Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Why Is College in America So Expensive?
The outrageous price of a U.S. degree is unique in the world.
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$30 Trillion Has Gone to the Richest White Americans Since 2008
These fortunate takers profited mainly from the stock market, which has more than tripled in value since the end of 2008.
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Workers Unite! After Decades of Decline, Union Power Is Back
Widening income inequality is closely tied to today's rise of unionization in the United States.
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Science for Sale: The Other Problem With Corporate Money
Funny how people so obsessed with “fake news” so easily embrace fake science.
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"Treating Protest As Terrorism': U.S. Plans Crackdown on Keystone XL Activists
Documents suggest an aggressive response to possible protests against the oil pipeline amid fears of another Standing Rock.
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Becoming Serfs
We live in a new feudalism. We have been stripped of political power. Workers are trapped in menial jobs, forced into crippling debt and paid stagnant or declining wages. Where will this end?
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Crimes Were Committed—Before, during and after the crisis, Financial Felonies abounded
Here's Why No One Went to Jail After the 2008 Financial Crisis. To many people, this is the single most frustrating post-crisis question.
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Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk
"Central banks buying stocks are effectively nationalizing U.S. corporations just to maintain the illusion that their 'recovery' plan is working."
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Greece's Painful Decade: Out of the Bailout, But Not Out of the Woods
Poverty, privatizations, debt – in Greece, which just officially "ended" its bailout program, the silent majority can't let go their fear that this might just be the prelude to something worse yet to come.
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Can California Utilities Burn Down the State and Make the Public Pay For It?
Oil companies heat and dry up the planet, power companies start fires on the dried up land – and we pay the bills.
