As Wealthiest 500 Amassed Another $1 Trillion in 2017, Calls for a "Strike Back" Against Oligarchy

"We can have a world where everyone has a decent home, the chance for an education, and access to healthcare. Or we can have billionaires. We can't have both."

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Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young

Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.

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Monsanto Giving Cash to Farmers Who Use Controversial Pesticide

Looks like Monsanto really wants farmers to use XtendiMax. The agribusiness giant is offering a cash incentive to farmers to apply a controversial pesticide linked to 3.1 million acres of crop damage in nearly two dozen heartland states.

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Private Prison Investors Set for Giant Windfall from Trump Tax Bill

Prison firms that restructured as real estate investment trusts see a substantial tax cut – more good news for those who benefit from increased incarceration.

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2018 World Inequality Report Shows An Economic Ship Blown Way Off Course

Should the U.S. continue to institute tax policies like the new GOP plan, the gap between the rich and the poor will keep widening until it reaches a breaking point.

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EPA Allowing Widespread Use of Unapproved Pesticides

The EPA has granted 78 "emergency" exceptions over the past six years for a well-known, bee-killing pesticide called sulfoxaflor, allowing its use on more than 17.5 million acres of U.S. farmland.

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U.K. Is on Course For the Longest Fall in Living Standards Since Records Began

Even after Britain's “worst decade for productivity growth since 1812 – when Napoleon was busy invading Russia,” the age of austerity is far from over – and the inequality gap in the world’s sixth richest country is only widening.

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E.P.A. Employees Spoke Out. Then Came Scrutiny of Their Email.

“This is a witch hunt against E.P.A. employees who are only trying to protect human health and the environment,” said Gary Morton, an E.P.A. employee in Philadelphia. “What they are doing is trying to intimidate and bully us into silence."

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Big Oil Can't Be Trusted to Define the Terms of A Carbon Tax Solution

Big Oil knows the game is up, but they still want to manage the process, slow down the green transformation and limit its impact on their profits. It's only slightly incredible to think that oil corporations may now be choosing to put Planet Earth first.

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Leaked Documents Expose How Corporations Use Spies to Subvert People's Movements Worldwide

Thanks to hundreds of pages of newly leaked documents, we're seeing the extent to which some of the world's most profitable businesses have hired private spies to keep tabs on political movements they perceive as a threat to their power and profits.

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