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 2014 Election Never Asked What Happened to The Crimes Of Wall Street Bankers
Politicians, the products of heavy lobbying by corporations, speak from their respective party positions and the one thing they all to agree on is this: leave the banks and their dirty deeds untouched.
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Are You Kidding – Chevron’s Lobbyist Now Runs the Congressional Science Committee?
As CEO of Dow Lohnes Government Strategies, a lobbying firm retained by Chevron to influence Congress, Stephen Sayle was paid $500,000 before taking his current gig atop the House Science Committee.
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Revolving Door: Multi-Millionaire Big Oil Lobbyist Now Running for Virginia Senate
Ed Gillespie, a former White House communications director under George W. Bush, made $3 million in the past year from his consulting firm representing giant lobbying interests like the American Petroleum Institute.
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Why the Comcast Merger With Time Warner Must Be Stopped
Comcast spent $18.8 million on lobbying last year – among the top for U.S. corporations – and operates a giant revolving door with Washington, making it an already too-powerful communications giant.
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Victory in Vermont Pushes Monsanto and Big Foods on the GMO Defensive
The Vermont Senate passed a bill to require labeling on all GMO foods sold in the state – signaling a wave of nationwide victories against the Gene Giants may be underway.
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Bechtel Corporation Hired U.S. Ambassador Who Lobbied $1B Kosovo Road Project
Christopher Dell pushed through a deal for Bechtel Corporation, America's largest engineering and construction firm, to build the costly "Patriotic Highway" to Albania – then was hired by the firm.
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The Bailout Next Time: Making the Bankers Squeal
During the financial crisis, the losses were so severe that every major investment bank on Wall Street should have collapsed. Will we learn from the corporate-government heist that enabled them to survive?
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Keystone XL Protests Ignite in 200 Cities, Monday (02/03/2014)
Responding to the State Department’s erroneous, industry-paid report issued Friday on the climate impacts of the tar sands pipeline, activists are mobilizing hundreds of direct actions and marches nationwide to demand an end to Keystone.
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Political Corruption, Capitalism and the Urgency for System Change
To reduce corruption from its current high levels requires something more than additional laws, commissions, invocations of morality, regulations and so on. It requires basic, structural economic change.
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Global Power Project: Central Bankers and the Institute of International Finance, Part 3
The relationship between the powerfully connected Institute of International Finance and global central bankers goes well beyond the timid attempts at “regulation” on the part of global banks, as this third segment in the IFF series reveals.
