It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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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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The Man from Red Vienna, Part I
Market society, Karl Polanyi persuasively demonstrated, could only exist because of deliberate government action defining property rights, terms of labor, trade, and finance. “Laissez faire,” he impishly wrote, “was planned.”
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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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To Save Internet They Helped Create, Web Pioneers Demand FCC Cancel Net Neutrality Vote
More than 20 internet founders and industry leaders wrote an open letter warning that FCC chair Ajit Pai's plan to kill net neutrality poses "imminent threat" to the web.
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Trump Takes a Stand For Corruption – By Withdrawing U.S. from Anti-Corruption Pact
Trump's hasty, under-reported move sent an unmistakable signal: corruption is tolerated if it helps line corporate pockets.
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Trump White House Weighing Plans for Private Spies to Counter "Deep State" Enemies
Proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer, with assistance from Oliver North, would provide Trump and CIA Director Mike Pompeo with a global private spy network to circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies.
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FCC Chief Plans to Ditch Net Neutrality Rules
The commission will vote at a Dec. 14 meeting on a plan to rescind the rules championed by President Obama that treat internet service providers like public utilities.
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How Prosecutors Turn A Protest Into a "Riot"
I joined hundreds of thousands of protesters at counterdemonstrations around Trump’s swearing-in. Little did I know I would be swept up into a legal nightmare that demonstrates how prosecutors intimidate and manipulate defendants into giving up their rights.
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The FBI’s Dangerous Crackdown on "Black Identity Extremists"
The "BIE" movement, just recently invented by the F.B.I., is as frightening and dangerous as the bureau’s infamous Cointelpro program of the 1960s and ’70s under which J. Edgar Hoover set out to disrupt and destroy virtually any group with the word “black” in its name.
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Town’s Private Prison Goes Bust
Contrary to popular belief, private prisons often don’t save the economies of the rural towns that seek them out.
