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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India's New Video Journalists: Empowering Communities and Reshaping Media
Savitha Rath isn’t the usual breed of journalist found in India. She has no college education nor does she speak English. But now she and others like her are documenting important community issues -- and the country is taking notice.
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Be The Change: Why Myanmar's Subversive Band "Side Effect" Is Inspiring Freedom
The indie band Side Effect sings about freedom and other politically controversial themes – a sign of the changing times in Myanmar, formerly one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships.
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Revealed: How Cities Are Seizing Underwater Mortgages Through Eminent Domain
Officials have discovered that they can use their eminent domain power to buy underwater mortgages at their current market value and resell them to homeowners at reduced price and mortgage payments.
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Tens of Thousands of Greeks Retake the Streets In General Strike Over Job Cuts
Demonstrators poured into Athens' central Syntagma Square on Tuesday as unions, protesting controversial plans to slash 25,000 public sector jobs, brought the country to a standstill in a fourth general strike this year.
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Pipeline Scandal Deepens: Obama Attorney's Law Firm Works for TransCanada
A new investigation reveals that Robert Bauer, former White House Counsel and President Obama’s personal attorney, works at a corporate law firm representing TransCanada — the company that hopes to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Global Power Project, Part 6: Banking on Influence With Bank of America
Bank of America and others continue to get "backdoor bailouts" through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which acts as a legal guarantor and protector of the Wall Street chain gang of criminal conglomerates.
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Justice Denied: Is Trayvon Martin Post-Racial America's Emmett Till?
Today, we all know that Emmett Till’s 1955 murder and the denial of justice to him and his family was the product of racism. As Trayvon Martin’s killing illustrates, colorblindness hasn’t brought us closer to a place where color no longer matters.
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The Democracy Convention: Building A New Economy and Our Communities
This August in Madison, Wis., the second national Democracy Convention will focus on reshaping the economy in the interests of the majority, and pushing back against Wall Street power.
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Ohio's Dirty Secret: Residents Balk At Becoming Oil Industry’s Waste Dump
Ohio is home to 190,000 of the 680,000 fracking fluid disposal wells nationwide. Last year, more than 14 million barrels of the toxic waste was injected into the ground in Ohio.
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Italy Moves to Ban Monsanto's GM Maize, With 80% Public Support
Citing environmental concerns, Italy's Agriculture Ministry announced Friday a decree banning the cultivation of Monsanto's MON810 maize, the only genetically modified crop grown commercially in Europe.
