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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Journalists Lash Out Against Proposed Laws Restricting UK Press Freedom
Britain's media has been flooded with petitions, emotional speeches and general confusion about the government's proposed changes to Freedom of Information requests, which signal a chilling of press freedom.
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Not So Securus: Massive Hack Of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Is a Constitutional Violation
An enormous cache of phone records from Securus Technologies, a leading provider of phone services inside the nation's prisons and jails, may be the most massive breach of the attorney-client privilege in modern U.S. history.
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Lonely At the Top: Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes Of the "Isolated" Rich
As they stroll through Manhattan's Central Park, the 1% of the 1% unburden themselves about the guilt, secrecy and isolation they feel as the country's super rich.
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The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab In American History
A mass mobilization will begin the push to block the Trans-Pacific Partnership – a far better investment of our time and energy than engaging in the empty political theater that passes for a presidential campaign.
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Here's How to Fix Inequality
If there’s one thing Joseph Stiglitz wants to say about inequality, it’s that it has been a choice, not an unexpected, unfortunate economic outcome – which means that we, as citizens, have a chance to fix the problem.
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After "Landmark" IMF Reforms, U.S. Is Still the Group's Unrivaled Economic Power
In an age-old example of national hubris, America's drive to maintain its centrality – and uncontested power – in the global economy may lead to its eventual replacement.
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Shell's 20-Year Infamy: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Resistance
Two decades after Saro-Wiwa's murder, a Nigerian activist describes the struggle that put justice at the center of environmentalism when the Ogoni People demanded a share of oil wealth from Shell.
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Global Opposition Is Mounting Against the Latest Environmental Abuse – Deep Sea Mining
Seabed mining could have the largest areal impact on the planet of any human activity, akin to deforestation on a massive scale.
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TransCanada Asks the State Department To Suspend Review Of the Keystone XL Pipeline
TransCanada has lost, and it’s one of the climate movement's great victories.
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Why Did U.S. Spend $43 Million To Build A Single Gas Station In Afghanistan?
The revelation marks the latest example of wild, ill-conceived overspending on projects that have come at an exorbitant cost to U.S. taxpayers.
