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Why Are Drug Monopolies Running Amok? Meet Deborah Feinstein
After going back and forth through the revolving door, Feinstein heads the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, which has effectively abandoned all attempts to block Big Pharma mergers.
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Killing the Caterpillar: Competing Worldviews at the Chrysalis Stage of Humanity
Grounded in current climate science, The Collapse of Western Civilization, by authors Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, is written from a sci-fi vantage point of the 24th century.
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Purple Strategies: This Lobbying Team Works Both For the NRA and Against It
“You either want to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people or you want to put them in the hands of as many people as possible, whether they’re dangerous or not.”
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The Investments of the 158: Look Who's Buying American Democracy
For the country's biggest political donors, the success of their "investments" depends on whether their candidates get elected, lower their taxes further, expand loopholes and let them get even richer.
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Exposing BlackRock: Who's Afraid Of Laurence Fink and His Overpowering Institution?
Blackrock is the single largest investor on Earth, and has a CEO poised to take over the Treasury if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
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Fracking Expands Across Latin America Threatening World's Third Largest Aquifer
Contaminated water in some places it will be a disaster, like in the north of Mexico where there isn't any water and wasting it is illogical.
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Oligarchy Online: Why We’re Fighting the Net Neutrality Battle, Again
It's possible that the half dozen current court cases challenging net neutrality represent the most important free speech battle of the century.
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Billionaire Bonanza: America's Richest 20 Own More Than Half The People
A new report, "Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us," has produced startling revelations about the growing heights of inequality in the U.S.
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Exclusive: Greece's Former President of Parliament On Why Syriza Party Broke Its Pledge to the People
“They are trying to bury us – but they forget when you bury a seed it is only going to flourish,” says Zoe Konstantopoulou, the former President of Greek Parliament.
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Justice for Sale: How Rich Corporations Get Away with Murder
As we saw with the unequal punishments handed down to Peanut Corporation of America and General Motors, the wealthiest corporations – like individuals – can buy their way out of the rule of law.
