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Chaos for Keystone: Dents, Holes, Bends and Damage Plague Pipeline's 485-Mile Southern Half
Public Citizen released a chilling report revealing that the Keystone's southern line, due to begin pumping 700,000 daily barrels of bitumen from Oklahoma to Texas within weeks, has more than 125 "anomalies" alone in the half of the line it analyzed.
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Elizabeth Warren Challenges Obama to Break up Too-Big-to-Fail Banks
Amid speculation that she might run against Hillary Clinton in 2016, firebrand senator attacks regulators for multiple failings.
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BREAKING: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Text Exposed
The Intellectual Property Rights Chapter published Wednesday by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents.
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Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable Little-Known Model
Established in 1949, Costa Rica's four public banks have remained open and in public hands in spite of enormous pressure by the IMF and the U.S. to privatize them.
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Newfoundland Bans Fracking, As First Nations-Led New Brunswick Protests Continue
Western Newfoundland’s shale-oil deposits have been described as potentially vast, but the region includes the Gros Morne National Park, which is a world heritage site and huge tourist attraction.
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"We Will Not Obey:" Building Global Resistance To the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The development nationwide of "TPP-Free Zones" sends a clear message to Obama and Congress that communities will not allow a secretly negotiated trade deal by transnational corporations to undermine the ability of local governments to legislate.
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Revealed: Everything That's Happened Since Supreme Court Gutted Voting Rights Act
Before the Supreme Court’s June 2013 decision, a state had to demonstrate that a new voting law wasn't discriminatory, and the Justice Department had to decide to implement it. Now it's voters who must file Voting Rights Act lawsuits claiming racial discrimination.
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The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage
Had minimum wage kept up with worker productivity it would be $22/hour today. For a workers movement to win a living minimum wage will require getting corporate-backed politicians unelected from office, and building strength at the workplace level.
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Report Shows How Corporate Lobbies Are Rewriting U.S. Labor Laws
According to the Economic Police Institute, some of America's largest corporate lobbies have engaged in an intense attack on labor standards and workplace protections, including laws on minimum wage, paid sick leave and even child labor protections.
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Why the Kalamazoo Oil Disaster Looms As a Warning Against Further Pipelines
Three years after a mega-oil spill left tar sands bitumen blanketing a swath of Michigan, the EPA estimates there are still about 180,000 (plus or minus 100,000) gallons of crude still lining the Kalamazoo River. Are we really ready for more pipelines?
