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Detroit Tax Foreclosure Is Crushing Families and Robbing County Funds
A massive tidal wave of tax foreclosures is building in Detroit, where nearly 100,000 residents face foreclosure and the resale of their homes this year.
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The Rich Own Our Democracy, New Evidence Suggests
The donor class opposes policies that favor the middle class and poor, and they have sway over our representatives.
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Weimar on the Aegean
In the Greek debt crisis, it is crucial that Europe’s leaders remember the history of the Weimar era that led to the rise of Nazi Germany.
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Questioning Transparency: As Oregon Swears In Its New Governor, Did Comcast Just Capitalize?
Oregon replaces outgoing Gov. John Kitzhaber with current democratic Secretary of State Kate Brown, whose shady ties to Comcast may put her as much in conflict with public interest as the ousted Kitzhaber.
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Greek Finance Minister: "If I Weren’t Scared, I’d Be Awfully Dangerous"
Is Yanis Varoufakis, the academic turned neophyte politician, entirely comfortable with his new star status?
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New Evidence that Half of America Is Broke
While jubilant headlines depict growing financial wealth, half of our nation, by all reasonable estimates of human need, is in poverty.
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Monitors to Phones to Meals: These 5 Corporations Are Quietly Making Billions Off Incarceration
Companies off the popular radar are benefiting from epidemic prison and jail building – some may even be even operating in your neighborhood.
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Leaked Files Reveal Global Bankster Scam. So Who's Getting Locked Up, and When?
After one of the largest leaks in the history of the banking industry, we know that HSBC bank helped hundreds of thousands of wealthy customers from across the globe avoid paying their taxes – now, what punishment will they face?
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Americans Are Enslaved By the Most Dependent Of Us All – the Wealthy
We have been programmed to believe that capital takes preeminence over humanity, that those with capital are entitled to be the arbiters of everyone’s success or failure – and that capital determines one's worth.
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New Illinois Governor Bans "Fair Share" Public Union Dues, Signaling Fresh Crackdown on Labor
Newly elected Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has banned public sector unions from collecting fees from non-member state employees – a move widely seen as the first stage in an assault on labor unions in the state.
