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John Nichols and Robert McChesney: Progressives Ask for Too Little, Not Too Much in Age of Plutocratic Rule
Truthout speaks with John Nichols and Robert McChesney about their new book, “Dollarocracy.”
Can the Federal Election Commission Be Saved?
The FEC is in the news with reports that Republicans are trying to force changes that would neutralize it even further.
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Current Political System Incapable of Meeting Social, Economic, Environmental Challenges
A long and slow-developing path forward might be called “evolutionary reconstruction.”
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Third Circuit Court of Appeals Has Ruled on a New Aspect of Corporate Personhood, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on a new aspect of corporate personhood u2013 a corporation's right to the free exercise …
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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.