There are multiple similarities between Trump and the British monarch when looking at the 27 grievances the framers outlined in their 1776 declaration.
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Monsanto Giving Cash to Farmers Who Use Controversial Pesticide
Looks like Monsanto really wants farmers to use XtendiMax. The agribusiness giant is offering a cash incentive to farmers to apply a controversial pesticide linked to 3.1 million acres of crop damage in nearly two dozen heartland states.
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Brexit Rebellion Deepens After a Chaotic Year of Failed Negotiation
In an awkward and disconcerting backlash last month, the Democratic Unionist Party told Downing Street that any Brexit agreement that gave Northern Ireland a separate trade regime from the rest of Britain would endanger the U.K. government.
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Private Prison Investors Set for Giant Windfall from Trump Tax Bill
Prison firms that restructured as real estate investment trusts see a substantial tax cut – more good news for those who benefit from increased incarceration.
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2018 World Inequality Report Shows An Economic Ship Blown Way Off Course
Should the U.S. continue to institute tax policies like the new GOP plan, the gap between the rich and the poor will keep widening until it reaches a breaking point.
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More Protesters Killed In Iran as Rouhani's Plea Fails to Dampen Unrest
At least 12 people have died in clashes around the country and a police officer was reportedly shot dead in the city of Najafabad.
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Preparing for the Great Transformation
The crises we face have been building for decades. They are reaching a point of extremism that will create an even greater response by people. What that response is, where it goes and what it accomplishes are up to all of us to determine.
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EPA Allowing Widespread Use of Unapproved Pesticides
The EPA has granted 78 "emergency" exceptions over the past six years for a well-known, bee-killing pesticide called sulfoxaflor, allowing its use on more than 17.5 million acres of U.S. farmland.
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10 Amazing Social Movement Struggles in 2017 that Give Us Reason To Hope
From a mining ban in El Salvador and a new law targeting transnational corporations in France, to the popular resistance fighting the Trump agenda in the U.S. and the global rollback of failed privatization schemes, progress is afoot.
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This Holiday, Striking Railworkers In Britain Demand More Drivers on Trains
Railway strikes are at the forefront of industrial action in the U.K. today, with overground train drivers embroiled in a long-running dispute over the role, and safety, of Driver-Only Operation (DOO) on their trains.
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U.K. Is on Course For the Longest Fall in Living Standards Since Records Began
Even after Britain's “worst decade for productivity growth since 1812 – when Napoleon was busy invading Russia,” the age of austerity is far from over – and the inequality gap in the world’s sixth richest country is only widening.
