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Revealed: Global Anti-Money Laundering Campaign Is Failing Through Weak Financial Oversight
After nearly 25 year of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement an anti-money laundering regime that works.
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In Brazil Protests, People Triumphed In the Streets But New Uncertainties Emerged
In response to the abusive fare increases, the recent protests in Brazil make way, once again, for direct action tactics: taking the struggle out into the streets to effectively confront private interests and recent state politics.
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Doubling Student Interest Rates Will Turn A Generation Against Congress
The real story is about the slow dismantling of affordable education — one of the last means of upward mobility in America — and the exclusion of a generation from the "American Dream."
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Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough — We Need the Power to Stop It
At the core of the surveillance state is the hollowness of its democratic pretenses. Only with authentic democracy can we save ourselves from devastating evisceration of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
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Global Power Project, Part 5: Banking on Influence With Goldman Sachs
We examined a total of 83 individuals at Goldman Sachs, including executives, members of the board of directors and several advisory boards, to uncover their connections within some of the world's powerful institutions.
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The Insider Threat Program: Obama's Crackdown on Leaks That "Aid the Enemy"
Even before Edward Snowden exposed the secret collection of Americans’ phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a new and unprecedented government-wide crackdown on security threats.
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Thompson v. Heineman: How a Nebraska Lawsuit Could Further Delay the Keystone XL Pipeline
The lawsuit is challenging the constitutionality of a pipeline-siting law that gave the Dept. of Environmental Quality and Nebraska's governor authority to evaluate and approve Keystone XL over the Public Service Commission.
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Review: The Billionaire's Apprentice and the Gaming of Wall Street
Anita Raghavan has written a tour-de-force book that captures the realities of race and unfettered greed in contemporary America.
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Boycott! A Call to Renew the Resistance that Works
Where are the momentous, consciousness-raising boycotts of yesteryear that rose up against injustice, bigotry, or plain stupidity, to advance legal, civil and workers’ rights?
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License Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records on Drivers
License plate readers installed on the outside of police cars can log thousands of license plates in a single patrol shift.
