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Poll: More Than Two-Thirds Of Americans Want To Raise Taxes on the Wealthy
Sixty-eight percent say wealthy households pay too little in federal taxes, 60 percent say the middle class pays too much, and more than half favor raising capital gains taxes on households of $500,000.
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Demanding Outright Ban, Broad Alliance In Scotland Escalates Anti-Fracking Movement
Following last month's decision to place a moratorium on fracking, widespread Scottish opposition is growing to other unconventional methods of fuel extraction.
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Cheaper, Faster, Better: The Time for Postal Banking Is Now
Postal banking represents a national, nonprofit public option to the private, for-profit banking system – and a solution for the one in four Americans who are underbanked.
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UK Green Party Accused Of Abandoning the Left As Elections Near
An acclaimed British columnist recently reproached the Green Party for not being fundamentally Left – raising the question of whether the Greens, who are now surging in popularity, are at the same time losing their socialist roots.
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Top U.S. Companies Ditched A.L.E.C. – Now Time For Politicians to Do the Same
Corporate America has turned against the conservative group's radical agenda of denying climate change, defunding public services and curtailing workers' rights – so what's preventing our representatives from following suit?
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How Public Banking is Winning the West
From Washington and Colorado to Arizona and New Mexico, the movement to create city and regional public banks is heating up.
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Americans Are Enslaved By the Most Dependent Of Us All – the Wealthy
We have been programmed to believe that capital takes preeminence over humanity, that those with capital are entitled to be the arbiters of everyone’s success or failure – and that capital determines one's worth.
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Why Public Banks Outperform Private Banks – From North Dakota to Switzerland
Despite the benefits they offer, publicly-owned banks could wind up getting sued for unfair competition under the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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California Foreclosed: Robert Somerton and the Battle with Bank of America
"Having a branch manager place me under citizens arrest for 'trespassing' is Bank of America's way of criminalizing a homeowner," said Robert Somerton, whose foreclosure sale is this Sunday, Feb. 15.
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Occupy the Green Party: Why Support for Britain's Political Left Is Surging
Why are people finally sitting up and taking notice of the Greens? Occupy.com spoke to new party members and key party figures.