Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Evading Taxes: 10,000 Bank Subsidiaries Can't be Wrong
The biggest banks have created more than 10,000 tax-dodging subsidiaries over the last two decades. Their corporate tax havens cost the U.S. government $60 billion in annual lost revenue.
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Congress Set to Take Food Aid Away From Millions of Americans
Congress is set to take food aid away from millions of hungry Americans, even as it protects billions in crop insurance for large-scale agri-farm and insurance corporations. This is what corporate dictatorship looks like.
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Occupy the Dam: Brazil's Indigenous Uprising
In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world’s third-largest dam—by dismantling it. Here’s what they can teach us about standing up to power.
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The Friday Rant: Understanding Why We're Screwed
What can we do when fraud is the predominant business model?
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7 Companies That Make Bank While Stiffing Their Workers
A handful of ultra-rich companies are raking in untold profits while paying their workers peanuts. Here is a list of the mega-billion corporations that specialize in offering low-wage jobs, including Walmart, Starbucks, McDonald's and Con Edison.
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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, Southern California erupted, the Occupied Chicago Tribune won the battle to keep its name, The Tax Dodgers were honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and time is running out to prosecute the financial crimes of 2008.
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Lawsuit Calls Out NYPD For Violent Suppression of Occupy Wall Street
The City of New York must take immediate action to correct the clear pattern of abusive policing of Occupy Wall Street protests.
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LIBOR: When Finance Usurps Democracy
Titanic banks have hit the LIBOR iceberg. The charges of racketeering, antitrust violations, wire fraud, bid-rigging and price-fixing are adding up. Will lawsuits sink the ship?
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Victory in Minnesota as Ruby Brown Keeps Her Home
After five years of battling Bank of America for her home, a North Minneapolis woman wins the foreclosure battle -- and says "so many people in the same situation" can do the same.
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How Oil Companies Spend Their $375 Million In Daily Profits
The five biggest oil companies earned $375 million in profits per day last year – or more than a quarter of a million dollars per minute, more than 96 percent of American households make in a year. So just where, and on what, are they spending those billions?
