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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Britain's National Health Service Being "Atomized" by Private Sector
Over 100 private healthcare firms in Britain will be allowed to provide basic care, prompting fears among senior doctors that public hospital services may go out of business.
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Surprise, Surprise: The Banks Win
A settlement reportedly in the works with big banks will soon end a review into foreclosure abuses, and it means more of the same: no accountability for financial institutions and little help for borrowers.
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Renditions Continue Under Obama
The Obama administration has embraced rendition despite widespread condemnation of the tactic.
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Climate Change Won’t Wait for the President
It’s not a fight, like education reform or abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. We’re talking about a fight between human beings and physics.
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Matt Damon’s "Promised Land" Draws Ire of Fracking Industry
The Gus Van Sant film depicts a gas industry that uses cash bribes, hard sells and Machiavellian maneuvers to get its way.
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Longshore Struggle Brews on East Coast
It's been 35 years since the International Longshoremen's Association went out on strike, but membership is ready to pick up its picket signs.
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We’re Tumbling Over an Inequity Cliff
By shifting the definition of who is rich, the fiscal cliff deal passed by Congress extends many of the notions that have made the United States the most economically unfair it has been in half a century.
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UBS Libor Manipulation Merits a Death Penalty
A more emphatic message needs to be sent to UBS bank by its prudential regulator in the U.S.: You are finished in this country.
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Open Letter to the FBI, From a Former Houston Occupier
I’m not a terrorist or a criminal. I’m an American citizen nonviolently protesting the fact that corporations and banks can buy influence in Washington.
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Cost of Combating Climate Change Surges as World Delays
An agreement by almost 200 nations to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 will be far more costly than taking action now to tackle climate change.
