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Prashanth Kamalakanthan, AlterNet: The 'charitable-industrial complex,' where the wealthy set up philanthropic efforts with little or no knowledge of the structural issues within this country, continues the cycle of inequality under the guise of charity.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/18279-how-billionaire-philanthropy-is-fueling-inequality-and-helping-to-destroy-the-country



Plutocrats at Work: How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy

Joanne Barkan, Dissent: Philanthropy is the exercise of wealth-derived power in the public sphere with minimal democratic controls and civic obligations. Without countervailing forces, wealth in capitalist societies already translates into political power; big philanthropy reinforces this tendency.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19552-plutocrats-at-work-how-big-philanthropy-undermines-democracy



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Cliff DuRand, Truthout: 'Corporate-led neoliberal globalization [have transformed] nation-states into globalized states that serve the interests of transnational capital above the interests of national populations,' writes DuRand about policies like the TransPacific Partnership.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/18221-contradictions-of-global-neoliberalism

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How Corporate America Used the Great Recession to Turn Good Jobs Into Bad Ones
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/20-3

The Un-American Way: On the Anti-Democratic 'Trans-Pacific Partnership'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/22-3

Passage of Trans Pacific Partnership Would Be Win for Corporations, Loss for the 99%
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/06-9

After 20 Years, NAFTA Leaves Mexico s Economy in Ruins
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/10-3

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Report shows how recession hit families

The number of U.S. households with an unemployed parent and a child under 18 living at home soared from 2005 to 2011, a Census Bureau report says.

http://is.gd/TjE6FI



The Coming Grand Bargain: 'We're All Neoliberals Now'

By Shamus Cooke

The attacks on Social Security, Medicare, and public education are neoliberal-style "structural reforms," essentially a corporate attempt to change the underlying social compact of U.S. society.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36617.htm


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'Guardian': Massiver Druck der Regierung wegen Snowden-Material

Britische Regierung: 'Guardian' muss Snowden-Material zerstören.
http://www.gmx.net/themen/nachrichten/ausland/84akjak-guardian-massiver-druck-regierung-snowden-materials#.A1000146



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