…January. In the mean time, Trump has floated several trial balloons suggesting that he intends to maintain ownership of the Trump Organization while handing off daily operations to his children—whom…
5 Things to Know about Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump Choice for Education
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Frackers Knew: Fossil Fuel Industry Has Known since 1967 that Injection Wells Cause Earthquakes, despite Denials
…Earthquakes”; and Daily Caller, “Geologist: Fracking Doesn’t Cause Damaging Earthquakes”. This media and government manipulation by private industry has precedent. Most noticeably, by the mid-1950s the tobacco industry was privately…
The Independent “Women’s” Voice? Most Known Donors Are Men
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Kochs’ Grassroots Leadership Academy Training Astroturf Army
…has held (or scheduled) a whopping 116 training sessions in 26 states across the country since September of 2015, and it is adding more daily. AFP claims to have over…
ALEC Exposed: Corporate Polluters Undermining Clean Power in Virginia
…negative burdens of carbon pollution. “Where I live we see the impacts of climate change on an almost daily basis. The smallest rainstorm can cause severe flooding and makes some…
Hotel Industry Spins Wage Hikes as Extreme while CEOs Rake in Millions
…compared to April 2014 and the average daily rate for a room is almost 13 percent higher than it was a year ago. Executive salaries have skyrocketed. But the little-known…
More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda
…Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt went on NPR’s Diane Rehm show. Following a question from a caller about ALEC, Schmidt admitted that Google had made a mistake in providing ALEC…
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