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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The Time Is Now for Direct Action on Climate Change
We're in an emergency, and no one in power is treating it as such. What has a chance of waking politicians of their torpor and spurring them – spurring all of us – to act with the clarity and determination the situation requires?
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After Landmark Ruling Allows Fracking In Lancashire, U.K. Gears for Direct Action Protests
“We’ve exhausted every democratic process available to us – the petitions, the planning objections, the lobbying of MPs, the public meetings," said Tina Rothery, who predicts a new wave of direct actions will follow.
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Confronting Crisis of Legitimacy, Scotland Could Break or Remake the European Union
To respect the democratic will of the both peoples, Scots and Northern Irish should be given the choice which union to stay in, Britain or Europe, with new referendums.
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Income Inequality Reaches New High In Germany
The divide between rich and poor in Germany is increasing, with fewer Germans advancing out of poverty compared to 20 years ago.
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Occupy Is Everywhere
The return of encampments as a tactic is telling us something, if we’d care to listen.
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The Big Banking Scandal Wall Street Is Hiding From You
Your community’s tax dollars are getting quietly pilfered by Wall Street banks, and the banks are doing an excellent job of keeping the how away from you.
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence
The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency and the FBI.
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A Failure To Integrate: The Darker Picture of Europe's Refugee Crisis
The European Union has had a long history of conditionally welcoming refugees – Germany and France being prime examples in the 1950s – but an equally long history of failure to integrate them.
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The World Has Passed A Dangerous CO2 Pollution Threshold, But Climate Deniers Still Push U.S. Inaction
As we surpass dangerous CO2 pollution levels and the evidence of climate change is visible all over the U.S., we’re still a country ruled largely by climate change deniers. Worse still, we don’t seem all that concerned by that fact.
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Louisiana's Tea Party Congressmen Seek Flood Aid – After They Rejected Sandy Relief
How's this for irony: the political ideology so fervently espoused by Tea Party Congressmen from Louisiana could leave their constituents – the people affected by this summer's flooding – without the means to rebuild their communities.
