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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New Shell Oil Laboratory at Oxford Meets Organized Resistance
A coalition of environmental protesters has targeted Shell for co-opting one of the world’s most prestigious universities and demanded an end to Big Oil's pollution of British education.
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The GMO Coup: How Monsanto Took Over the U.S. Agriculture Department
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been taken over by an outside organization. RootsAction has launched a campaign demanding a Congressional investigation.
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Privacy or Security: Do We Only Get To Pick One?
After the Boston Marathon bombing, 61 percent of Americans said they were more concerned about the government enacting new anti-terrorism policies that would restrict their civil liberties.
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60 Minutes and the Billionaire Agenda
Journalist Lesley Stahl's segment about the adoption of military counterinsurgency techniques by U.S. police forces failed to mention that Stahl sits on the board of the Peterson Foundation, which heavily favors U.S. police militarization.
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Why the TransPacific Partnership is a Scary Big (So-Called Trade) Deal
Like a supersized NAFTA, the TPP gives foreign corporations privileges that can override domestic laws on environmental health and citizens’ rights. Here’s why we shouldn’t let it pass without a fight.
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Teenagers, Social Media, Terrorism — and the Price for a "Free Society"
Authorities are leaning toward zero tolerance of teenagers who fling around online threats about acts of violence or terrorism, and what might have once merited a slap on the wrist may today result in criminal charges.
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The Fix Is In: Obama Did It for the Money
The love fest between Barack Obama and his top fundraiser Penny Pritzker that has led to her being nominated as Commerce secretary would not be so unseemly if they both just confessed that they did it for the money.
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Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker? What’s next? Labor Secretary Donald Trump? SEC Chairman Bernie Madoff? The president's latest high-level appointments — boosting corporate power and shafting the public — are despicable.
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Defanging Dodd-Frank To Protect Wall Street Vampires
The House Committee on Financial Services passed a package of bills that would overturn derivatives regulations set in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
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Hedges: The Death of Truth
The global assault on Wikileaks is part of the terrifying metamorphosis of the “war on terror” into a wider war on civil liberties — a hunt not for actual terrorists, but for all those with the ability to expose the mounting crimes of the power elite.
