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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The 50 Companies That Rule the 50 States
This map, designed by telecommunications firm Broadview Networks, reveals the largest companies in each U.S. state based on revenue.
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General Electric Won't Pay Taxes – While Its CEO Blows $343,000 on Travel Expenses
The resurgence of elite travel perks signals that the decline of corporate jet spending following the financial crisis was just a brief moment of public shaming – and not a lasting shift in corporate culture.
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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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Nez Perce Leaders Arrested During 4-Day Idaho Blockade of Tar Sands Megaload
During dauntless and strategic blockades, the Nez Perce nation has been taking a stand for preserving pristine lands, their lands, from being violated and despoiled.
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NSA Leaks Show Us What New Fascism Looks Like
The power of truth-tellers like Edward Snowden is that they dispel a whole mythology carefully constructed by the corporate cinema, the corporate academy and the corporate media.
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Hedges: Rise Up Or Die
We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species.
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May Day: Income Disparity Grows As Corporations Spend Millions To Cover It Up
Corporations have spent more than $1 billion lobbying against the Dodd-Frank Act. Three years later, the Act has yet to be enforced — and lobbyists are still winning.
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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.
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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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Corporate Gold on the Fiscal Cliff
Big money buys big influence, which is why the financiers of Wall Street never truly experience regime change.
