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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Ben Bernanke Admits Wall Street Execs Should Have Been Jailed
The former Fed chair says that, in addition to banks and corporations paying billions in fines for their illegal activities that triggered the economic meltdown and Great Recession, individuals should have also been held accountable.
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Buying Detroit: Why A Not-So-Public Auction Could Devastate City Homeowners
The largest known municipal foreclosure sale to date, the Detroit home sell-off could be a modern take on Manifest Destiny – luring would-be frontiersmen and speculators from across the world to try their hand at “buying Detroit.”
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How U.S. Corporations Avoided Paying 2014 Taxes, State By State, To a Tune of $50 Billion
The corporate world paid about half their required taxes, revealing the extent to which Americans are being deprived of revenue that should be going to education and infrastructure.
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The Billion-Dollar Question: When Will the U.S. Repair Its Damaged Democracy?
To watch American politics today is to watch money speaking – and the sums involved dwarf those in any other mature democracy.
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A Bank To Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank For International Settlements, Part II
The idea for an international bank had already been explored to some extent by people like the economist John Maynard Keynes. But the idea for the bank truly took off during the Young Conference in 1929, when the Allies were attempting to exact Germany’s reparations debts for WWI.
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Labor Unrest at California Ports Continues as More Subcontracted Workers Go On Strike
After years of tenacious effort, workers throughout the nation's largest port – spread across parts of both Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA – may soon share one important tool their predecessors once had: a union.
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In Rare Criminal Case, Coal Baron Faces Trial for Worker Deaths
Prosecutors charge that Don Blankenship lied to financial regulators and conspired to violate safety regulations before April 5, 2010, when a massive blast in the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia killed 29 men.
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Advocacy Support for Worker Cooperatives: Creating a Full-Fledged Support System
Only roughly half of the 50 states have worker co-op statutes on the books.
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Wars Profit the 1%, Part III: How Armed Conflict Drives Climate Change
Oil and the war business are as connected to each other as they are tied to capitalism – which is why, to tackle climate change, we need to dismantle both.
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Triumph Of Song: Syrian Musicians Who Fled Civil War Build A New Orchestra In Germany
Founded by musician-activists in Bremen, the orchestra composed of Syrian and local musicians came together to push back against the fearmongering and xenophobia that has arisen due to the refugee crisis in Europe.
