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Corporations Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit
Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don't care if they kill people — as long as ...[Read more]
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A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms
Alden Global Capital, a secretive private hedge fund is killing US local daily newspapers for profit. ...[Read more]
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Leaked Email Shows Verizon Pushing Employees to Oppose Corporate Tax Hike
The company sent an email to employees with a link to a tax-opposing form letter to send their elected representatives. ...[Read more]
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Merck Sells Federally Financed Covid Pill to U.S. for 40 Times What It Costs to Make
The Covid-19 treatment molnupiravir was developed using funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. ...[Read more]
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240,000 Apartments in Berlin Are Set to Be Seized From Corporate Landlords
This stunning victory for activists in Berlin could inspire similar actions for more democratic housing globally. ...[Read more]
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Big Pharma Greed ‘Literally Killing Americans,’ Sanders Says Outside Drug Lobby HQ
"How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker, before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?" ...[Read more]
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Bernie Sanders Blasts Conservative Democrats for Siding With Big Pharma
After the vote, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, came out swinging. Declaring that “the pharmaceutical industry owns the Republican Party and that no Republican voted for this bill,” Sanders went on to say that, � ...[Read more]
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House Dems Unveil Bill to Stop Wall Street From Destroying the Planet
"The Federal Reserve's role is not to surrender our planet to corporate polluters and shepherd our financial system to its destruction," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib. ...[Read more]
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Minnesota Law Enforcement Shared Intelligence on Protest Organizers With Pipeline Company
Police responsible for public safety surrounding the construction of an oil pipeline in Minnesota have repeatedly denied having a close relationship with Enbridge, the company behind the controversial energy project. According to records obtained by The I ...[Read more]
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Why is Bezos flying to space? Because billionaires think Earth is a sinking ship
It is not a coincidence that the richest people in America are funding a new space race. They are not motivated by a love of technology, or even a belief in the universe as a business opportunity. Let’s call this what it is: they are making plans to get ...[Read more]
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‘This Summit Was a Failure’: Biden-Merkel Meeting Ends With No Deal on Vaccine Patent Waiver
The brief bilateral summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel ended Thursday without any commitment from the European leader to drop her opposition to a temporary patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines, a result ...[Read more]
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