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Corporate State
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It's Official: Living Standards Have Dropped In Britain. So Who Will Voters Elect?
According to a recent Trades Union Congress report, the Tory-led government not only failed to deliver promises to raise living standards – but is instead directly to blame for the decline of those living standards.
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Outing the 1% That Bankroll British Politics
Britain’s multiple crises can be traced to big political donations and corporate ties to the U.K. government. On the eve of the country’s General Election, Occupy.com examines how the 1% have gained from investing in politics.
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On Eve of U.K. Elections, A Housing Crisis With No End In Sight
The coalition government has radically slashed spending on social housing.
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The World Has Reached Peak Plutocracy
A few years ago there was considerable debate about “peak oil," but now we may be reaching a more dangerous point: peak plutocracy, where society and the environment can sustain no more concentration of power and resources.
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2,000 Organizations Are Opposing Fast Track Authority for TPP
An unprecedentedly united movement escalated their campaign to defeat Fast Track trade authority with a joint letter urging Congress to oppose it.
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How U.S. Cities Are Fighting Back Against the TPP and Fast Track
While lawmakers are pushing full steam ahead, city officials are making their own concerns about the legislation crystal clear.
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Following Student Debt Revolt, For-Profit Corinthian Colleges Closes the Doors
It was “not a school chain but a fraud factory, propped up by the Department of Education and taxpayer money for far too long,” wrote a group of Corinthian students waging a debt strike and refusing to pay their loans.
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Why Are City and State Worker Pensions Paying Billions In Fees To Wall Street?
Public officials are overseeing this massive payout to Wall Street at the very moment many of those same officials are demanding big cuts to retirees’ promised pension benefits.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic
A blatantly unconstitutional trade deal, the TPP would destroy our republican form of government under the rule of law by elevating the rights of investors – also called the rights of “capital” – above the rights of citizens.
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Deutsche Bank Hit By Record $2.5 Billion Libor-Rigging Fine
The penalties on Germany’s largest bank also involve a guilty plea to the Department of Justice.
