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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Springtime for Democracy: Revolution Is In the Air
“We the people demand a democracy free from the corrupting influence of big money and voter suppression,” they shouted. “We demand a democracy where every vote is counted and every voice is heard. Democracy Spring!”
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Why Isn’t Everyone In Favor of Taxing Financial Speculation?
Wall Street Insiders who trade on confidential information unavailable to small investors don’t improve the productivity of financial markets. They just rig the game for themselves.
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Confessions of a Panama Papers Hit Man
As an Economic Hit Man, I helped forge this global economy that is based on legalized crimes – where 62 individuals have as much wealth as half the world’s population, and a handful of super-rich control governments around the globe.
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"Soon We Will Be Millions": From Paris with Love and Lessons
This is not a protest – Paris is alive with democracy. Real democracy. Overflowing the streets and squares. By Marina Sitrin
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“Yes We Can!" From Spain to Britain to America, a Revitalized Left Is Emerging
What began in Zuccotti Park and then spread across North America was a major contributor to the Bernie Sanders phenomenon that has forced leftwing ideas into the U.S. political conversation for the first time in decades.
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In Oakland, Replacing Predatory Lenders with Community Finance
Without adequate access to capital, neighborhoods, individuals, families, small businesses, organizations, and nonprofits cannot fully succeed.
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Only Bernie Sanders Can Break the Power of Capitalism in the U.S.
The real question in this election is what kind of progressive politics will govern America – one that leaves the power of money intact or, as in the great reforming eras of U.S. politics, fundamentally re-orders capitalism?
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#PanamaPapers: Forget Targeting Individuals, Let's Tackle Structural Corruption
There is a dangerous narrative emerging in which we're becoming preoccupied with the personalities in this debacle, and not their collusion with a system that's shafting us in every possible way.
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Bernie and the Big Banks
The recent kerfluffle about Bernie Sanders purportedly not knowing how to bust up the big banks says far more about the threat Sanders poses to the Democratic establishment and its Wall Street wing than it does about the candidate himself.
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The Climate Hour Is Late – Time To Rapidly Break Free From Fossil Fuels
After many years of political system failure, we can rely only on a massive people power wave capable of making demands for fundamental and rapid system change.
