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Fortune 500 Companies Stash $2.1 Trillion Offshore as US Taxpayers Foot the Bill

Untaxed or undertaxed offshore holdings amount to an estimated $620 billion owed to US taxpayers.

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Hundreds of Artists Slam Anti-Terror Law for Its ‘Direct Attack on Creative Arts, Free Expression’

Signatories inlcuding Margaret Atwood write that C-51 ‘gives the government carte blanche to suppress any voice they don’t like.’

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Even The Wall Street Journal Is Asking How to Correct Capitalism

The question of how the ownership of capital should be structured in a democratic society was raised by none other than Margaret Thatcher’s authorized biographer.

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Demanding Medicare-for-All, Medical Students Rise Up Nationwide

“Very early in our medical careers… we learn that inequality, preventable illness, and death are an inherent part of our current private, for-profit-oriented health insurance system.”

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Mending Library Repairs Clothes and Connects People on SF’s Skid Row

SF’s Mending Library began when Michael Swaine set up a cart and got to work repairing pants, tops, jackets, bags, or whatever else a needle and thread could save.

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Free the Snake: Restoring North America’s Greatest Salmon River

The time has come to breach the deadbeat dams on the Snake River and reconnect wild salmon to this important watershed.

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Why 1.5 Million American Families Live on $2 a Day

Authors follow the lives of America’s poorest families to find out what they need to break out of poverty, and how to make it happen.

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Reversing Market Pre-Distributions to the Rich

The market is tilted in the direction of moneyed interests exerting disproportionate influence, while average people lose power—economic and political.

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Did VW Expose Flaws in US Emissions-Testing?

News emerged last week that Volkswagen used a software trick to circumvent emissions testing, putting 1000s of high-polluting diesel cars onto U.S. roads.

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Sharing Vouchers: Simple Way to Share Anything

Imagine going to a cafĂ© or other business and easily connecting with people sharing goods or services. That’s the idea behind Sharing Vouchers.