Truthout
Citizens United
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Dystopian Novel, The Water Thief, Imagines the Corporate-Controlled Future of America
Nicholas Soutter's novel may take place in the future, but it's clearly a future today's society created, with corporations ruling all and citizens spied on all day, every day.
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Citizens Without Obligations?
If American corporations are, as the Supreme Court ruled in 2010, citizens entitled to free speech and other rights from the nation, it is unclear what corresponding obligations to …
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Consumer Groups, Shareholders Call for Google to Leave US Chamber of Commerce, Disclose Political Spending
Outside spending in elections quadrupled between 2010 and 2012 after the Citizens United ruling cleared the way for corporations to privately donate unlimited sums to political candidates.
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War on Democracy in Wisconsin: Bill Would Enact Voter ID, End Disclosure, Limit Early Voting and Expand Lobbyist Influence
A Wisconsin legislator has managed to bundle nearly all of the excesses associated with dirty elections into a single bill that good government advocates are describing as a 'sweeping …
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Collateral Consequences Weighed for Corporations, Not for Individuals
The vast majority of major corporate criminals are granted deferred and non prosecution agreements.
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Ambiguity in Tax Rules and Disintegration of Election Law May Have Led to IRS Tea Party Mess
This is not the first time the IRS has been accused of politically-motivated enforcement, and Congressional hearings on the issue are justified.
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A House Divided: This Time, Between the People and the Corporations
Bryan Henry: Both conservatives and liberals need to rally around the American family to keep the corporate landlords at bay.
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Pennsylvania Court Deals Blow to Secrecy-Obsessed Fracking Industry
u201cIn the absence of state law, business entities are nothing.u201d
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Hope, Love and Strategy in the Time of the Zombie Apocalypse
Labor and community organizer Stephen Lerner argues that love really is part of the answer to resisting the oncoming apocalypse.
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This Is What Happens When Congress Is for Sale
Thom Hartmann: Now is the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and end the terrifying reign of money in politics.