Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
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Revealed: Federal Judges Guilty of Owning Stock in Corporations They Ruled On
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James Hill owned as much as $100,000 in Johnson & Johnson stock when he and two other judges ruled against the Gables family's appeal in a precedent-setting case.
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Beware "An Economy As Prone to Collapse As a Plate Spinning on a Stick"
Since 1980, inequality in the United States has risen enormously, yet household spending has increased to historic highs.
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Organized Labor, Public Banks and the Grassroots: Keys to a Worker-Owned Economy
Worker-owned cooperatives build economic democracy. But how do we build more worker-owned cooperatives?
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U.K. Teacher Strikes Reveal Public Sector Unrest As Trade Union Power Grows
A series of teacher strikes over pensions, pay and conditions in England and Wales are the most recent example of larger nationwide resistance to austerity and privatizations.
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Getting Money Out of Politics Is the Electoral Issue We Can – And Must – Win
Can the fight against the corrupting influence of money finally rally the people?
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Natural Gas CEO Pulls In $142 Million – Despite Company Never Turning A Profit
Cheniere Energy more than doubled its CEO's take-home pay, dwarfing the compensation of ExxonMobil and Chevron.
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Indigenous Activists Invoke the Sacred As Keystone Pipeline Standoff Continues
"We are living the nightmare. We live in the shadow of ConocoPhillips."
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Solidarity, Occupation, Action: Creating Jobs for the Quiet Revolution
Work is at the very core of human creative activity – which is why it's so important for us to occupy our work and contribute to the quiet revolution that is now occurring all around us.
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'The Next Revolution Will Be Rural'
Micah White, who helped envision Occupy Wall Street, is now a co-founder of the After Party, which seeks to create “mutual aid flash mobs” that improve communities from the grassroots up.
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Fracking in British Columbia Is Running Wild – Rivaling Tar Sands Emissions
With a current gas boom producing some 73 million tons of greenhouse gases a year, British Columbia’s natural gas emissions could nearly equal those of Alberta’s tar sands by as early as 2020.