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Major Banks Aid Behind the Scenes in Payday Loans Banned by States
Lenders are setting up online operations to offer their short-term loans with interest rates sometimes exceeding 500 percent.
Amazon’s Thuggish Security Force in Germany Shows How Corporations Get Their Way
So, Virginia, businesses can get too powerful and inflict violence to get its way. But youu2019ll never hear that from libertarians.
Food and Land at the Service of People: an Interview With Peter Rosset
Via Campesina and allied social movements have all gathered together under the banner of food sovereignty.
The Financial Instrument That Could Save the Economy – and Why It Hasn’t
QE doesn't put more money in circulation; it cleans up the banks' toxic balance sheets.
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California Teachers Divest Pension Fund From Assault Weapons
After Sandy Hook, a bold collective move to take the union's money out of guns.
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Christopher Dorner and the Exterminating Angels
If Christopher Dorner had been standing on a skyscraper ledge or holding Rupert Murdoch hostage, the world might have paid more attention to the injustices that he chronicles.
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In Conservatives’ Canada, It’s Not Easy Being Green
Canadau2019s police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal.
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Don’t Blink, or You’ll Miss Another Bailout
Many people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through …
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Coast Guard Finds Violations on Shell’s Arctic Drilling Rig
The Coast Guard found 16 violations on the Noble Discoverer, one of Shell's two drilling rigs for Alaska's Arctic waters.
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The Draft: A War-Killer
History shows that when we have a draft, our lawmakers are less enthusiastic to start wars, and more enthusiastic to end them quickly.