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Deep Questions Arise Over Portland's Corporate Water Takeover
Portland residents are up in arms about what they believe is a cronyism-driven plan to kill the elegant, gravity-fed, open water reservoir system that has reliably served their city safe, clean drinking water for more than 100 years.
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Greek Voters Look to Syriza Party to End Austerity and Reclaim Economic Sovereignty
The left-populist party headed by Alexis Tsipras is positioned to win Greece’s elections Sunday on a progressive platform to reverse austerity cuts imposed on the country over the past half decade.
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Stakes Heighten for Europe's Economic Future As Left-Leaning Greece Prepares to Elect New Regime
A small European nation is on the verge of standing up to financiers that are literally strangling its economic surplus and imposing draconian cuts in the same of austerity, as standards of living have plummeted in the past five years.
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Extremists On the Bench: Five Years After Citizens United, Our Rogue Supreme Court
Five "unelected, unaccountable kings in black robes" are systematically stripping Constitutional rights from real, live human beings and giving those rights to corporations and a very small group of plutocrats.
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Can Worker Cooperatives Alleviate Income Inequality?
The pay ratio between the highest- and lowest-paid worker-owners in cooperatives is between 3:1 and 5:1, compared with a ratio of roughly 600:1 in traditional corporations.
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Four States Weigh Legislation To Shut Off Resources to the NSA
Efforts to stop warrantless NSA spying are off to a fast start in the 2015 legislative session, as lawmakers in four states have already introduced bills banning material support or resources to any federal agency engaged in illegal spying.
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How Wall Street Drove the Oil Drilling Boom – That's Now Imploding
The Street hyped junk bonds, instigated mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged loans or new shares that it pushed into the hands of investors, who were bamboozled into thinking all risk had been removed from the oil equation.
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The Grand Strategy To Cast Off the Corporate State
This is a strategic memorandum to all movement organizers, social justice organizations, and free citizens disgusted with a corporate state that has systematically extracted our wealth and resources while giving back nothing in return.
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Why A Conviction in the Silk Road Trial Could "Put A Chill On the Internet"
The government aims to prove that Ross Ulbricht is the man behind the online persona Dread Pirate Roberts, the administrator of the Silk Road online black marketplace.
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In Latest Pipeline Disaster, 50,000 Gallons Of Crude Oil Spills Into Yellowstone River
Some residents are reportedly smelling and tasting oil in their drinking water, causing the EPA to test water samples and the city water plant to cease drawing water from the river.
