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Subsidies To Industries That Cause Deforestation Worth 100 Times More Than Aid To Prevent It
Brazil and Indonesia have handed out over $40 billion in subsidies to the palm oil, timber, soy, beef and biofuels sectors between 2009 and 2012 – 126 times more than the $346 million they received from the UN to preserve their rainforests.
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Here Are All the Athletes, Celebrities, and CEOs Joining the Indiana Backlash
The state is reeling from a PR crisis since Gov. Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which will give businesses the option to discriminate against LGBT customers on religious grounds.
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Four Reasons Why Corporations Owe Us – and One Way to Pay
Because corporations have used our resources — research, infrastructure, environment, educational and legal systems — to develop technologies that have gradually reduced the need for human involvement, we all deserve to benefit.
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Maple Spring: The Red Square Movement Returns As Anti-Austerity Protests Heat Up In Quebec
Quebec's militant student actions have resulted in the lowest costs for post-secondary education in North America – and it has also meant less debt for young people entering a stagnant economy.
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This is Not a Democracy: How the 1 Percent Rigged the Game
Money is speech and dollars have more influence than people. It's time to be honest about the plutocracy we live in.
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How the "Flood Wall Street" Trial Changed the Game Of Policing
By ordering protesters to leave the entire Wall Street area, police violated protesters’ First Amendment right to carry their message directly to its intended recipients: the Wall Street bankers who bankroll climate change, a judge ruled.
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Destroying the Greek Economy In Order To Save It
Blackmail is an understatement of what the Troika is doing to Greece, where European authorities are using dirty tactics to bring the Mediterranean country to heel.
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Why Indiana's "Religious Freedom" Law is Great News for Student Debtors
There’s now an easy solution for all student debtors who are locked into a lifetime of debt with ever-increasing interest: Become a Christian and move to Indiana. Hallelujah!
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The London School of Economics Occupation Is the Latest In A Growing Wave of Student Revolts
Student occupations are spreading across the U.K., ignited by Occupy LSE, a student-staff takeover that began on March 17 at the London School of Economics.
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A Wave of Disruption Is Sweeping In To Challenge Neoliberalism
An emerging relationship between the state and a commons-based civil society is starting to challenge the narrow thinking of the U.K.’s main political parties
