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 Financial Firm That Cornered the Market on Jails
Numi Financial is in more than 400 jails across the country and issues more than 600,000 debit cards a year to people who have been arrested and released – with hefty fees attached.
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In Bid To Reclaim Senate Seat, Russ Feingold Isn't the Same Old Maverick
Wisconsin's former champion of campaign finance reform is working more closely than ever with PACs to get re-elected – prompting questions about his credentials as a progressive leader in 2016.
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Stiglitz Calls Apple’s Profit Reporting in Ireland a Fraud
The Nobel economist, Joseph Stiglitz, said U.S. tax law that allows Apple Inc. to hold a large amount of cash abroad is “obviously deficient.”
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Naples rising: rebel youth movements buzz in the old city
Activists highlight that the un-rehabilitated industrial area of Bagnoli, on the city's outskirts, begs for alternative visions for unemployed workers of the closed-down steel industry rather than gentrifying tourist masses.
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Is Britain’s New Prime Minister more "Radically Right-Wing" Than We Thought?
Theresa May's new Head of Policy had drawn up plans to lower the minimum wage in poorer U.K. regions.
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Neoliberalism Almost Killed Baltimore. These Candidates Want to Rebuild Their City
This November, far below the tragicomic rhetoric of third parties and presidential elections, neighborhoods in Baltimore will decide whether to again entrust their future to big business-oriented Democrats, or take a chance on radical economic democracy.
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Appeals Court Smacks Down North Carolina’s Attempt to Suppress the Black Vote
On Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit invalidated North Carolina’s stringent new voting restrictions, holding that the law violates both the United States Constitution and the Voting Rights Act.
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Indigenous People Killed As Crisis Is Erupting On Nicaraguan Coast
Settlers are attacking indigenous communities with automatic firearms, killing, plundering and forcing residents to flee their ancestral lands, while foreign companies have entered the territory illegally and are burning the region at a rapid rate.
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For the Country's Lower Half, Perils of Rising Inequality Becoming Painfully Clear
Recent research published about the Great Recession adds to the already clear evidence that rising inequality translates into nearly all of today's winnings going to the wealthy.
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Occupy Corbyn: The Battle to Keep, Or Oust, Leftist Labour Leader Takes Center Stage
The anti-Corbyn forces within Labour might very well have achieved the complete opposite of what they aimed to achieve.
