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Robert Reich | Big Money and the Corruption of Democracy
Former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich. (photo: Steve Russell/Toronto Star)
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "The United States doesn't require companies registered here to disclose their real owners. We thereby provide global corporations and billionaires one of the world's easiest means of hiding their money."
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How the 'War on Terror' Inspired Terrorists to Follow America's Lead in Weaponizing Drones
James Bamford, Foreign Policy
Bamford writes: "Once little more than novelties, militarized drones are now buzzing around the globe like locusts. According to New America, “the virtual monopoly on drones that the States once enjoyed is long gone.'"
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Proof That Koch-Backed Professors Are Using Universities to Spread Right-Wing Policies
Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress
Quinlan writes: "'Economic freedom centers' - or institutes with conservative, libertarian missions that are backed by the Charles Koch Foundation - are tightly controlled by the interests of the conservative foundation, according to remarks from Koch-backed professors and executives at the Association of Private Enterprise Education's annual meeting in Las Vegas."
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Trans Activist on Why Fights Over Bathrooms Are Just the Beginning
Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone
Stuart writes: "Cherno Biko was forced to grapple with the grave consequences of even the most basic decisions early on in life. 'I come from Ohio, which is one of the worst states for trans rights,' says Biko, co-founder of Black Trans Lives Matter. As a 15-year-old, 'I went into the men's restroom and I was beat up, and so I went into the women's restroom and someone called the police on me and I was arrested.'"
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Many of Today's Factory Workers Rely on Public Assistance
Bourree Lam, The Atlantic
Lam writes: "Since the peak of U.S. manufacturing in the late 1970s, over 7 million jobs in the sector have been lost. More specifically, employment in factories all but collapsed in the aughts, when the industry shed 5 million jobs."
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Social Media Fame Shields Dissidents, Until It Doesn't
Robert Mackey, The Intercept
Mackey writes: "The first time I spoke with Zainab al-Khawaja, in a Skype video conversation in late 2011, the Bahraini dissident explained to me that the popularity of her @angryarabiya Twitter feed - which she used to chart the violent suppression of Bahrain's Arab Spring uprising that year - seemed to have given her a measure of protection from the authorities."
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Investigation Reveals Where Our E-Waste Ends Up and It Ain't Good
Katie Herzog, Grist
Herzog writes: "You probably know better than to dump your old electronics in the trash. TVs, printers, and laptops are full of harmful materials like arsenic, lead, and mercury - and when left in landfills, these toxins can leach into nearby land and water."
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