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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Costa Rica Got 99% Of Its Energy – That's Right, 99% – From Renewables In 2015
Officials also say the country spent 285 days powered by 100 percent renewable sources – more than two-thirds of the year.
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part II: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
The Greek grassroots movements have molded themselves into a genuine constituent power – using radical imagination to birth new institutions, new social relations and new approaches to organizing social life.
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Britain’s Pay Gap Widens Further As Fat Cat Salaries Exceed 183 Times the Average Wage
If the U.K. had a reason last year to ponder why the poor weren’t “storming the barricades” over income inequality, the county has even more reason to ask the question heading into 2016.
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Spanish Voters Reject Austerity and Corruption As Social Movement Leaders Rise
A Podemos-backed Sánchez government would open a new anti-austerity breach on Europe’s southern flank, as Spaniards reject a new economic model based on low wages and extreme job instability.
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Who’s Responsible For Poisoning Flint’s Water Supply?
The struggling Michigan city is reeling from a lead-poisoning crisis caused by bad state policies.
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More Snowdens Wanted: Germany's "Intelexit" Calls On Spooks To Give Up The Game
A German anti-surveillance collective is seeking to dispel apprehension among other spies who might be contemplating following in Snowden’s footsteps.
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part I: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
The relationship of the Syriza party with the Greek grassroots movements resisting austerity was a marriage of convenience that has ended in broken promises, lost opportunities and a bitter divorce.
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Spain to the Polls: Moving Away from Its Radical Platform, Podemos Has Lost Support
With national elections looming Sunday, descriptions of the party as the "best of a bad bunch" have become more common — especially among the country's vibrant citizen movements.
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Stingrays: A Secret Catalogue of Government Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone
The Intercept has obtained a secret, internal U.S. government document, thick with undisclosed information offering rare insight into the spying capabilities of federal law enforcement and local police.
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The Revolt of the Anxious Class Has Just Begun
For years I’ve listened to their growing anger – in union halls and bars, in coal mines and beauty parlors, on the Main Streets and byways of the washed-out backwaters of America.
