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Corporate State
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Here’s How Much Corporations Paid U.S. Senators To Fast-Track the TPP Bill
As Congress hotly debates the biggest trade deal in a generation, its backers have turned on the cash spigot in the hopes of getting it passed.
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The College Bureaucracy: How Education Forgot the Students and Became A Business
University bureaucracies are furthering the neo-liberalization of education, which is now viewed as a business.
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More Top Heavy Than Ever: The One Percent of the One Percent
One lesson of the 2014 election cycle: More money came from fewer people.
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Anti-Corruption Activists Join Occupy.com In Seattle June 4th - Calling for Citizen Empowerment
On June 4, two of the nation’s leading voices against political corruption, Lawrence Lessig and Marianne Williamson, will join Occupy.com's screening of "Killswitch" in a call for sweeping citizen action to root money out of politics in 2016.
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Slouching Toward Plutocracy, Politicians Choose Wealth and Ignore the Electorate
A new book examines why presidents tend to focus on the opinions of the wealthy and well-connected insiders when making their decisions – ignoring the views of most voters.
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Final Phase In the Battle To Stop Rigged Corporate Trade
The movement against rigged corporate trade is going to have to escalate its campaign if we are to hold the majority and stop Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Notorious Repeat Offender Behind Oil Spill "Nightmare" in California
New details have emerged about Plains All American's long history of generating similar disasters.
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Big Surprise: Global Income Inequality Continues To Rise
The U.S. ranks among the most unequal countries, surpassed only by Turkey, Mexico and Chile.
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Hundreds of Tech Companies Line Up to Oppose TPP Trade Agreement
Letter signed by more than 250 firms demands greater transparency and says "dangerously vague" language would criminalize whistleblowers.
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World's Biggest Banks Hit By $5.7 Billion Fine for Market Rigging
Five giant banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, were fined roughly $5.7 billion, and four of them pleaded guilty to U.S. criminal charges over manipulation of foreign exchange rates.
