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2013 End Report: The Super Rich Are Sucking Wealth From the Rest of Us
The wealthiest people in the U.S. and around the world have used the stock market and the deregulated financial system to lay claim to the resources that should belong to all of us.
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Could Crowd-Sourced Organic Seed Banks Save Our Agricultural Future?
Navdanya has become a network of seed keepers spread across 17 Indian states, providing crucial sanctuaries of biodiversity.
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100 Years Is Enough: It's Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, warranting a review of its performance. Has it achieved the purposes for which it was designed?
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100 Years of the Federal Reserve
“The United States Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it will start drawing down (i.e. “tapering”) its multibillion-dollar quantitative easing policies in 2014. The Fed will begin tapering its $85 billion monthly purchases of Treasuries and Treasury mortgage-backed securities by $5 billion each starting in January.”
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Exposing ALEC: When Will U.S. Media Shine a Light on the Dark Lobby Empire?
Since 2011, the arch-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has lost more than 60 corporate members and nearly 400 state legislative members. But even this apparently isn't news enough to expose the shadow group.
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How the Federal Reserve and Bank of England Are Fueling Massive Global Inequality
That the U.S. and U.K.'s central banks are encouraging food speculation — and are thus responsible for its disastrous results — shows clearly how both countries' monetary policies are engineered to work against the interests of the majority.
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Brazil's Terminator Seed Bill Threatens to Upend Global Agriculture Safety
In a move that could threaten the 13-year global moratorium on terminator seeds, Brazilian lawmakers are now attempting to push through legislation that defies a UN agreement dating back to the 2000 Convention on Biological Diversity.
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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty, Financial Crisis Kingpins
"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that," wrote Lawrence Summers while serving as Chief Economist at the World Bank. He is now in the G30.
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Why Boulder Voted to Abandon Xcel Energy In Favor of City-Owned Power Utility
Moving utilities from corporate to public control puts energy, dollars and decisions into the hands of local communities. More than 1,000 municipal utilities already function in the U.S. serving 50 million customers, a population greater than Spain's.
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Illuminate the Fed on Its Centennial – Because One Century Is Enough
The Federal Reserve Act, signed into law 100 years ago on December 23, 1913, was written in private, “debated” when Congress was empty, and voted on after most had gone home for Christmas. When better to stage an economic coup on the nation?
