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When Predatory Equity Hit the Big Apple: How Private Equity Came to New York’s Rental Market
Things are heating up inside Wall Street's new rental empire.
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Make the Bankers Squeal
A financial transaction tax would help prevent investment banks from continuing to make the kind of risky bets that cause a financial crisis.
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In the US, Capital Is Still King
Paul Krugman: “One thing that strikes me is the remarkable extent to which American conservatism in 2014 seems to be about defending and promoting patrimonial capitalism.”
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Henry A. Giroux | Neoliberalism and the Machinery of Disposability
It is crucial that all Americans think critically and ethically about the coercive forces shaping US culture - and focus our energy on what can be done to change …
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Let’s Repudiate Reaganomics
The income gap in America has widened exponentially since Reagan took office and implemented the so-called “Reagan Tax Cuts.”
Monsanto You Make My Stinger Itch
Monsanto believes that Life on Earth is only a practice run for their product, Life on Earth Two, showing soon at a theater all around you.
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How the 99% Can Take Their Country Back from the 1%
The 1% cannot be defeated by competing on their terms, money. They can only be defeated by organizing cooperative, informed, enlightened, motivated action by all of the 99%.
“An Act of Conscience”: Teachers at New York’s Earth School Boycott Common Core Tests!
Teachers at a New York school boycott Common CORE standardized tests.
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Climate Change Is Real: Just Ask the World Bank
It's time to put an end to all of the pseudoscience and climate-change denial talk.
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Any Courtroom in China
Any courtroom in China or Iran could have been the scene: An 84-year-old Catholic nun in prison garb, chained hand-and-foot and surrounded by heavy Marshals, is shuffled jangling into …