Ideological rigidity is not only keeping us from making inroads with mainstream society and growing our numbers—but effectively preventing us from accomplishing any actual policy goals.
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JPMorgan Chase Fined Historic $13 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
The settlement between America's largest bank and the Department of Justice was greater than the anticipated $11 billion, and will not release the bank from facing further criminal liability charges for its role in helping bring down the US economy.
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"Ag-Gag" Laws Criminalize Whistleblowers Who Expose Factory Farm Abuse
"Ag-gag” laws seek to silence people who reveal what goes on behind factory farm closed doors, labeling them "eco-terrorists."
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Global Power Project: Connecting Josef Ackermann, the Institute of International Finance and the Euro Debt Crisis
When the European debt crisis hit headlines in 2010, the Institute of International Finance was again on the scene and playing a major part, like it did during the 1980s debt crisis. At the center this time was the CEO of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann.
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Low Fast Food Wages Cost Taxpayers $7 Billion Per Year
Yet another corporation shifts the costs of business to taxpayers.
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Exposed: Major U.K. Financier and Conservative Donor Guilty of LIBOR Rigging
Financial authorities in Britain have uncovered that a major financial supporter of the U.K. government, ICAP's CEO Michael Spencer, is closely tied to the LIBOR rate rigging scandal affecting some $360 trillion worldwide.
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Hedges: The Folly of Empire
The last days of empire are carnivals of folly. The politicians and court propagandists, hired to be the public faces on the sinking ship, mask the real work of the crew, which is systematically robbing the passengers as the vessel goes down.
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How Mega-Corporations Like Nestle Threaten Colombia’s Coffee Farmers
Nestlé has a huge presence in Colombia. But it has no fair trade policy to ensure its coffee producers are paid a living wage.
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Even McCutcheon Supreme Court Case Won't Alter Money's Influence on Politics
If the court were to axe the current overall contribution limits posed in McCutcheon v. FEC, some predict that fewer than 500 people could fund all of electoral politics, creating a government run of, by and for those 500 people.
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Robert Reich on the Shutdown: "You Can't Negotiate with Extortionists"
Members of the Tea Party hate government viscerally. They say we ought to shrink government down to the size that it can drown in a bathtub. They're not in Washington to govern; they're in Washington to tear it down.
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Nearly 1 Million Gallons of Fracked Oil Spilled in North Dakota
Over 20,000 barrels of oil fracked from the Bakken Shale spilled from a pipeline in North Dakota in September, but the agency tasked with responding to chemical and oil spills did not make the report available until last week.