If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
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What It Takes To Expose Corruption – For Ghana's Top Undercover Journalist, A Good Disguise
Anas Aremeyaw Anas has a range of tools he uses when trying o expose government corruption – from an array of wigs, prosthetic masks and tiny cameras, to feigning madness, posing as a street hawker and even dressing up as a rock.
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San Francisco Activists Shut Down "Climate Profiteers" In Flood Wall Street West
The action comes one year after protesters held a mass sit-in on Wall Street in New York City to highlight the ties between capitalism and planetary destruction.
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#BlackWorkersMatter: Confronting Race to Build a Stronger Movement for Economic Justice
Black workers have been, for the working class as a whole, the canary in the mine. What befalls the black worker inevitably confronts the bulk of the U.S. working class.
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In a Win for the Climate Movement, Shell Freezes Arctic Drilling
The oil giant abandoned its Arctic search for oil after failing to find enough crude, representing a big defeat for Big Oil after months of sustained protests.
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One Bank to Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements, Part I
While its purpose has changed and evolved over the decades, the BIS has always been a club for central bankers – one that has aided some countries more than others.
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"Who Pays" Report Shows Why Women Of Color Bear the Costs of Mass Incarceration
Surveys of hundreds of formerly incarcerated people and their families in 14 states show that the true costs, emotional and financial, continue long after incarceration ends and reach far beyond the individual being punished
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After Record Pollution, Parisians See Blue Sky As Climate Summit's Host Goes Car-Free
A rise in air pollution this year made France's capital the most polluted city in the world – so when Mayor Anne Hidalgo launched the idea of a car-free day, carbon exhaust was top of the agenda with the COP-21 conference close at hand.
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US Dollar Dominance and the Coming Crisis In Emerging Markets
The Fed's quantitative easing program channeled trillions of dollars out of advanced and into emerging market economies – laying the groundwork for an even bigger, meaner financial crisis that will extend across all economies, great and small.
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Border Patrol Agent Indicted In Fatal Shooting of Mexican Teenager
Federal authorities have charged U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz with second degree murder for killing 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez in a cross-border shooting, under the claim that he had been throwing rocks.
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Martin Shkreli Is An Example Of Why We Need Publicly Funded Pharmaceutical Research
Facing national outrage, the 32-year-old CEO backed down from the 5000% price increase his company announced this week for the malaria and toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim, sparking an overdue debate about the outlandish cost of life-saving medicines.
