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We Are All Connected: Hearing The Message of Indigenous Tribes
In the current United States, from the Indigenous point of view, it is as though a chief can have 99 buffalo for himself while he looks down at the community trying to live on one buffalo. This is a model for community or Tribal extinction.
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Monsanto and Big Food Pull Out the Big Guns, Challenging Washington's GMO Labeling Law
As the Washington State I-522 campaign to label genetically modified organisms in food products is gaining steam, Big Ag and Biotech are taking the battle for consumers' hearts and minds to the next level.
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Money In Politics: Democratic Super PACs Are Crushing Conservatives in 2013
Liberal-aligned super PACs raised more than $40 million in the first half of 2013 — double the amount raised by conservative super PACs.
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After Crashing Bear Stearns, Mortgage Executives Have Plum Jobs on Wall Street
The executives in charge of mortgage securities at the failed investment house are now at JPMorgan, Goldman and Bank of America.
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Arctic Researcher: Methane Releases From Permafrost Signal "Urgent and Imminent" Climate Crisis
The rapid melting of the Siberian and Canadian-Alaskan permafrost means millions, if not billions of new methane tons will be released into the atmosphere, initiating an uncontrolled feedback mechanism.
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The August 24 March on Washington: Why We Need a New Civil Rights and Labor Movement
Even with the greatest employment crisis since the 1930s and an unemployment rate for blacks that remains double that of whites, there is no talk of legislation for a federal jobs program to be paid for by taxing the rich.
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Federal Government Sues Bank of America Over $850 Million Investor Fraud
The U.S. is suing the Bank of America for investor fraud over the sale of $850 million worth of residential mortgage-backed securities.
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The Detroit Bail-In Template: Fleecing Pensioners to Save the Banks
The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template originated by the G20’s Financial Stability Board in 2011.
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Revolving Door: Koch and Halliburton Are Lobbying Hard to Block a Carbon Tax
Despite an array of conservative economists and former Republican lawmakers, Koch and Halliburton lobbyists are funding the campaign against it.
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Nation On Fire: Climate Change And The Burning Of America
Huge, explosive fires are becoming commonplace because climate change is setting the stage with higher temperatures, widespread drought, earlier snowmelt and spring vegetation growth.
