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Last Year, Amazon Paid No Federal Income Taxes. Now, It's Trying to Kill a Local Tax That Aims to Help the Homeless

Bezos

Watch: Sanders, Warren, Moore Headline National Town Hall on Inequality and Oligarchy

Jon Queally, staff writer

"We need to ask the hard questions that the corporate media fails to ask: who owns America, and who has the political power? Why, in the richest country in the history of the world are so many Americans living in poverty?"

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Sanders: Beyond Morally Right, Fighting Global Oligarchy a "Strategic Geopolitical Imperative"

Jon Queally, staff writer

"Taking on the greed of Wall Street, the power of gigantic multinational...

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After Money Sheet Photo Goes Viral, Mnuchin Takes It as "Compliment That I Look Like a Villain"

Jon Queally, staff writer

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures on Nov. 15 at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington.

Treasury Secretary admits he didn't think photograph would be made public, but...

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Can You Say Oligarchy? 75% of Americans Think Wealthiest Have "Too Much" Power

Come Together and Fight the Oligarchy, Sanders Tells Young Graduates

As Mega-Donors Average $1,950,000... Average Sanders Donation Still Just $27

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Senator Bernie Sanders

Report: Republican Tax Bill Hands 15 Corporations $236 Billion Tax Break

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Thom Hartmann

Alexander Hamilton Was Preoccupied with the Threat That a Presidency Like Trump’s Posed for America

John Atcheson

Inchoate Anger Is the Animating Force in Politics

John R. Wallach

On the Ambiguity of "Democracy" in America

Nozomi Hayase

Why Americans Need to Defend Julian Assange’s Freedom

Robert C. Koehler

A World Designed by Playground Bullies

Chris Winters

Power Grows Closer to Home as Big Government Fails Us

Paul Street

'Putin's War on America' Is Nothing Compared With America's War on Democracy

Chris Hedges

America The Failed State

Jeff Cohen

Do U.S. Oligarchs Exist? Not in Mainstream Media

Jim Hightower

A Regime of Austerity Versus the Common Good

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