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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Why Are Privately Employed Lobbyists Getting State-Funded Pensions?
There’s a big problem when lobbyists have been pushing austerity and benefit cuts for other government workers while they themselves enjoy solid state pensions.
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Exposed: Cost of Enbridge Oil Spill in Kalamazoo Tops $1 Billion
The Canadian company responsible for the mega-tar sands oil spill in 2010 violated laws involving pipeline management, procedural manuals for operations and maintenance, public awareness and accident reporting, among others.
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Striking "For Our Dignity," U.S. Fast Food Workers Prepare to Walk Off August 29
“How am I supposed to realize the American Dream when I don’t even make enough to buy food?" said 22-year-old Dunkin' Donuts employee Meghan Forde, as fast food workers geared up for Thursday's nationwide strike.
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Taking the Dream Home: August 28 Rallies Ignite Across North Carolina
Sweeping across more than a dozen North Carolina cities on Wednesday, Taking the Dream Home marks the latest evolution of the Moral Monday protests that saw more than 1,000 arrests this summer in the Tar Heel state.
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Spain’s Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes, Part 3
This third of a three-part series looks at the development of the commons, legal, free knowledge, senior citizen's revolution and neo-internationalist micro-utopias that have evolved out of the 15M movement in Spain.
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In Deference to Great Men: Aaron Sorkin vs. the Occupy Movement
Surely, the Occupy Movement had its flaws, but the decision to avoid allowing the Movement to be co-opted by Congress was one of the strengths of Occupy, not its fatal flaw as "The Newsroom's" Will McAvoy alleges.
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Ellen Brown: The Leveraged Buyout of America
Giant banks are buying up our country’s infrastructure, the power and supply chains that are vital to the economy. Aren’t there rules against that?
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We’re All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
Five years after the Lehman Brothers collapse, banking lobbyists have blocked essential reforms at every turn.
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With Opposition to Monsanto Growing, India's Farmers Turn to Traditional Bees and Honey
As India's government prepares to make the controversial Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India bill a law, the tiny bee may be emerging as a potential savior by offering ways to increase crop yields naturally.
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Al Jazeera America: A Radical Voice or Big Media Pawn?
Will the fledgling media outlet tackle the major issues facing Americans that Big Media won’t touch?
