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Will Burger King Have Its Way On Taxes? Burger King to buy Tim Hortons and move its headquarters to Canada. US News & World Report: “Miami-based Burger King is reportedly in talks to buy the Canadian-owned Tim Hortons chain of coffee and doughnut shops....
A Stock-Market Milestone is Reached, But Who Cares?
Monday morning the S&P 500 composite index briefly passed the 2,000 mark. But out beyond Washington and Wall Street and the Hamptons, out in the world where most Americans live, things aren’t quite as rosy.
Now Burger King Renouncing U.S. Citizenship - Let's Eat Somewhere Else
Every part of Burger King’s success was enabled up by our taxpayer-funded American system. Now Burger King wants to take off from the country that made them what they are. But they still want us to eat their food.
“Carbon” Introduces Short Film Series on Climate Crisis
If you want to know how bad the climate crisis is, and what you can do about it, check out “Carbon”; the first in a series of short films aimed at exploring crucial issues related to the climate crisis.
Trade Commission Tells South Korea, Others To Stop "Dumping" Steel
South Korea and seven other countries were found to have been selling steel piping and fittings at below-market prices in an effort to put competitors out of business. This is a big deal for the U.S.-based steel industry.
Progressive Breakfast
Burger King May Invert Burger King may flee to Canada. WSJ: "Burger King Worldwide Inc. is in talks to buy Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Hortons Inc., a deal that would be structured as a so-called tax inversion and move the hamburger seller's base to Canada...
Forward Together: Moral Mondays' "Moral Week Of Action" Takes Off
This week, North Carolina’s Moral Mondays Movement has launched a “Moral Week of Action” to demand that Republicans “repent and repeal” their public policy attacks on citizen's human and civil rights.
Wingnut Week In Review: The Ferguson Edition
For most of America, the shooting of yet another unarmed, young black man laid bare the way that racism and inequality play out in our streets. For wingnuts, it was another chance to appeal to the basest of the GOP base.
Ferguson Commentary: If We Bend Not Our Energies
The nation’s focus on the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri confers yet another opportunity for deeper racial understanding, but like too many others it is fleeting and frail.
Austerity Has Made Europe's Depression Longer Than In The 1930s
Europe's governments are learning that spending cuts slowed economic growth and actually increased deficits. Meanwhile, America's "Great Recession" also drags on thanks to cutbacks in government spending.
