupt Government At Local Level
Under the American City County Exchange, local and city councils will see more privatization, more public services sold off or cut, and decision-making increasingly in the hands of large corporations far away.
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Exclusive: Euro-Crisis Report Links Bailouts and Austerity To Fascism's Rise Across Europe
In "False Dilemmas," Christina Laskaridis explores the origins and impacts of the debt crisis – looking at who engineered the bank bailouts, how they were able to get away with it, and what Europe has been left with.
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The Coming Calamity, the Coming Resistance - Part II
We can further see that there is a war on the underclass in the form of police militarization, as the Pentagon actively prepares for civil unrest and a breakdown of society.
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World Cup Wages Scandal: Qatar Stadium Workers Earn Just 76 Cents an Hour
Despite the Gulf kingdom's $226 billion budget, pay slips show migrant workers building the al-Wakrah stadium in preparation for the 2022 World Cup work up to 30 days a month for as little as $8.30 a day.
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Koch Brothers’ Politics Reflect Their Father’s Rabid Anti-Communism
The FBI collected over 100 pages of documents on Fred Koch after he published a red scare manifesto that accused U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower himself of being a communist.
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How Corporations Are Creating a Life-Threatening Water Shortage
Nestlé is draining America's vital groundwater resources at a stunning rate – with 29 water bottling facilities across North America, it pocketed $4 billion in revenue from bottled water sales in 2012 alone.
