How the tax code works for billionaires
The NYT has a long investigative piece explaining the procedures deployed by the Estee Lauder heirs to "shelter" their income from tax, such as donating...
The Evil that Banks Do
Meet Virginia Holwell. Virginia paid her taxes this year. She worked for the state of Illinois for 30 years but was laid off last summer. Like many of us, she...
The Financial Industry Has Become So Politically...
Three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that’s wrong. But none...
Chevron Hit With Record $8.6 Billion Judgment
An Ecuadorian judge on Monday ordered Chevron Corp. to pay $8.6 billion to clean up oil pollution in the country's rain forest in what is believed to be the...
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Where You Can And Can't Dig At The Beach, WEAR ABC, September 17, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIWI_KVGxA4
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Out in the Street Films just released the 91 minute festival cut of their hard hitting, fast cutting, out in the street documentary about people protesting in the...
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Banks bailed out; oil companies run amok; health insurers skirting the rules. The inmates are clearly running the asylum and American politicos are powerless to stop...
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Greenpeace UK organized some serious brand damage to BP with its "Rebrand BP" logo competition and now they want us to vote on the most powerful redesign of...
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The oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is a final onslaught launched from the grave of colonialism, perpetrated by a corporation that can compete with Goldman Sachs...
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BP Fails Booming School 101, creates environmental disaster and is failing to take lead in cleanup. But our federal government is also failing. STRONG LANGUAGE...
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According to a new study, health insurance companies invest $1.9 billion in the largest fast food chains. Last year, a study found they invested $4.5 billion in...
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We can't afford health care for all. But we sure can afford to spend millions to stop it. The AMA backs the chamber on this issue. In related news, doctors...
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A newborn baby in Texass is denied health care insurance coverage for a pre-existing condition, something which is now illegal under federal law.
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We don't know much about this picture of a heap of manure left in the vestibule of the Chase branch at 10th Street and Second Ave, but it's a pretty awesome...
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i understand that the joke was in poor taste, however stuff like this happens all the time, i did it when i worked at home depot even, i mean i didn't say...
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Isn't high time we start putting real criminals behind bars.
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Medical marijuana is legal in Michigan but WalMart claims it has the right to fire anyone who uses it anyway. When a routine drug screening detected marijuana in his...
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There's finally a bill to stop private, for-profit companies like Blackwater from waging war in our name with little regard for anything beyond their bottom...
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As for the 39% California premium boost, the House subcommittee released e-mails in which WellPoint executives discussed how to moderate rate increases by creating...
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