Don't Trade Away Our Health for the Trans-Pacific Partnership

If big pharmaceutical companies hold sway, the TPP could block cheaper generic drugs from the market – causing big Pharma’s profits to rise at the expense of the health of patients and the budgets of consumers and governments.

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Standard & Poor Fined Paltry $1.4 Billion for Inflating Ratings On Subprime Mortgages

The ratings giant has settled with the Justice Department two years after it filed civil fraud charges accusing the company of giving overly rosy assessments on risky mortgage securities in the lead up to the financial crisis.

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Health Insurers Watch Profits Soar As They Dump Small Business Customers

Record stock prices have rewarded investors but are leaving mom-and-pop firms in the cold.

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Meet the Extreme Super Rich – These 80 People Own More Than the World’s Poorest 3.6 Billion

The reason the wealth of the richest has doubled since 2009 is because “it’s not a recession, it’s a robbery.”

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As Incoming Syriza Leaders Get Down To Work, Europe's Finance Ministers Hold Their Breath

The party is expected to unveil its policy plans in Parliament this week, while meetings get underway between Greece's new regime and the finance chiefs of Britain, France and Italy.

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Flush It! Fast Track for Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Must Be Stopped – Here's How We're Doing It

There are lots of ways to plug into the movement opposing Fast Track legislation and the biggest, most damaging corporate trade agreement in history.

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Pressured By Monsanto, Europe Backtracks On GMOs As Food Fight Shifts

Under planned legislation, expected to be finalized in March, E.U. member states would not be able to block the planting of GMOs through use of domestic health or environmental regulations.

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Middle Class Shrinks Further as More Fall Out Instead of Climbing Up

The middle class that President Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last week as the foundation of the American economy has been shrinking for almost half a century.

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London’s Supremacy Grows As Britain’s North-South Economic Divide Widens

As London and the towns and cities in its vicinity flourish with new jobs, talent and money, life to the North is being choked.

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The Invisible Man: Jeffrey Sterling, CIA Whistleblower

The mass media have suddenly discovered Sterling — after his conviction Monday afternoon as a CIA whistleblower.

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