Exposed: Outrage In Denmark As Goldman Sachs Buys National Energy Company

Denmark agreed Thursday to sell 19 percent of its state owned energy company, DONG Energy, to U.S. investment giant Goldman Sachs – setting off a storm of protest and the resignation of the Socialist People's Party from the coalition government.

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Now Is the Moment to Save Our Postal Commons

Because postal services, owned by the people, are part of the commons, the attack on public postal utilities amounts to an attack on the commons itself.

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How the Federal Reserve and Bank of England Are Fueling Massive Global Inequality

That the U.S. and U.K.'s central banks are encouraging food speculation — and are thus responsible for its disastrous results — shows clearly how both countries' monetary policies are engineered to work against the interests of the majority.

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Volcker Rule Approved By All 5 Regulators Signals Crackdown on Wall Street Banks

The 953-page edict, part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, codifies and restricts the way banks trade securities, setting in motion a broad new government rule to limit risk-taking by Wall Street and scale back trading activities.

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How Defending Private Intelligence Firm Collaborators Screws Grassroots Activists

Collaborating with such an insidious firm is bad enough, but defending that collaborator in spite of all the evidence that’s been made public is irresponsible and potentially hazardous to activists in the long run.

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Revealed: Blackstone Group Exploited Foreclosure Crisis And Seized Homes Cheap

The world's largest private equity firm has amassed an unprecedented rental empire by buying foreclosed homes at knock-off prices —from Queen Anne Victorians in Atlanta to brick-faced bungalows in Chicago to Spanish revivals in Phoenix.

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Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor

An exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Srdja Popovic, one of the leading architects of the overthrow of Slobodan Milodevic, has served as an intelligence gatherer for Strator and the U.S. government, informing on activists worldwide.

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Will Hawaii’s Big Island Ban GMO Farming?

The Big Island of Hawaii County Council will consider a bill that would prohibit open-air growing of genetically modified organisms and end biotech experiments on the island.

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Reclaiming the Roadblock, UK Uncut Takes Direct Action Against Austerity

Complementing other British anti-austerity movements in recent years, UK Uncut has proved perhaps the most successful at mobilizing activists from across the country to challenge corporate evasion of taxes.

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How Redistribution to the Rich Has Furthered Poverty and Crushed the Middle Class

Because of the housing crisis and recession, the median family net worth dropped 40 percent between 2007 and 2010, while the richest Americans regained all their losses and began an even steeper climb to the top.

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