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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Revealed: "Monsanto Protection Act" Trumps U.S. Government
Monsanto snuck a "rider" last week into the latest Senate agricultural legislation, giving the biotech giant blanket immunity from USDA action to halt potentially harmful GMO crops.
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Naming and Shaming: 10 Worst Forbes Billionaires in 2013
The combined wealth of the world's billionaires this year hit an all-time high of $5.4 trillion, up from $4.6 trillion in 2012.
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FBI Surveillance Tool is Ruled Unconstitutional
A California federal court has ruled that a surveillance tool widely used by the FBI to obtain information on Americans without court oversight is unconstitutional.
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The Great Garbage Patch of the Pacific
When you can scoop up in our oceans more plastic than biomass, it's time to recognize that we may have a problem.
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Brooklyn Rises Up in Protest of Police Shooting
East Flatbush rises up after an unarmed 16-year-old is shot seven times by police.
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In Zurich, and Across Europe, Squatter Communities Are Strengthening
Last weekend, 4,000 supporters of Binz, Zurich’s longest-established squat, were met with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons when a party turned into a march to protest their imminent eviction.
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Strike Debt Abolishes $1 million in Emergency Room Debt
Strike Debt bought and abolished over $1 million in debt from emergency rooms in Kentucky and Indiana.
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When Our "Government of Laws" Is Above the Law
Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking for the administration with an alarmingly casual nonchalance, traduced the whole notion of a nation of laws.
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Switzerland Sets the Example for Income Equality
Two-thirds of the Swiss, who are not exactly a revolutionary people, have given the shareholders of financial institutions the right to decide salaries and bonuses of their executives.
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Blondes on War: The Screen Version of the CIA
Based on today's beautiful CIA women triumphing on TV and film, it seems that elite spies don’t inhabit the same universe with enlisted women who get raped just for being military.
