This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Act Out! [159] - How To Build a Direct Democracy + The Colonial Death Motto of Our Healthcare System
A grotesque and yet not altogether surprising admission from our for-profit-healthcare system. And the Trump administration has a new idea on how to further oppress and torture indigenous peoples.
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As Trump Comes Into Focus, So Do Our Tasks
The potential for people working together in solidarity will grow and the long-term impact of the Trump era could be a mass movement that will change the political culture in the United States.
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New Report Exposes World of Offshore Corporate Tax Avoidance
Fortune 500 companies are now holding $2.5 trillion in earnings offshore, which allows them to avoid an estimated $718 billion in taxes.
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In Praise of Class Traitors: Former Goldman Exec Runs for N.J. Governor on Public Banking Platform
Days after Phil Murphy’s call for a publicly-owned Bank of New Jersey sent shockwaves across state and national media, the proposal received an unexpected favor: Governor Chris Christie attacked it.
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Fascism Revisited, Part II: The Cosy Relationship with Capitalists Continues
We would not have the rabidly free market, neoliberal – and increasingly fascist-leaning – system we have today if not for capitalists who have invested in small far-right groups from the 1930s onwards.
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Ding-Dong! Goldman Sachs Just Ate Denmark For Breakfast
Goldman Sachs bought a large portion of Dong Energy – the national energy company of Denmark that launched on the Nasdaq stock exchange last week – and raked in a quick $1.7 billion in profit, money that rightfully belongs to the Danes.
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Goldman Sachs to Pay $5 Billion for Role in the 2008 Financial Crisis
Announced by the U.S. Justice Department, it's only the latest multibillion-dollar civil settlement reached with a major bank over the economic meltdown in which millions of Americans lost their homes to foreclosure.
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Why Wall Street Won the First Round and How We Might Win the Next
Will it take a coming crisis to finally achieve what the reaction of the 2008 financial crisis failed to do – place finance capital under restraints? Iceland may have been the exception to the rule, but it shows that democratic control of the banks is possible.
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Two Big Reasons Hillary Clinton Isn’t Taking Elizabeth Warren’s Revolving-Door Dare
Cozy with Wall Street, Hillary hasn't endorsed the Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act prohibiting government officials from accepting “golden parachutes” from their former employers for entering public service.
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How Goldman Sachs Profited from the Greek Debt Crisis
CEO Lloyd Blankfein and his Goldman team helped Greece hide the true extent of its debt – and in the process almost doubled it.
