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Sweatshops on Wheels: This is What Privatizing Public Transit Looks Like
The deterioration of the nation’s public transportation, like its health care, education, social services, public utilities, bridges and roads, is part of the relentless seizing and harvesting of public resources and programs by corporations.
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Opposition Grows Fierce to Austerity Cuts in Portland
The Portland government's narrowly constructed and carefully controlled austerity narrative, meant to divide and weaken the city
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Revealed: ACLU Obtains IRS Email Privacy Memos
Newly released documents show that in recent years, the Internal Revenue Service has claimed American Internet users "do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy" when it comes to their emails being snooped on.
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One Multi-Millionaire is Turning North Carolina into Tea Party Utopia
With no remaining checks to Republican rule in North Carolina, the state has now become a haven for some of the most ideological — and ill-considered — tea party fantasies dressed up as legislation.
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In Districts With Widest Gender Wage Gaps, Congressmen Oppose Fair Pay Laws
Four out of five of the U.S. congressional districts with the widest gender-based wage gaps are represented by congressmen who oppose equal pay laws.
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Everything We Know About What’s Happened Under Sequestration
Austerity, American style...
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Farmers-Consumers vs. Monsanto: Many Davids Can Topple One Goliath
Global resistance to Monsanto is growing as people rise up to reclaim food and seed sovereignty.
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E.U. Climate Commissioner: "Stop Paying the Polluters"
Harnessing the existing broad consensus against fossil-fuel subsidies is possible even in the absence of a legal agreement.
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"Look away, America!": The Corporate Bait and Switch
The rich count on Americans being so distracted that they don’t focus on record corporate profits and offshore accounts.
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Google Takes on Rare Fight Against National Security Letters
Google has filed a rare petition to challenge an ultra-secret national security letter issued by the government to obtain private data about one or more of its users.