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Corporate State
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New Path, Next System: Juliet Schor on Inequality and the Climate Crisis
We’ve got to find a new path that allows us to solve both climate and economic deprivation at the same time – and we can only do that with a whole different kind of system.
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Thomas Piketty to Angela Merkel: Austerity Has Failed
The never-ending austerity that Europe is force-feeding the Greek people is simply not working – now Greece has loudly said no more.
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Question to Lawmakers: Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Unconstitutional?
Obama and Congress need to explain how the Constitution allows the United States to submit the validity of its federal, state and local laws to "corporate tribunals" with no possibility of U.S. court review.
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Spinning Food: New Report Shows Industry Spends Billions Getting Us To Eat Unhealthy
Food industry front groups and covert communications teams sponsored are going to unprecedented lengths – and deploying an ever wider array of PR tactics – to make sure consumers keep buying unhealthy products.
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"We're In a Revolutionary Moment": Why Chris Hedges Believes the Uprising Is Coming Soon
"You rebel not only for what you can achieve, but for who you [can] become," says the author and journalist.
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Let's Talk About What Socialism Means – When the Employer and Employee Become One
Regulated private capitalism, state capitalism, socialism – these three systems are entirely different from each other, and we must understand those differences to move beyond today's dysfunctional economies.
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On Eve Of Historic Vote, I.M.F. Swings Toward Greece Calling for Debt Relief
The Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, said he would rather cut off his arm than accept another austerity bailout without any debt relief for the country.
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Conservatives Imperil U.K. Democracy In Quest to Kill Human Rights Act
The HRA protects the right to life, liberty, security, a fair trial, respect for private life and freedom of expression – it also bans torture, slavery and discrimination.
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CEO Pay At America's Largest Corporations Rose 54% Since Recovery Began
Chief executives at the country's 350 biggest companies made an average of $16.3 million each last year – but while their compensation soared, the typical worker’s paycheck hasn’t budged.
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How I Would Vote In the Greek Referendum
A yes vote would mean depression almost without end – by contrast, a no vote would at least open the possibility that Greece, with its strong democratic tradition, might grasp its destiny in its own hands.
