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Corporate State
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Health Insurers Watch Profits Soar As They Dump Small Business Customers
Record stock prices have rewarded investors but are leaving mom-and-pop firms in the cold.
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Meet the Extreme Super Rich – These 80 People Own More Than the World’s Poorest 3.6 Billion
The reason the wealth of the richest has doubled since 2009 is because “it’s not a recession, it’s a robbery.”
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As Incoming Syriza Leaders Get Down To Work, Europe's Finance Ministers Hold Their Breath
The party is expected to unveil its policy plans in Parliament this week, while meetings get underway between Greece's new regime and the finance chiefs of Britain, France and Italy.
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Flush It! Fast Track for Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Must Be Stopped – Here's How We're Doing It
There are lots of ways to plug into the movement opposing Fast Track legislation and the biggest, most damaging corporate trade agreement in history.
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Pressured By Monsanto, Europe Backtracks On GMOs As Food Fight Shifts
Under planned legislation, expected to be finalized in March, E.U. member states would not be able to block the planting of GMOs through use of domestic health or environmental regulations.
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Middle Class Shrinks Further as More Fall Out Instead of Climbing Up
The middle class that President Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last week as the foundation of the American economy has been shrinking for almost half a century.
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London’s Supremacy Grows As Britain’s North-South Economic Divide Widens
As London and the towns and cities in its vicinity flourish with new jobs, talent and money, life to the North is being choked.
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The Invisible Man: Jeffrey Sterling, CIA Whistleblower
The mass media have suddenly discovered Sterling — after his conviction Monday afternoon as a CIA whistleblower.
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Global Power Project: Bilderberg Group and the International Monetary Fund
The IMF – "It's Mostly Fiscal" – has been able to represent a globally united front for the interests of commercial banks, which have systematically seized control of local economies everywhere.
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Wages Won’t Rise – Because Corporations and the Finance Sector Are Calling the Shots
A majority of Americans have no savings to draw upon if they lose their job, and two-thirds of all workers are living paycheck to paycheck – which is why they won’t risk losing a job by asking for higher pay.
