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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Fallout from "Untouchables": Another Wall Street Whistleblower Gets Reamed
Two very interesting and upsetting footnotes to the groundbreaking PBS documentary have emerged in the last weeks.
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Letter from Poland: Smart, Young, Unemployed - and Leaving
Young Polish people see the promise of social mobility through education as a lie, as more than half of them are now living with their parents.
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Saudi Arabia Jails Two Key Activists; New Riots Inflame Egypt
Founding members of the banned Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association were sentenced to 10 years in prison for "sedition" and giving inaccurate information to foreign media.
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Revealed: State Dept's Keystone Assessment Linked to Big Oil
The State Department's environmental impact statement on the Keystone XL pipeline was written by a private consulting firm paid by the pipeline’s owner, Transcanada, with links to ExxonMobil, BP and Koch Industries.
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Revealed: Pentagon's Link to Iraqi Torture Centers
General David Petraeus and 'dirty wars' veteran James Steele are behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse.
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Facing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Treaty
The 16th round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations is underway in Singapore this week, paving the way for a super-sized trade deal that benefits corporations, not people.
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Two Years On, Will the Lessons of Fukushima Go Unheeded?
Seventy percent of Japan's population wants a nuclear-free future but the government is ignoring their demands, even as experts give cleanup operations at Fukushima a centuries-long timetable.
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Anonymous Hacker to Spend Year in Jail Without Trial
The federal trial against alleged computer hacker Barrett Brown, 31, has been delayed by six months, meaning he'll wait in prison one full year before being tried.
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Sequester the Billionaires, Not the People
Where is the Occupy movement now that the depravity of the super rich is on full display?
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Europe's Lost Generation Finds a Voice in the Five Star Movement
M5S emerged as the strongest party in Italy's lower house of parliament, as a new citizens' movement expresses the mounting rage and anxiety spreading throughout crisis-stricken southern Europe.
