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By Jeff Ernsthausen, Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger | – ( Propublica) – Here’s a tale of two Stephen Rosses. Real life Stephen Ross, who founded
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By Sarah Baron | – ( Otherwords.org) – CEOs are taking every opportunity to further pad their own pockets. Here’s how to hold them
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( Otherwords.org) – Stop me if this sounds familiar. It’s been kind of a hard year, but I felt optimistic about the holidays. My wife and I had
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( Tomdispatch.com) – In mid-October, President Biden announced that the Port of Los Angeles would begin operating 24 hours a day, seven days a
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Movements are using this once-in-a-lifetime political moment to mobilize communities against climate change and corporate greed. By Samantha Garcia
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By Sarah Anderson | – ( Otherwords.org) – The fight to guarantee paid sick time and family leave faces an uphill battle, but advocates aren’t
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The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions Chuck collins Introduction Over the last few decades, a secret
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The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions Chuck collins Introduction Over the last few decades, a secret
We’ve all heard the saying – power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. It actually restates a more quintessential aspect of corruption
Yesterday’s piece was entitled “Banks collaborating with the regime”. Perhaps provocative, but most certainly true, though it does leave a
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Fifty years ago, my young daughter and I were on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the first Earth Day. A group of us were then launching
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Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … We are now living under an odious American oligarchy, the seven elements of which are rapidly
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Today's links Opsec and personal security: Runa Sandvik and Window Snyder on the Attack Surface Lectures. Australian predictive policing tool for
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Today's links Facebook threatens ad-transparency group: Ad Observatory gets the Power Ventures treatment. The madness of elite varsity sports:
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On Corruption in America and What is at Stake by Sarah Chayes, published in 2020. Donald Trump is an especially brazen version of a kleptocrat, the