The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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Eight Ways To Reduce Global Inequality
By taxing progressively, respecting worker rights, and rethinking economics, we could make a great start at creating a more equal world.
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How the Government Outsourced Intelligence to Silicon Valley
Palantir – with its carefully honed image as a countercultural spy outfit committed to privacy in the pursuit of national security – is a monstrous government snoop, mining our most intimate data.
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After HSBC Scandal, Growing Calls for Tax Transparency To Combat Inequality
To combat the burgeoning wealth inequality that tax loopholes help create, Oxfam says it's essential that European legislators create greater transparency on tax matters.
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Richer Than Ever: The 2015 Forbes Billionaires List
The 29th annual guide to the globe’s richest found a record 1,826 billionaires with an aggregate net worth of $7.05 trillion – up from $6.4 trillion a year ago.
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Sen. Warren: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Clause Everyone Should Oppose
Agreeing to Investor-State Dispute Settlement in this enormous new treaty would tilt the playing field in the U.S. further in favor of big multinational corporations – worse, it would undermine U.S. sovereignty.
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Global Power Project: Jose Manuel Barroso, Austerity Politics and the European Future
As the European Commission president who helped define Europe's austerity-driven financial policies, Barroso advocated doing "whatever is necessary to make sure the euro thrives and to regain the trust of financial markets.”
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Swimming with the Sharks: How Goldman Sachs Indebted California's Schools
In 2008, after collecting millions of dollars in fees to help California sell its bonds, Goldman urged its bigger clients to place investment bets against those bonds – a scam ensnaring future generations in mountains of debt.
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Medical Injustice: Trans-Pacific Partnership Enriches Big Pharma at Cost Of People’s Health
Through "evergreening,” pharmaceutical companies could could retain ownership of and royalties to drugs for which their patents have expired – limiting access to generic forms of medicine that millions need.
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Why Trains Are Carrying — and Spilling — A Record Amount of Oil
More than 141 “unintentional releases” were reported from railroad tankers in 2014, an all-time high and a nearly six-fold increase over the average of 25 spills per year during the period from 1975 to 2012.
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HSBC Bank Scandal Widens As Collusion With U.K. Government and Media Is Exposed
The company directors should be called to account and sent to prison because HSBC has been involved in criminal activity at many levels.
