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The Time For A New Economics Is At Hand
Just as Occupy Wall Street aimed at exposing the failures of the financial industry, the kick-it-over campaign aims to expose the failures of the economics profession.
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Systemic Racial Inequality Within The Justice System – By the Numbers
Only 36% of blacks are confident that police treat blacks and whites equally, compared to 72% of whites.
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End Mining Now: Appalachian People's Foot Movement Comes Down On Mountaintop Coal Removal
An extraordinary alliance of residents, environmental groups and national civil rights organizations has officially declared “No More Mountaintop Removal Permits Day” starting March 16 in Charleston, West Virginia.
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New Turkish Film Frames Gezi Resistance as a Western-Organized Conspiracy
A Turkish blockbuster film released in February ties Gezi Park, Turkey's 2013 corruption scandal and the government’s open war with the Gülenist movement as a Western-organized conspiracy to deny Turkey’s rightful place as a global power.
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How Jails Became Warehouses for the Poor, Ill and Addicted
A recent report found that the majority of people incarcerated in local and county jails committed minor violations including driving with suspended licenses, shoplifting or evading subway fares – and simply can't pay the $500 bail to leave.
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Climate Deniers Attempt to Block "Merchants of Doubt" Film
Climate denier Fred Singer lobbied fellow skeptics to create a backlash, and proposed legal action, against the film that exposes industry’s role in manipulating the U.S. debate on climate change.
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Four Years Later, Fukushima Victims Speak – But Will Anyone Listen?
On the 4th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Americans may be surprised to learn that no one in Japan has been held accountable – that in fact Japanese police and prosecutors have yet to conduct a thorough investigation.
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The Noose Around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments
To buy Greece's bonds as collateral, the European Central Bank is first asking the country to sell off its public assets, slash salaries and pensions, drastically increase taxes and dismantle its social services – all to save the banking system.
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Why A Loss for Chicago’s Mayor 1% Could Be the Win Progressives Have Been Waiting For
Rahm Emanuel’s cascade of calamities points to larger problems within a Democratic party being tugged by neoliberals of the Clinton/Obama school and forces that oppose the party's long rightward drift.
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Justice Must Flow: Economic Democracy and the Water Commons
The water crisis has nothing to do with the actual availability of water – the culprit is local communities’ inability to control their wealth, their common resources and their institutions of lending and credit.
