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Corporate State
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Uranium Corporation Of India Is Killing Children – But Refuses To Admit It
Even as uranium mining devastates communities in the state of Jharkhand, India, in the grip of promised growth, is choosing to look away.
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Lessons In Stopping Tax Inversion and Free-Riding Corporations
Companies that invert get all the benefits of operating in the U.S. – including purchases financed by taxpayers, while not supporting the government whose services, laws and workforce enable their profits.
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Foundations, Donors, "Philanthropists" Are Increasing – Not Narrowing – the Wealth Gap
America's foundations and wealthiest donors give only a small proportion of their total donations to local and grassroots organizations – furthering the divide between elite institutions and everybody else.
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The Market Basket Revolt: New England's New Labor Uprising
Former CEO Artie T. offered good benefits and fair pay – which is why employees are striking and customers are boycotting the market chain across the northeast, demanding to get him back.
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Subsidy Madness: U.S. Taxpayers Still Spending $21 Billion to Fund Big Oil and Gas
At least two-thirds of fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate impacts – so let's end the massive subsidies that encourage their production.
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Federal Reserve Targets Asset Bubbles In Warning to Wall Street – But Is It Listening?
Recent statements by Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen – who said that certain markets, like biotech and social media, are overvalued – mark a potential revolution in how central banks worldwide could act.
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Thank You for Your Service: How One Company Sues Soldiers Worldwide
With stores near military bases across the country, the retailer USA Discounters offers easy credit to service members. But when those loans go bad, the company uses the local courts near its Virginia headquarters to file suits by the thousands.
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Parasite #1: The Shadow Banking System
Despite the 828-page Dodd-Frank Act, the derivatives pyramid has continued to explode to a value now estimated to be as high as $2 quadrillion.
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Detroit's Water Shutoffs – And a Rising Resistance Movement
A few days after thousands marched on downtown Detroit last weekend, the city suspended mass water shutoffs for 15 days – leaving more than 15,000 households already disconnected.
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The Coming Calamity, The Coming Resistance – Part I
From the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to the Trade In Services Agreement, massive trade deals are being advanced in coordination with a militarized police state.
