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The Panama Papers Could Lead to Capitalism’s Great Crisis
Leak shows what much of the world's 99% believes – it’s just the tip of a much bigger iceberg.
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Panama Papers Show How Institutional Corruption In UK Is Perpetuating Wealth Inequality
Great Britain is directly implicated in the scandal, with critics citing the hypocrisy of Tories’ hardline rhetoric on tax avoidance while “soft-pedaling reform" of a global system that easily shields wealth from taxation.
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What Are the Panama Papers? A Guide to the Biggest Data Leak In History
Twelve national leaders are among 143 politicians, their families and close associates from around the world known to have been using offshore tax havens.
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Tax Time: How Corporations Are Cheating Schoolchildren
It’s a devious double whammy: taxpayers are giving money to multinational corporations and then paying a second time to meet the needs of underfunded U.S. public schools.
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Why the Mainstream Media Marginalize Bernie
They don’t know how to report on movements – and they haven’t noticed how determined Americans are to reverse the increasing concentration of wealth and political power that have been eroding our economy and democracy.
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The 1% Games: More Than 50,000 New Yorkers Pay Zero City Income Taxes
Perhaps you will be pleased to know that the number of New York City households reporting incomes of more than $1 million has climbed by 47 percent. Or maybe you do not see this as good news.
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Our Water, Our Future: Small Oregon Town Fights Back Against Another Nestle Water Grab
For years, local activists have been fighting to keep Nestlé, the world’s largest water bottler, from building a bottling facility on the magnificent Columbia River Gorge, essentially privatizing a public resource. Now you can help them in that battle.
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10 Huge Drug Rip-Offs – And Big Pharma's Campaign to Keep on Price-Gouging
When did you become aware of the obscene prices the pharmaceutical industry is charging for drugs?
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What Happens When Neither Political Party Answers to the Bottom 90%?
Both Democrats and Republicans face a crisis of leadership and ideology, as well as a great opportunity for reinvention – whichever party first reinvents itself successfully will begin winning elections the way the Democrats did in the 1932-1968 era.
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Citizen Trump: How an American Caudillo Came to Dominate the 2016 Presidential Race
The religions and ethnicities may have changed, but the core nativism that the former Celebrity Apprentice host promotes is much the same: a full-throated call for a simpler, more ignorant time that only ever existed in the imagination.
