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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A New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers and Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping Cart
Want to see who's really selling you that box of sugar?
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Revealed: Atlantans Lost Nearly $1 Billion in Wealth Due to Foreclosures in 2012
Communities of color lost more than double the wealth of predominantly white communities in the Atlanta housing crisis in 2012.
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In AP Scandal, Mainstream Media Gets a Taste of Government Medicine
Corporate media just got nailed with a crackdown on whistleblowing, the kind activists have experienced in heavy doses. Lo and behold, mainstream journalists don't like what they're being told to swallow.
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Genetically Modified Justice: Why the Supreme Court Ruled for Monsanto
Farmers must pay Monsanto each time they plant the company’s genetically modified soybeans, the Supreme Court ruled this week, rejecting an Indiana farmer’s argument that his unorthodox techniques did not violate the company’s patent.
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How Big Oil and the GOP Subverted American Democracy
Morally twisted right-wing orthodoxy has taken the “conserve” out of conservatism, as GOP honchos' knee jerk slavishness to petroleum interests have infected America.
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Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution
In this Chapter Five excerpt from his new book, "What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next Revolution," Alperovitz talks about what's wrong with our political and economic systems and how we can transform them.
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Following Backlash, Tennessee Gov Vetoes Ag-Gag Bill
After thousands of Tennesseans protested the new law, Gov. Bill Haslam has vetoed his state’s “ag-gag” bill that would have criminalized undercover investigations at horse stables and factory farm facilities.
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Could Fracking Escalate the West’s Water Wars?
Nearly half of the country’s fracking wells are in water-stressed regions—in particular Texas and Colorado—where billions of gallons of water are spent, leading to potential conflicts among drillers, farmers and homeowners.
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The Wrong Men: How the DHS Failed to Prevent Terrorism
When they should have been investigating Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s extremist ties in 2011, Homeland Security and the Boston Police were busy collecting information on peaceful antiwar activists from Code PINK and Veterans for Peace.
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Tax Haven Exposé Pushes Countries to Launch Investigations
Drawing from a leaked trove of 2.5 million digital files, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists opened the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts and nearly 130,000 individuals in 170 countries.
