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Corporate State
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E.U. Rules Starbucks and Fiat Tax Deals Illegal – Companies Must Pay "Fair Share"
The bigger impact lies ahead for global corporations whose strategies to avoid tax are under attack on various fronts from cash-strapped governments.
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Pay Up Or Go To Jail: How A Mississippi Town Resurrected the Debtors' Prison
A poor single mother is seeking justice against the city of Biloxi after she was imprisoned for not paying $400 in court fees.
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Can Rent Control Make A Comeback In Priced-Out Northern California?
Richmond, infamous for its troubled oil refinery, becomes ground zero in the fight for affordable housing in the Bay Area.
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Exxon's Climate Lie: "No Corporation Has Ever Done Anything This Big Or Bad"
To understand the treachery – the sheer, profound, and I think unparalleled evil – of Exxon, one must remember the timing.
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One Bank To Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements, Part III
In the current age of austerity, the question remains: how much devastation will result from the influence wielded by the BIS and the decisions that it made?
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A Year in the World-Traveling Life of U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew
After reviewing Secretary Lew’s schedule of phone calls and meetings in 2014, it's easier to understand what it means to be one of the world’s most powerful financial diplomats.
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How Michigan’s Emergency Management Law Poisoned Flint’s Children
If Michiganders are looking for someone to blame for the travesty in Flint, they need look no further than governor and the emergency manager he appointed, who unilaterally made a decision that jeopardized thousands.
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Five Hypocrisies Shine A Light On American "Exceptionalism"
Super-patriots are more than willing to overlook their own faults as they place themselves above other people – the only question may be which of their self-serving hypocrisies is most outrageous and destructive.
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All In the Family: Here's Who's Buying The 2016 Presidential Election
Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House – with most wealth coming from the fossil fuel and financial service industries, and almost all of it going toward Republicans.
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Bankers Go On Trial In Libor Interest Rate-Rigging Scandal
Two bankers who worked for a Dutch bank in London are being charged in a Manhattan court with wire and banking fraud.
