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Fossil fuel industry spending millions on 2016 presidential candidates

Super PACs, fossil fuels and the money behind the presidential candidates. A DeSmogBlog report by ...  
Could a post-Scalia court give 99 per cent of Americans their country back?

Could a post-Scalia court restore campaign finance sanity and pull back from plutocracy? Analyst ...  
Antonin Scalia: The damage done

Bob Ellis laments the damage wrought by newly deceased U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scali ...  
New Hampshire's revolution and Australia

The American primaries cast a grim shadow over drifting Australian nationhood, writes Lucas ...  
Mystery explained: Hunt's award handed out by the oil industry

The nation's satirists stormed Twitter this week crying mass unemployment over the shock anno ...  
Ordinary Americans fought Big Money and won in 2015

Like the U.S., our democracy is threatened by powerful corporations who control the levers of ...  
Ruddock's retirement gig a Captain's Call?

The Australian public is gobsmacked: Ruddock as a defender of human rights? Is this Turnbull's ...  
The debilitated wombat and the understated kiwi

Former Bondi inhabitant, New Zealander David Meech, describes some of the more noteworthy features ...  
The new New Deal: Sanders' economic plan would catapult U.S. economy

Independent analysis shows U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' proposals – ...  
Massive animal die-offs: This is your climate on fossil fuels

Massive animal die-offs from butterflies to whales are being experienced around the world fuelled ...  
Economic benefit of refugees continues to be ignored

With several recent reports showing the economic advantage of refugees, PM Turnbull should impl ...  
Freeing Julian Assange: The last chapter

Will Turnbull's continuing pretence of moral superiority over his precedessor, Abbott, see him ...  
The Iowa Caucus: Are the American people stealing back the power?

Have Americans finally woken up to the fact that presidential candidates, whether red or blue ...  
Final poll gives edge to Sanders — but has Bernie already won Iowa?

The latest poll before the pivotal Iowa caucus shows Bernie Sanders holding a four point lead over ...  
What would you do with $28 billion?

The wealth of 62 individuals is equal to that of 3.6 billion of the world's poorest people. Dr ...  
Australia's dirtiest coal-fired power station launches global campaign for 1,000GW of solar

Here's a turn up! Engie, the owner of Hazelwood, Australia's dirtiest coal-fired power station, is ...  
The immoral UK pension policy discriminates against expats

Freezing pensions of British expats is an example of blatant miserly British Government discrim ...  
Why we shouldn’t be surprised that tennis is implicated in match-fixing

Yesterday, tennis authorities announced an independent review of their anti-corruption unit in ...  

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