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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2018 World Inequality Report Shows An Economic Ship Blown Way Off Course
Should the U.S. continue to institute tax policies like the new GOP plan, the gap between the rich and the poor will keep widening until it reaches a breaking point.
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More Protesters Killed In Iran as Rouhani's Plea Fails to Dampen Unrest
At least 12 people have died in clashes around the country and a police officer was reportedly shot dead in the city of Najafabad.
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Preparing for the Great Transformation
The crises we face have been building for decades. They are reaching a point of extremism that will create an even greater response by people. What that response is, where it goes and what it accomplishes are up to all of us to determine.
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EPA Allowing Widespread Use of Unapproved Pesticides
The EPA has granted 78 "emergency" exceptions over the past six years for a well-known, bee-killing pesticide called sulfoxaflor, allowing its use on more than 17.5 million acres of U.S. farmland.
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10 Amazing Social Movement Struggles in 2017 that Give Us Reason To Hope
From a mining ban in El Salvador and a new law targeting transnational corporations in France, to the popular resistance fighting the Trump agenda in the U.S. and the global rollback of failed privatization schemes, progress is afoot.
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This Holiday, Striking Railworkers In Britain Demand More Drivers on Trains
Railway strikes are at the forefront of industrial action in the U.K. today, with overground train drivers embroiled in a long-running dispute over the role, and safety, of Driver-Only Operation (DOO) on their trains.
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U.K. Is on Course For the Longest Fall in Living Standards Since Records Began
Even after Britain's “worst decade for productivity growth since 1812 – when Napoleon was busy invading Russia,” the age of austerity is far from over – and the inequality gap in the world’s sixth richest country is only widening.
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How Northwest Communities Are Stopping Big Oil Projects
Earlier this month, a Washington state energy panel voted unanimously to oppose what would be the nation’s largest oil-by-rail terminal.
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A Lawsuit Seeks to Uncover How the DOJ Surveils Journalists
If First Amendment rights prevail, more truths can be expected to leak as journalists work to hold the administration accountable.
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The Man from Red Vienna, Part II
The great leftist thinker Karl Polanyi correctly observed that democracy cannot survive an excessively free market – and that containing the market is the task of politics. To ignore that truth, he understood, is to court fascism.
