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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Revealed: Blackstone Group Exploited Foreclosure Crisis And Seized Homes Cheap
The world's largest private equity firm has amassed an unprecedented rental empire by buying foreclosed homes at knock-off prices —from Queen Anne Victorians in Atlanta to brick-faced bungalows in Chicago to Spanish revivals in Phoenix.
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Snowden Revelations Prompt UN Investigation Into Surveillance
The UN's senior counterterrorism official says Snowden's revelations "are at the very apex of public interest concerns."
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Why Seattle's Socialist City Councilor Expects Not to Be a Rarity for Long
Kshama Sawant, rising from the Occupy movement, hopes to be the first of many new anti-corporate politicians in America.
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How False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions Are Betraying U.S. Justice System
It's a largely unknown fact that police during interrogations are allowed to present false information to extract a confession — and that once the confession is made, even other evidence such as DNA often fails to overturn the conviction.
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Why Did a Texas Fracking Exec Threaten to Label Residents “Terrorists”?
The chief operating officer of Eagleridge, Inc., is operating straight out of the frack industry playbook, based on a Stratfor document leaked earlier this year which laid out the strategy to label activists as “radicals,” “idealists,” “realists” and “opportunists.”
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Money in Politics: Six of the Top 10 U.S. Billionaires Are Kochs and Waltons
Charles and David Koch, of Koch Industries, have poured some of their combined $72 billion into conservative politicians while the Walton family, owners of Walmart, exercise a subtler but equally corrosive influence on our national politics.
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Thai Protests Swell As "People's Coup" Forces Prime Minister Into Hiding
About 30,000 protesters aligned with the Yellow Shirt movement besieged Thailand's government on Sunday, swarming state agencies, taking control of a state broadcaster and forcing the prime minister to flee a police compound and go into hiding.
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Hundreds of Thousands Flood Ukraine's Streets In Largest Protests Since Orange Revolution
Defying a court ban on protests, Ukrainians poured into the streets Sunday demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and closer ties to the European Union.
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Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor
An exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Srdja Popovic, one of the leading architects of the overthrow of Slobodan Milodevic, has served as an intelligence gatherer for Strator and the U.S. government, informing on activists worldwide.
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Op-Doc: Why Care About the NSA?
Edward Snowden has ignited a debate, and for that I am grateful. But now that he’s done his part, it’s time for all Americans to decide how to respond to his revelations. That is to say, it is no longer his story. It is ours.
