The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Trade Groups to Top Corporations: Resist Political Disclosure
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which spent $35 million on the 2014 midterm elections, "has a deep investment in secrecy," says Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability.
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Corporate Lobbying Costs Hit $380 Million In 9 Months Pushing Pacific Trade Deal
Washington lobbying by companies and groups involved in global trade boomed in the past nine months.
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Corporations Renouncing U.S. "Citizenship" Bilk Billions from Federal Revenue
So far this year, a dozen U.S. companies including well-known brands like Medtronic and Chiquita have merged with foreign firms, shifting their headquarters offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.
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CEOs Against Grandmas: How an Unpatriotic Corporate Elite Are Pillaging Retirees
The loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security — yet are part of austerity armies determined to make older people pay.
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Global Power Project, Part 10: TransCanada Corporation, Kings of the Keystone Pipeline
The government of Canada has, for years, been writing laws and implementing major policies at the direct suggestion of the oil industry — most recently TransCanada, which is seeking a green light to complete the Keystone XL.
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U.S. Executive Pay Soars As "The Outrageous Has Become the Everyday"
According to figures released last week, 38% of the top-paid CEOs of U.S. companies over the past two decades were fired or headed companies that were either bailed out by taxpayers or forced to pay significant fraud-related fines.
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Global Power Project, Part 6: Banking on Influence With Bank of America
Bank of America and others continue to get "backdoor bailouts" through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which acts as a legal guarantor and protector of the Wall Street chain gang of criminal conglomerates.
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Global Power Project, Part 2: Identifying the Institutions of Control
From Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission to the Council on Foreign Relations, International Chamber of Commerce and Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie foundations, here are the institutions that shaped our current power structure.
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The CISPA Assault: Threatening Americans' Internet Privacy and Basic Rights
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has passed in the House with amendments. It carves a loophole in all known privacy laws and grants legal immunity for companies to share your private information.
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10 Corporate Tax Dodgers and Their Tax Loopholes
A new report looks at 10 U.S. corporations that used an array of tax loopholes and corporate subsidies to slash their tax bills.
