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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Houston’s Most Polluted Neighborhood Draws the Line at Alberta Tar Sands
If the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, 90 percent of the tar sands crude that flows through it will be processed near an embattled Houston neighborhood called Manchester.
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Uh-Oh: Banks Have Become “Too Big To Fail” Again
And there’s only so much governments are willing to do about it.
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Fannie Mae Evicts Family in Foreclosure, Then Installs Armed Guards
Since January, Fannie Mae has spent nearly $50,000 of what is essentially public money to keep one home empty.
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Big Pharma is Making Billions at the Expense of Our Health
Pharmaceutical giants are recycling old and discredited drugs while marketing diseases to sell the few new ones.
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CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law
Almost three years after Congress ordered public companies to reveal actual CEO-to-worker pay ratios under the Dodd-Frank law, the numbers remain unknown.
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Are People Living Near Fracking Sites Getting Sick?
It's a simple question.
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This May Day in Berlin: 7,000 Imported Police, with Marching Routes Exposed
The Berlin government has brought in an additional 7,000 police officers from around Germany to aid in controlling what has become a traditional outbreak of violence on May Day.
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19-Year-Old Kennedy: Why It’s Worth Going to Jail to Stop Keystone XL
Ever since I chained myself to the White House fence with 47 other protestors urging President Obama to kill the Keystone pipeline, people have asked me why I felt so strongly about the issue.
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From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy
Here's how manufacturers, retailers, restaurants and others are doing business the cooperative way.
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Bail-out Is Out, Bail-in Is In: Another Argument for Publicly-Owned Banks
The deposits of U.S. pension funds are well over the insured limit of $250,000. They will get raided just as the pension funds did in Cyprus, and so will the insurance companies. Who else?
