Water is a Human Right: Detroit Residents Seek U.N. Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands
Activists in Detroit have appealed to the United Nations over the city’s move to shut off the...
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A Plan Only Banksters Will Love: WikiLeaks Reveals Trade Deal Pushing Global Financial Deregulation
The pro-transparency group WikiLeaks has released the secret draft text for the Trade in Services...
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Dave Zirin on the World Cup You Won’t See on TV: Protests, Tear Gas, Displaced Favela Residents
The 2014 World Cup in Brazil is entering its fifth day. The United States will play its first game...
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Lavabit Founder: Gov’t “Bold-Faced Lies” & Mass Surveillance Effort Forced Me to Close My Company
“The government was telling bold-faced lies,” Levison says. “It was impossible to trust them with the access they wanted.
Read MoreAs Wells Fargo is Accused of Fabricating Foreclosure Papers, Will Banks Keep Escaping Prosecution?
Justice Department massively overstated its successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact ranking it as a low priority for investigation
Read MoreSnowden Docs Expose How the NSA "Infects" Millions of Computers, Impersonates Facebook Server
New disclosures from Edward Snowden show the NSA is massively expanding its computer hacking worldwide.
Read MoreMayor of Town That Hosted Fukushima Nuclear Plant Says He Was Told: “No Accident Could Ever Happen”
You made a decision to evacuate your town before the Japanese government told the people in the area to do this
Read MoreErin Brockovich: After Chemical Spill, West Virginians Organizing "Stronger Than I’ve Ever Seen"
Dozens of people have been hospitalized since the spill, with symptoms including nausea, vomiting, dizziness, diarrhea, rashes and reddened skin.
Read MoreNAFTA at 20: Lori Wallach on U.S. Job Losses, Record Income Inequality, Mass Displacement in Mexico
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs have vanished as companies sought lower-wage workers in Mexico. Meanwhile, NAFTA has generated more poverty in Mexico,
Read MoreThe NSA Can "Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make"
the goal of the NSA really is the elimination of privacy worldwide—not hyperbole, not metaphor, that’s literally their goal
Read MoreThe Other 98% Urges Wall Street to Donate $91 Billion in Bonuses to Victims of Financial Crisis
The largest Wall Street firms have reportedly set aside more than $91 billion for year-end bonuses.
Read MoreThe Selling of ADHD: Diagnoses, Prescriptions Soar After 20-Year Marketing Effort by Big Pharma
The radical spike in ADHD diagnoses has coincided with a 20-year marketing effort to promote stimulant prescriptions for children
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