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Xe is the Problem

Keeping the corporation formerly known as Blackwater out of Skunk Hollow.

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The Only Road Out of Crisis

Yes, it is socialism, but nationalize the banks already.

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The Best Investment Money Can Buy!

Feeling sorry for yourself? Struggling to get by? Wondering how you can get a bailout? Well, stop moping, because… more

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Let’s Expose the Poster Boys of Greed

Boy, have I learned my lesson, which I pass onto you. Do not, under any circumstances, call out any… more

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Give CEO Pay the Pink Slip

Capping outsized salaries is the first step toward creating responsible corporations.

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‘Zee’ End of Blackwater?

The troubled security firm gets a makeover.

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The Audacity of Reform

For some pundits, President Barack Obama's spectacular fundraising success during the 2008 general election has removed campaign finance reform… more

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Cafeteria Kickbacks

How food-service providers like Sodexo bilk millions from taxpayers.

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The EFCA Battle is Joined

Unions and allies are fighting the anti-Employee Free Choice Act “Meltdown Lobby” with an IRS complaint and grassroots campaigns.

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Our Town vs. Exxon

Marine biologist Riki Ott explains how Cordova, Alaska, rebounded 20 years after the oil spill.

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An Injury to Eid is an Injury to All

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote in The New Republic in September that "religious difference drives otherwise sane people crazy." In… more

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An Unfolding Crisis in the Wake of Mississippi ICE Raid

The workplace raid at the Howard Industries electronics plant in Laurel, Miss., was the largest in U.S. history

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Making Goliath Walk

"This is a David-and-Goliath confrontation, but we believe we'll have enough stones in the sling to knock this out."… more

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Ivory Tower Inc.

For those of us who have flirted with a life in academia, Marc Bousquet's How the University Works: Higher… more

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Bad Days for Newsrooms — and Democracy

The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of newsprint with the lightning speed… more

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Axle of Evil

Drastic wage cuts drive UAW members to picket American Axle & Manufacturing

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The Push to Privatize PEMEX

Halliburton is licking its chops at the prospect of Mexico's state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos going private. Petróleos Mexicanos, or PEMEX,… more

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Selling Out Grandma

In late 2007, the investment firm The Carlyle Group purchased one of the country's largest nursing home chains despite… more

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Inside the Beast:

Lifelines, Lifetimes and Timelines: Hoisting Ourselves up the Fossil Chain

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Acid-Mining Michigan

Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott plans to develop a nickel sulfide mine beneath the fragile Salmon Trout River in the state's Upper Peninsula

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Warning: Drug Ads Can Make You Sick

A $4.2 billion annual drug industry incessantly reinforces the medicalization of complaints through direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising

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Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex

Barely regulated banks are getting away with one usurious practice after the next: not only the subprime fiasco, but the extortionate service fees on your bank accounts and the escalating interest fees, late fees and truncated payment cycles on your credit cards

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No New Year Resolutions?

SEC proposes curbing shareholder power

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King of the Crop

Two years ago the federal government spent $9.4 billion to promote corn production, driving small farmers off their lands in Mexico, because they were unable to compete with U.S. imports

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Public Libraries For Profit

The trend of farming out public libraries to a private, profit-oriented business has raised concerns because libraries have long been considered democratic bodies built on the cornerstone of information diversity, transparency and intellectual freedom

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Saving a Public Park

Benton Harbor citizens fight to stop Whirlpool's luxury golf course

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Treaty of Detroit Repealed

The new contracts demonstrate that companies without unions, global labor markets and corporate power are dictating the future for American autoworkers--even for those who are in a union

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The New Road to Serfdom

Over the course of 500 pages in The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein documents the moments of chaos and disruption that allow a small coterie of experts to swoop in and administer what's invariably called "bitter medicine," "painful reforms" or "shock therapy"

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Pirates of Private Equity

An insanely lucrative investment strategy finally faces public scrutiny

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Snoops Get A Direct Line

That Verizon readily opened its phone logs to the feds should come as no surprise: The firm is a shining example of the revolving door between government and the telecom industry.

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Blackwater Nation

Contracting soldiers of fortune is only one example of our recent philosophy of government

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Merc is the New Crack

America's deadly dependence on private security contractors in Iraq

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Holy Toyland

The mega toy retailer, Wal-Mart- is now selling Biblical toys like the talking Jesus

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Offsets Aren’t Enough

Two environmental groups cave in to Big Coal in Texas.

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A Win in the Water War

Stockton, Calif., residents have stopped one multinational company from taking over their water system, but other localities remain threatened

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Sicko’s Critics and the Upside of Hitler

Critics of the movie are hooked on pharmaceutical company payouts and part of a system that is rotten to the marrow and should be put out of its misery

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Fighting Corporate Copper in Bougainville

Multinational polluter Rio Tinto sued under Alien Tort Claims Act for causing deaths of 10,000 Papua New Guineans

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Postal Rates = Free Press

Rate hike pushed by media conglomerate Time Warner threaten small and medium-circulation publications

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Doing It For Themselves

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers turns 'corporate social responsibility' from oxymoron into reality

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