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Monitors to Phones to Meals: These 5 Corporations Are Quietly Making Billions Off Incarceration
Companies off the popular radar are benefiting from epidemic prison and jail building – some may even be even operating in your neighborhood.
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Leaked Files Reveal Global Bankster Scam. So Who's Getting Locked Up, and When?
After one of the largest leaks in the history of the banking industry, we know that HSBC bank helped hundreds of thousands of wealthy customers from across the globe avoid paying their taxes – now, what punishment will they face?
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Global Divestment Day - February 13th & 14th: Breaking Up With Fossil Fuels
Thousands are coming together around the world this weekend to move our public money out of fossil fuels and demand that institutions, and individuals, do what's necessary to save our climate and our future.
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Americans Are Enslaved By the Most Dependent Of Us All – the Wealthy
We have been programmed to believe that capital takes preeminence over humanity, that those with capital are entitled to be the arbiters of everyone’s success or failure – and that capital determines one's worth.
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New Illinois Governor Bans "Fair Share" Public Union Dues, Signaling Fresh Crackdown on Labor
Newly elected Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has banned public sector unions from collecting fees from non-member state employees – a move widely seen as the first stage in an assault on labor unions in the state.
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Why Public Banks Outperform Private Banks – From North Dakota to Switzerland
Despite the benefits they offer, publicly-owned banks could wind up getting sued for unfair competition under the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Apple Strikes $850 Million Biggest-Ever Solar Deal to Power New Campus
Apple has announced the largest commercial purchase of solar power ever.
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Anti-Tar Sands Activists Are Getting FBI Visits
Opponents of Canadian oil say they’ve been contacted, at home and through calls and texts, by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to the oil sands.
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California Foreclosed: Robert Somerton and the Battle with Bank of America
"Having a branch manager place me under citizens arrest for 'trespassing' is Bank of America's way of criminalizing a homeowner," said Robert Somerton, whose foreclosure sale is this Sunday, Feb. 15.
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Lynching In America: New Report Documents Nearly 4,000 Killings In Jim Crow South
Researchers at the Alabama-based Equal Jusitice Initiative reviewed historical archives, court records and African-American newspapers, and interviewed historians, lynching survivors and victims' descendants to calculate the figures.
