Tag: Wall Street
Sanders slams Republican Senate for happily approving $740 billion for pentagon...
“Instead of more austerity for the working class of this country, we need to impose austerity on the billionaire class and on Wall Street.”
What Wall Street doesn’t want you to know about hospital emergency...
The furor over patients hit by surprise medical bills revealed that TeamHealth controls the billing for the doctors it supplies to hospital emergency rooms.
The future of Exxon and the Permian’s flaring crisis
Chevron has already admitted that it might cut spending in response to the sudden Saudi-Russia price war. Exxon too might soon have to slam on the brakes.
Sanders says Trump clemency for ‘Wall Street crooks’ and ‘corrupt’ officials...
"This is what a broken and racist criminal justice system looks like."
Wall Street donor influence shows unprecedented growth 10 years after Citizens...
After a candidate is elected, mega-donors look to influence public policy, which occurs fairly regularly in politics
“Stop the money pipeline”: 150 arrested at protests exposing wall street’s...
“Let us remember that we are not the criminals. The criminals are the people who are letting this world burn for money.”
Climate movement targets Wall Street to stop driving fossil fuel industry’s...
It's no secret that the driving force behind the fossil fuel industry's expansion is the financial industry. But the nation's leading climate...
Homewreckers: How Wall Street, banks & Trump’s inner circle used the...
We speak with investigative reporter Aaron Glantz about his new book “Homewreckers,” which looks at the devastating legacy of the foreclosure crisis...
Wall Street is killing local newspapers
We can’t put a price tag on our free press — but unless we stop them, predatory investors can.
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Teamsters launch largest strike against Amazon in US history to demand fair wages and...
Amazon workers launch historic nationwide strike, demanding better wages, safer conditions, and union recognition from the $2 trillion corporation.
Pregnant woman in labor cited under Kentucky anti-homelessness law
Pregnant homeless woman in labor ticketed under Kentucky’s anti-camping law, sparking national outrage over the criminalization of homelessness.
Elon Musk for Speaker of the House? Republicans float billionaire amid spending bill fight
Republicans propose Elon Musk as Speaker of the House after his role in sinking a spending bill, raising unprecedented ethical and governance concerns.
Israeli soldiers enforce kill zone in Gaza, targeting civilians and leaving bodies to rot
Israeli forces implement open-fire policies in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, targeting civilians and leaving corpses uncollected as a warning to others.
Syria’s new fundamentalist government: Women ‘biologically’ unsuited to politics, universities to be segregated
The comments provoked a firestorm of protest among Syrian women and, well, non-fundamentalists.