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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Reign of Idiots
The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine, Pahlavi and Soviet dynasties crumbled because the whims and obsessions of ruling idiots were law. Donald Trump is the face of our collective idiocy.
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Could Tory Election Fraud Bring Down the British Government?
The Crown Prosecution Service is considering charging 30 Conservatives with election fraud punishable by up to a year in jail, it announced two weeks ago — on the same day Prime Minister Theresa May called the June snap election.
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Part II: 34 Ways America’s Legal System Hurts the Poor
The German playwright Bertolt Brecht said many things about the law as it relates to capitalism. His most memorable quote: “The law was made for one thing alone," he wrote, "for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.”
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The Student Debt Crisis Is Exploding–Nothing Less Than a Student Debt Jubilee Will Do
Alan Collinge, the founder of Student Loan Justice, says current legislative efforts won't relieve current students of debt nor protect future students from acquiring debt – and he anticipates that the college debt crisis will explode within the next year.
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Fresh LIBOR Revelations: Is the British State Complicit in World’s Largest Systemic Fraud?
New revelations suggest that not only was the LIBOR rate rigging fraud a systemic practice by big banks – but Bank of England and the government in Westminster were also in on the big fix.
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Part I: 34 Ways America’s Legal System Hurts the Poor
The United States of America, the most economically unequal developed nation in the world, is a representative example of a legal system that directs wealth upward and the heavy hand of the law downward.
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Walking Back Brexit? U.K. in Shock as Snap Election Signals "Welcome Dose of Reality"
British Prime Minister Theresa May declared Tuesday that a “snap election” would be held June 8, three years ahead of schedule, shocking the nation and throwing the Brexit project into widespread question.
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A Bank Even a Socialist Could Love
The fight for public banking is gaining ground in cities and states across the country.
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6 Ways Trump and GOP Have Threatened Women’s Health in Just a Few Months
The new administration and the new Congress have been particularly cruel in their policies toward women — and it hasn’t even been 100 days.
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Wall Street’s House of Cards: Let’s Play Bankster Three Card Monte
Dear Main Street, how do I scam thee? Let me count the ways. Or should I say, “Together we’ll go far.” It’s as if the bank CEOs have regular committee meetings to discuss the protocol of the Three Card Monte trick.
