Politics - Part 43
Report by researchers from Princeton and Northwestern universities suggests that US political system serves special interest organisations, instead of voters ...[Read more]
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Executives at General Motors have answered the age-old question of how much is a life worth. A life is worth 57 cents. ...[Read more]
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The labyrinthian design of the political network backed by the Koch brothers and their fellow conservative donors serves several purposes, but one of the biggest is to ensure the privacy of its financial backers. As we detailed last month, the money flows ...[Read more]
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In December, I wrote to the heads of six of the country's biggest financial institutions with a simple request: that they voluntarily disclose the financial contributions their companies make to think tanks. This disclosure would help make sure shareholde ...[Read more]
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The American left must break out of its downward spiral by building politically independent social movements, says Patrick Barrett, instead of advancing the professional careers of individual politicians - even Bernie Sanders. ...[Read more]
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Irish MP Joe Higgins has rounded on Western nations for supporting âxenophobic, semi-fascistâ elements within the Kievâs new government. He accused the EU of using hardline groups such as the Right Sector to push a neoliberal agenda in Ukra ...[Read more]
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6 corporations that control 90% of the media in America - illusion of free press ...[Read more]
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In a Democracy Now! exclusive, one of the nation’s most prolific transparency activists, Ryan Shapiro, reveals he is suing the NSA, FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency in an attempt to force them to open their records on one of the country’s greatest ...[Read more]
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In his latest op-ed penned to tackle the crisis in Ukraine, former congressman Ron Paul writes that the United States is destroying democracy overseas by spending billions of dollars to influence change abroad.
The staunch anti-interventionist and long ...[Read more]
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With public dollars, kids are being taught that the Great Depression was a hoax and that theories of evolution caused the Holocaust.
Where do these religious voucher schools get their so-called “facts”? One place is Christian publisher A Beka Book. F ...[Read more]
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As the Obama administration negotiates new trade agreements with European and Pacific nations, a battle has emerged over the agreements’ egregious rules that grant giant corporations unreasonable powers to subvert democracy. These rules, dubbed “inves ...[Read more]
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