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People Mobilize Against Corporate Water Grabs From New Jersey to Detroit to Portland
New Jersey became the latest state to subvert democracy by authorizing the fast-track sale or lease of water utilities without public notice, comment or approval.
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Solutions on Track: Electrified Rail And Our Clean Transport Future
Electrified rail powered by renewables is a low-carbon solution for 21st century freight mobility – and Solutionary Rail provides a framework to make it a reality.
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UK Green Party Accused Of Abandoning the Left As Elections Near
An acclaimed British columnist recently reproached the Green Party for not being fundamentally Left – raising the question of whether the Greens, who are now surging in popularity, are at the same time losing their socialist roots.
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Shocked By Student's Killing, Thousands March In Turkey To End Violence Against Women
The Feb. 11 murder of 20-year-old Ozgecan Aslan, who resisted a rape attempt, has erased longstanding taboos and empowered women to confront endemic violence against women in Turkish society.
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Angry Romanians, An Unhinged Swiss Franc, and the Growing Call for Debt Forgiveness
The financial crisis that has engulfed us? That is the real WWIII.
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Two Members of Pussy Riot Release First English Single, "I Can't Breathe"
The "industrial ballad" came out of the group's involvement in New York City street protests against police brutality, but also takes aim at Putin's repressive regime in Russia.
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Top U.S. Companies Ditched A.L.E.C. – Now Time For Politicians to Do the Same
Corporate America has turned against the conservative group's radical agenda of denying climate change, defunding public services and curtailing workers' rights – so what's preventing our representatives from following suit?
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Texas Judge Who Blocked Obama Immigration Action Had Criticized "Criminal Conspiracy" Policy
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen once accused the president's administration of participating in criminal conspiracies to smuggle children into the U.S. by helping reunite them with parents who live here illegally.
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Princes of the Yen: How Japan's Central Bankers Engineered their Country's Boom and Bust
The documentary shows how the Japanese boom and bust of the 1980s and 90s was deliberately orchestrated and prolonged by actors inside the Bank of Japan to transform the country's economic, political and social system.
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Detroit Tax Foreclosure Is Crushing Families and Robbing County Funds
A massive tidal wave of tax foreclosures is building in Detroit, where nearly 100,000 residents face foreclosure and the resale of their homes this year.
