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U.S.-European Corporate Maneuvers: When Privacy Becomes A Barrier to Economic Growth
With all eyes focused on Greece, the European parliament has quietly passed a non-binding resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a damning corporate trade pact between Europe and the U.S.
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Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby: I Owe My Success to "Warrior Women"
“For me, as a young black woman, to run against an older white male incumbent, powerful, with the ability to raise close to a million dollars, the skeptics wanted to know: how could I have the audacity?”
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The U.K. Is Privatizing Aid to the Developing World As Corporations Seek Their Cut
The U.K. government has increased support for the private sector benefiting corporations – not the people who need it.
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After Water Privatization In This Pennsylvania City, The Poor Pay the Price
Almost a quarter of Coatesville’s population live below the poverty line – yet residents spend more than $100 each month for water, feeding the coffers of the private Pennsylvania-American Water Co.
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Solutions Remain In Greece: Nationalize the Banks, Turn the Credit Spigots Back On
Greece could provide an inspiring model of sustainable prosperity for the world – but it's being strangled by a hegemonic power in a financial war that is being waged against us all.
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Syriza Surrenders: Time for Renewed Popular Resistance
Now that Syriza has caved in to the creditors, the need for grassroots mobilization is more urgent than ever – a new cycle of struggles is ahead of us.
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We Don't Need Your Dirty Business: Santa Cruz Washes Its Hands of Felon Banks
While big banks continue to ruin communities and personal lives with light impunity, in some cases the people are fighting back.
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100 Ohio Officials Tell Governor: Time to Ban Fracking In the State
Mayors, county commissioners and city councilors have issued a letter to Ohio Gov. John Kasich asking for the right to ban the hazardous drilling practice within state borders.
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Anti-Fossil Fuel Protests Sweep New York and Vermont
On the anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic crude oil disaster, activists staged protests last week aimed at stopping the transportation and use of fossil fuels, and scored arrests in the process.
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With "Mental Waterboarding" Germany Tells Greece: Surrender Fiscal Sovereignty In Return for Bailout
A weekend of high tension that threatened to break Europe in two climaxed on Sunday night when the leaders of Germany and France presented Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with the ultimatum.
