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Corporate State
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Majority of U.S. Public School Students are in Poverty
The explosion in the number of needy children in the nation’s public classrooms is a recent phenomenon.
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Deep Questions Arise Over Portland's Corporate Water Takeover
Portland residents are up in arms about what they believe is a cronyism-driven plan to kill the elegant, gravity-fed, open water reservoir system that has reliably served their city safe, clean drinking water for more than 100 years.
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Extremists On the Bench: Five Years After Citizens United, Our Rogue Supreme Court
Five "unelected, unaccountable kings in black robes" are systematically stripping Constitutional rights from real, live human beings and giving those rights to corporations and a very small group of plutocrats.
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How Wall Street Drove the Oil Drilling Boom – That's Now Imploding
The Street hyped junk bonds, instigated mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged loans or new shares that it pushed into the hands of investors, who were bamboozled into thinking all risk had been removed from the oil equation.
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The Grand Strategy To Cast Off the Corporate State
This is a strategic memorandum to all movement organizers, social justice organizations, and free citizens disgusted with a corporate state that has systematically extracted our wealth and resources while giving back nothing in return.
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Why A Conviction in the Silk Road Trial Could "Put A Chill On the Internet"
The government aims to prove that Ross Ulbricht is the man behind the online persona Dread Pirate Roberts, the administrator of the Silk Road online black marketplace.
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In Latest Pipeline Disaster, 50,000 Gallons Of Crude Oil Spills Into Yellowstone River
Some residents are reportedly smelling and tasting oil in their drinking water, causing the EPA to test water samples and the city water plant to cease drawing water from the river.
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World Economic Forum 2015: Global Governance In a World of Resistance
The annual conference features globalization’s "Mafiocracy" of bankers, industrialists, oligarchs, technocrats and politicians who promote common ideas and serve common interests: their own.
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The Road to Serfdom, Part VII
As economies veer out of balance and polarize, rentiers – who rely on other people's debt to sustain their own wealth – aim to deter economies from doing anything to prevent this widening imbalance.
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New Oxfam Report Shows Half Of Global Wealth Is Held By the 1%
Rising inequality is dangerous. A concentration of wealth capturing power is leaving ordinary people voiceless.
