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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Rebel Cities 13: Porto Alegre In Brazil Shows How Participatory Budgeting Works
Citizen control of spending decisions means communities decide what their city does and does not do with public funds. For 30 years the process has worked in Brazil, and now it's spreading rapidly.
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Crimes Were Committed—Before, during and after the crisis, Financial Felonies abounded
Here's Why No One Went to Jail After the 2008 Financial Crisis. To many people, this is the single most frustrating post-crisis question.
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Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk
"Central banks buying stocks are effectively nationalizing U.S. corporations just to maintain the illusion that their 'recovery' plan is working."
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Government Can Spy On U.S. Journalists Using Invasive Foreign Intelligence Process
The U.S. government can monitor journalists under a foreign intelligence law that allows invasive spying and operates outside the traditional court system, according to newly released documents.
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Greece's Painful Decade: Out of the Bailout, But Not Out of the Woods
Poverty, privatizations, debt – in Greece, which just officially "ended" its bailout program, the silent majority can't let go their fear that this might just be the prelude to something worse yet to come.
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An Inside Account of the National Prisoners’ Strike
Wages for incarcerated workers are typically cents per hour, and several states—Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and South Carolina—use prisoner labor without paying them at all.
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On the 7th Anniversary: The Influence and Irony of Occupy Wall Street
How a movement that eschewed electoral politics is now showing up everywhere in the 2018 progressive resurgence.
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Can California Utilities Burn Down the State and Make the Public Pay For It?
Oil companies heat and dry up the planet, power companies start fires on the dried up land – and we pay the bills.
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To Stop the Next Financial Crisis, We Need Public Ownership of Banks—Now
When the next crisis hits, the public will once again be called upon to step in and bail out Wall Street. We need to start seriously preparing an alternative response: public banks.
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Red Alert: Fox News to Shape U.S. Cybersecurity Policy?
It’s not clear why 43-year-old Fox News general assignment reporter Lea Gabrielle would be the answer to the State Department's long-lasting cybersecurity problems.
