If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
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When Mainstream Meets Occupy: What the New Democratic Message Might Look Like
The 1 percent continue to capture virtually all of the country's income growth as the average incomes of the 99 percent fall, and Americans know it – which is why politicians and mainstream economists are now scrambling to respond.
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Money In Politics Takes Central Stage In New Hampshire Where A Rebellion Is Underway
Lawrence Lessig, who led the NH Rebellion, eschews the term "campaign finance reform" – he prefers "corruption," because money determines who wins primaries, who wins elections, who gets hired, and what laws get passed in D.C.
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“New Model Cities” In Honduras Would Hand All Power to Corporations
So-called Special Economic Development Zones will not only be economically independent, but they'll be exclusively governed by corporations, both local and international, which will create and enforce their own laws.
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Thousands of Californians March In Largest Ever Anti-Frack Protest, Calling For Statewide Ban
Californians marched Saturday through downtown Oakland calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to fulfill his promise as a climate leader by enacting an all-out ban on fracking in the state.
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"A Line in the Sand" in Fight to Release Thousands of Photos of Prisoner Abuse
A federal judge is demanding that the government explain, photo-by-photo, why it can’t release hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of pictures showing detainee abuse by U.S. forces at military prison sites in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Kirchner Cover-Up: Dead Prosecutor Drafted Arrest Warrant for Argentine President
On Jan. 14, Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman filed a 289-page criminal complaint accusing President Kirchner and others of covering up Iran’s involvement in the 1994 bombing. Five days later, he was killed.
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Net Neutrality Victory: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Declares "The Internet Must Be Fast, Fair and Open"
After facing a deluge of 4 million public comments, Wheeler announces "the strongest open internet protections ever proposed by the FCC... assuring the rights of internet users to go where they want, when they want."
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Berea Is Burning: Fracking, Fires and the Grassroots Action That's Inflamed Kentucky
Energy companies are quietly scrambling to lease mineral rights from eastern Kentuckian landowners, but this time they’re not after coal – and an activist community is rising to challenge corporate interests.
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In Absence of Accountability, General Motors Kills Hundreds of People for Profit
Unless we end the corporate rule over our government, executives at General Motors will continue to get away with negligent murder.
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The Super-Rich Can’t Hide From the Rest of Us
With growing inequality and the civil unrest from Ferguson and the Occupy protests fresh in people’s mind, the world’s super rich are already preparing for the consequences.
