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 There Suddenly Millions of Socialists in America?
It used to be a dirty word. Bernie Sanders helped remove the stigma – but it’s the spectacular failure of capitalism that has really changed people’s minds.
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The Financial Turn-Around Starts Here: A Public Bank for Santa Fe
Banking on New Mexico believes the time is right for a better long-term strategy that includes a public bank to invest our public funds – interest earned from taxes, fees and fines we all pay – back into our community.
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The 30-Year Economic Betrayal Dragging Down Millennials' Income
The full scale of the financial rout facing millennials is revealed today in exclusive new data that points to a perfect storm of factors besetting an entire generation of young adults around the world: debt, joblessness and unaffordable rent.
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Europe Needs A Plan B: Radical Political Change Is Coming
With Yanis Varoufakis at the helm of a recent weekend gathering in Madrid, workshops and debates fed into a concluding statement that called for no less than a democratic revolution across Europe.
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Top Drillers Shut Down U.S. Fracking Operations as Oil Prices Continue to Tank
Giants in the fracking business – from Chesapeake Energy and Continental Resources to Whiting Petroleum and Halliburton – closed down drilling operations nationwide, leaving thousands of oil job in the lurch.
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US agency reaches 'holy grail' of battery storage sought by Elon Musk and Gates
The breakthrough in next generation battery technology could transform America's electrical grid within five to 10 years, said the research agency Arpa-E – which seized on a discovery hotly pursued by Bill Gates, Elon Musk and others.
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Berta Cáceres, Honduran human rights and environment activist, murdered
The co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras was shot dead by gunmen who entered her home at around 1am on Thursday – barely a week after Cáceres was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project.
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Right-to-Know Fight Heats Up as Pro-GMO DARK Act Advances
US Senate committee approves bill that would overrule mandatory label laws passed on the state level
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World's super rich keep buying up luxury goods in face of wealth decline
Sales of super-yachts rose 40% last year despite number of millionaires and ultra rich falling, according to wealth report
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10 New Ways Other Countries Are Actually Solving Problems—and Kicking Our Ass
Apparently for some, American exceptionalism means exceptional stupidity.
