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Why Toyota Is Settling Its Sudden-Acceleration Cases
The Department of Justice has reached a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota, ending a criminal investigation. But the mainstream media has not reported the evidence now available showing that …
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Boosting the Minimum Wage to $10.10 an Hour Should Be a No-Brainer
Public support for a minimum wage hike is overwhelming, but lobbying by powerful corporations is tripping it up in Congress.
Corporate Clout Chips Away at Organic Standards
Without any input from the public, the USDA changed the way the National Organic Standards Board decides which non-organic materials are allowed in certified organic.
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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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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 …
The Oligarchy Doesn’t Care About Democracy, Just Rigged Markets
Nomi Prins writes a painstakingly researched history of the financial industry's collusion with the White House to create a self-serving United States financial policy.
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Mike Lofgren | Can’t We Just Say the Roberts Court Is Corrupt?
John Roberts knows he was appointed to be a Supreme Court justice for one reason: to decide relevant cases on behalf of corporate interests, which he has done with …
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Defining the Real Terrorism
A new definition of terrorism - one that better addresses the crimes of these times - is required.
Taking on Big Business Wage Theft
Lawsuits show that the fight against wage theft is heating up, but workers shouldn't have to sue their employers to get paid what they're owed.
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Occupy Sandy and the Future of Socialism
The impromptu relief efforts in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, as in every crisis, quashed the notions that humans are inherently selfish.