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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Exposed: State Dept.'s Keystone XL Contractor Blatantly Lied About Ties to Big Oil
A major research dossier unfurled this week shows the ERM Group openly lied about its connections to Big Oil, tar sands and TransCanada.
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Occupy Museums Calls on Deans Nationwide to Support DebtFair For Students
Message to art school deans: "Begin a process of transparency: educate your students about the realities of debt, and disclose the relationships between your board members and predatory lenders."
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In Parched Northwestern India, One Man's Mission to Conserve Sacred Water
An astrologer and activist for water conservation in Rajasthan, a state located in the northwest of India, has turned the spiritual practice of offering water and milk in temples into a unique way of water conservation.
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Act Before the Bail-In: Now Is the Moment to Seize Public Banking
As an individual or as a public official, if you have money in one of the big banks, you have essentially given your money to that gambler and now you are a creditor to the gambler.
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Decline and Fall: How American Society Unravelled
Thirty years ago, the old deal that held U.S. society together started to unwind, with social cohesion sacrificed to greed. Was it an inevitable process – or was it engineered by self-interested elites?
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Revealed: Global Anti-Money Laundering Campaign Is Failing Through Weak Financial Oversight
After nearly 25 year of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement an anti-money laundering regime that works.
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In Brazil Protests, People Triumphed In the Streets But New Uncertainties Emerged
In response to the abusive fare increases, the recent protests in Brazil make way, once again, for direct action tactics: taking the struggle out into the streets to effectively confront private interests and recent state politics.
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Doubling Student Interest Rates Will Turn A Generation Against Congress
The real story is about the slow dismantling of affordable education — one of the last means of upward mobility in America — and the exclusion of a generation from the "American Dream."
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Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough — We Need the Power to Stop It
At the core of the surveillance state is the hollowness of its democratic pretenses. Only with authentic democracy can we save ourselves from devastating evisceration of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
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Global Power Project, Part 5: Banking on Influence With Goldman Sachs
We examined a total of 83 individuals at Goldman Sachs, including executives, members of the board of directors and several advisory boards, to uncover their connections within some of the world's powerful institutions.
