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Billionaires Unchained: The New Pay-As-You-Go Landscape of American “Democracy”
There is no limit to the amount of money billionaires can give to influence the political discussion in this country.
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Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
People sometimes have the power to make change happen — if and when they come together and act.
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Apple Avoided Paying Billions in Taxes
Apple effectively paid no taxes on its international profits to anyone. And they didn't break any laws while doing it.
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Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance In the U.K.
Apple isn't the only gigantic corporation avoiding taxes. Google, whose founding mantra was "don't be evil," is bending over backward to avoid paying up.
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Fracking: Coming Soon To Suburbia
The fracking industry has taken over the U.S., with more than 500,000 oil-producing wells located in rural and suburban land throughout the country in 2012.
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Hedges: Rise Up Or Die
We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species.
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How Billionaire David Koch Censors PBS
PBS is free to create content that educates, informs and inspires — so long as it does not offend the plutocrats who keep it alive.
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Saving Our Economy With Public Banking
Public banking could be the antidote to free us from our dependency on Wall Street and put monetary power in the people's hands.
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The Capone Moment: Could LIBOR Fracture the International Banking Cartel?
Regulators' complicity in the LIBOR rate-rigging scandal is a weak point for the global banking cartel—which, like Al Capone's network of gangsters, may finally be on the way out.
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Why Is Our Government Prosecuting Whistleblowers?
Government is supposed to be public and open to inspection by its citizens - and we the citizens have a constitutional right to privacy.
