Occupy Satire: American Success Stories 2018

Check out these uplifting tales in an age of diminished expectations.

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Becoming Serfs

We live in a new feudalism. We have been stripped of political power. Workers are trapped in menial jobs, forced into crippling debt and paid stagnant or declining wages. Where will this end?

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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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