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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Blind Leading the Blind: The Financial Crisis and the Decline of Democracy
In western Europe we are effectively witnessing a growing inability of the ruling elite, who know less and less how to rule.
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A Martyr in the Fight for Free Online Access to Research
In death, Aaron Swartz has become a political martyr for the cause he championed in life: making scientific and scholarly research freely available.
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The Real "Recovery": Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control
Since June of 2009, 88% of all U.S. growth went to corporate profits, while wages and salaries represented 1% of growth. There's never been a worse recovery for jobs and worker pay -- and never a better one for corporate profits.
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Obama Transparency Check: Wikileaks, the Espionage Act and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
From his unprecedented six-time use of the Espionage Act, to his administration's failure to uphold First Amendment rights for Wikileaks, to the suppression of information about TPP negotiations, Obama has been anything but transparent.
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Seven Brides For Seven Corporations
Days before the third anniversary of the Citizens United ruling, Occupy Wall Street organized an extravagant piece of political street theater: a wedding in which seven brides were to marry seven corporations.
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Wagging the Dog on Bahrain, Where U.S.-Backed Crackdown on Democracy Continues
Amid so many non-news stories in the past few weeks, the U.S. government aiding in Bahrain's brutal crackdown of nonviolent pro-democracy protests has gone completely unnoticed.
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Your Daily Dose of Satire: "N.R.A. Defends Right to Own Politicians"
We laugh, because we will cry if we don't.
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Money For Nothing: An Hourly Breakdown of Congressional Influence
Members of Congress spend just four hours a day doing the work citizens elected them to do.
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How Factory Farming is Burning Up Our Planet
Organic consumers and climate hawks alike are taking a more comprehensive look at the fundamental causes of global warming - and finding that industrial food and farming systems are the major cause.
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Three Ways to Block Republican Gerrymandering of the Electoral College
RNC chairman Reince Priebus is promoting one of the most blatant assaults on democracy in modern times—a scheme to gerrymander the Electoral College so that the loser of the popular vote could win key states and the presidency.
