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The Fiscal Cliff Deal is Wall Street’s Latest Scam
If you liked toxic investments and the 2008 financial crisis, you’ll love Wall Street's deficit deal.
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Goldman Sachs' Global Coup D'etat
The thief of thieves on Wall Street is executing a global coup d'etat - with no one there to stop it.
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Charges Dropped Against Stop-and-Frisk Activists
The Harlem couple who had their faces and home address displayed on "wanted posters" after being branded "professional agitators" by the NYPD for filming police stop-and-frisks have been acquitted or had charges against them dropped.
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The U.S. Is Holding Up Climate Change Progress
The United States, which remains the greatest polluter in world history, stands as one of the biggest impediments to a global program to stem climate change.
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The Surveillance State Infiltrates High School
A Texas student believes her school's chipped ID cards are a violation of her civil liberties. She's right.
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ALEC's War on Renewables
ALEC and the Heartland Institute are crafting laws designed to repeal state-designated renewable energy targets.
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Portuguese Joins Europe's Austerity Fight
Portugal was seen as a role model in the grinding euro zone crisis - until austerity triggered a recession.
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Delinquency Rate on Student Loans Tops Credit Cards
There's more troubling news about student loans, the highest source of non-mortgage debt.
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Tar Sands Blockaders Lock Themselves to Trucks Outside Valero's Houston Refinery
Activists in Houston began a sustained hunger strike on Thursday, demanding that energy giant Valero divest from the Keystone XL Pipeline project.
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NYC Fast Food Workers Strike, Attempt to Unionize
Fast-food workers at several restaurants in New York walked off the job Thursday, firing the first salvo in the biggest effort to unionize fast-food workers ever undertaken in the United States.
