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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Occupy Sandy: OWS Helps Storm Victims
Occupy Wall Street and 350.org have teamed up with Recovers.org, a disaster relief platform, to help coordinate response to Hurricane Sandy.
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How Corporations Literally Annhiliate Us
When you let corporations do whatever they want without regulation, they invariably will stop at nothing to satisfy their greed, even when it literally makes us sick.
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FBI’s New Facial Recognition System Edges Forward
The $1 billion Next Generation Identification system will allow our domestic intelligence to keep permanent recognition files on innocent civilians.
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Corporate Feudalism: Paying Taxes to Your Boss
Employers are already treating their workers like their subjects. Now some of them get to collect taxes, too.
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Understanding What Government Does for You and Me
There is a broad lack of understanding about the role government plays in our everyday lives. Why is that?
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Portland to Protest Austerity
Community groups, Occupy Portland and unions including SEIU, CWA and Letter Carriers will march on Oregon's largest city Nov. 3 as they take aim at proposed government austerity cuts, and demand larger taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
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America Can Learn From France's Fallen Democracy
William Shirer's account of France's efforts to put its finances in order after the enormous expenditures of WWI bears an eerie resemblance to the current farce in Washington.
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Amidst Greek Crisis, Censorship of Journalists
A reporter goes on trial for releasing a list of 2,000 wealthy Greeks with Swiss bank accounts who may face investigation for tax evasion.
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An Exit Strategy from Two-Party Rule
The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is a battle between the corporate state and us.
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Greed is Destroying the World
The refusal to do anything about climate change, the attempts by the .01% to destroy our democracy, the constant robbing of the poor, the resultant starving children, the war against most of what is beautiful on this Earth: You can blame it all on greed.
