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Category: Corporations

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Death by TIF: Another African-American neighborhood faces extinction

May 24, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, Corporations, Government, History, Missouri region Leave a comment

Local history may be about to repeat itself in suburban St. Louis, as another well-established African-American neighborhood faces extinction by buyout, demolition and commercial

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Capitalism isn't working

Material Conditions First!

June 21, 2017 Adam Levin Activism, Capitalism, Corporations, Democracy, Economy, Media, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Consider two anecdotes: The First: Recently I tried to get into the mind of a Trump supporter that had posted a status about the

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Neet Neutrality Featured

Net Neutrality: Round Two

April 12, 2017 Renee Shur Activism, Capitalism, Consumer issues, Corporations, Corruption, Democracy, Technology Leave a comment

It looks like Trump-appointee Ajit Pai over at the FCC is setting his sights on unraveling regulations that guarantee net neutrality. This radical change

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The United States of corporate welfare

December 12, 2016 Bobbi Clemons Capitalism, Corporations, Taxes, Trump, Widgets Leave a comment

Another day, another corporation receiving massive tax breaks by the government. Most recently, it was $7 million from the Trump/Pence administration to Carrier (owned

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With friends like hedge fund managers, education reform does not need enemies

May 25, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Business, Capitalism, Corporations, Education One comment

One of the oddities, for me, about what is happening in education now is how those promoting more standardized testing are called “reformers.” Really,

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Rooting for GOP opposition research on Hillary

May 10, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Banks, Campaigns, Capitalism, Corporations, Financial reform, Hillary Clinton, Politics 5 comments

It’s nothing new to say that sometimes Hillary Clinton is her own worst enemy. I’ve been a Bernie supporter, but I really want to

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Why I’m voting for Bernie Sanders

February 15, 2016 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Bernie Sanders, Corporations 3 comments

First off, let me be clear. I’m voting for Bernie Sanders in the primary and I hope he wins the nomination. If he doesn’t

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Why journalists engage in so many false equivalencies

October 26, 2015 Arthur Lieber Corporations, Democracy, Ethics, Ideas, Media, Republican Brain 3 comments

For some time, we have been examining why Republicans look at things so differently from Democrats. Much has been written about the Republican brain

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Noam Chomsky: On capitalism and why electing Bernie isn’t enough

October 25, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Activism, Banks, Climate Change, Corporations, Corruption, Democrats, Environment, Hillary Clinton, Obama Leave a comment

    In a recent interview in Jacobin, linguist, philosopher, and political activist Noam Chomsky gave an interesting answer to a question about the American capitalist system. He basically said

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NRA: Still the official pimp for the multi-billion dollar gun industry

October 11, 2015 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Crime/Violence, Guns Leave a comment

We’re republishing this post from 2012, because it continues to have relevance to our ongoing debate about gun violence in America. After the recent mass shooting

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