The burgeoning pro-democracy, anti-Trump movement known as 50501 expects to drive tens and possibly hundreds of thousands to protest in 1,000 cities and towns on Saturday.
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Political Corruption, Capitalism and the Urgency for System Change
To reduce corruption from its current high levels requires something more than additional laws, commissions, invocations of morality, regulations and so on. It requires basic, structural economic change.
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Exclusive: Why West Virginia No Longer Trusts Its Water, Government or Coal Industry
The spill is leading some state natives to question the fate of the coal industry that long sustained them economically – and causing organizers to take West Virigina’s subpar regulation of extractive industries into their own hands.
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12 States and Counting: Vermont Legislation Is Latest to Take on NSA Spying
The Green Mountain State last week introduced the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, which would prohibit any state support of the National Security Agency.
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Why Are Louisiana's Forests Being Sacrificed to Fuel Europe's Biomass Boom?
Environmentalists are crying foul over European corporations using Louisiana’s forests for their profit and polluting the planet in the process.
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Smelling Victory: Is Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Dead?
Protests today against the TPP in dozens of cities cap a 10-day blitz uniting masses of Americans concerned with the environment, GMO labeling and worker rights.
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Abandoning Wall Street and Creating a Public Bank for the City of Los Angeles
A Bank of the City of Los Angeles would not compete with commercial banks but would partner with them, using its tax revenue deposits to create interest-free credit for lending programs that go toward funding city projects.
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Exposed: Outrage In Denmark As Goldman Sachs Buys National Energy Company
Denmark agreed Thursday to sell 19 percent of its state owned energy company, DONG Energy, to U.S. investment giant Goldman Sachs – setting off a storm of protest and the resignation of the Socialist People's Party from the coalition government.
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Exposed: NATO 3 Trial Reveals Entrapment, Police Misconduct, Faulty Evidence
When police encourage and orchestrate ”terrorist plots,” and then arrest their ”co-conspirators” prior to the act, can you call it law enforcement? We're about to find out with the trial of the NATO 3 in Chicago.
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NSA Targets Apps For Spying
The National Security Administration (NSA) and its British counterpart pull data from popular Android smartphone apps like Angry Birds and Google Maps
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How Net Neutrality Lost The Tech Giants
What happens when the cause’s most effective champions outgrow the cause?
