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Ellen Brown: The Leveraged Buyout of America
Giant banks are buying up our country’s infrastructure, the power and supply chains that are vital to the economy. Aren’t there rules against that?
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We’re All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
Five years after the Lehman Brothers collapse, banking lobbyists have blocked essential reforms at every turn.
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Al Jazeera America: A Radical Voice or Big Media Pawn?
Will the fledgling media outlet tackle the major issues facing Americans that Big Media won’t touch?
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Global Unrest Defines a Fearless Summer of Protest
The summer of 2013 has seen some of the largest, most vocal mass protests around the world since 2011, as people people exercised power through occupations, strikes and blockades from Frankfurt to Istanbul, and Rio to Sanford, Florida.
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Missouri Gets Sued for Defying Voters on Renewable Energy Law
A lawsuit filed Monday by the Great Rivers Environmental Law Center contends that Missouri legislators removed two important paragraphs from the state's 2008 energy law, allowing utilities to do an end run around new renewables investing.
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History of Oil Spills Plagues Future of Keystone XL Pipeline
Poor construction practices and a willful ignorance of engineering codes and regulations make oil pipeline leaks more likely.
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What Are the U.S. And Russia Really Fighting Over? Pipelines!
Wrapped up in the excitement of Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, many have missed the “Great Game” geopolitical standoff between the U.S. and Russia, who are vying over the future global control of natural gas.
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Their Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
Thousands of landowners are receiving far less royalties than they expected from the sale of gas or oil produced on their property while gas companies get rich.
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Graeber: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
Huge swaths of people spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound, yet no one talks about it.
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Not Too Big To Jail: Why Eliot Spitzer Is Wall Street's Worst Nightmare
The former New York Governor, now running for New York City comptroller, has the sort of creative thinking needed if we the people are to take back our power from Wall Street and the corporatocracy.