The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Wells Fargo Whistleblower: "They Are All Riding the Stagecoach to Hell"
Despite all of the fines paid to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Wells Fargo continues to deny any allegations of wrongdoing. Now a former employee is disputing that claim.
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South Manchester Hospital Embodies NHS Success Even As Deep Healthcare Cuts Set In
Stepping Hill Hospital is operating under intense financial pressure – but is still saving lives – as the U.K. government continues to make billions of pounds’ worth of cuts to Britain’s NHS.
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Killing Us Softly: Five Deadly Sins of Big Pharma
“Somewhere, right now, a cash-strapped parent or budget-limited patient will skip acquiring an EpiPen. And someday they will need it in a life-threatening situation, and they won’t have it, and they will die.”
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Here’s Why Americans Are Mad as Hell at Wall Street and Washington
Tens of millions of Americans clearly understand that an entrenched system of corruption such as Wall Street, perpetuated through a revolving door with Washington, will leave the nation’s economy in tatters again.
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10 Biggest Corporations Make More Money Than Most of World Combined
The world’s top ten corporations, including Apple, Shell and Walmart, have a combined revenue that is greater than the combined income of the 180 “poorest” countries out of the world’s total 195 sovereign states.
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Elizabeth Warren’s Latest TPP Warning Backed by 200 Legal Scholars
Warren and hundreds of legal and economic scholars are warning that the pact's Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions overturn well-established legal systems and threaten the rule of law.
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Why It’s Unlikely Anyone Will Go to Jail Over Wells Fargo’s Massive Fraud Scheme
This was criminal activity on a massive scale, and it is going to have lingering effects on innocent people’s abilities to live their lives. It’s worth asking: Will anyone go to jail for this?
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Greasing the Outstretched Palms of the Candidates
Two reports underline the suffocating influence of corporate America on politics and the tricks banks play on taxpayers.
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Drugs and Privilege: Big Business, Congress and the EpiPen
This new price gouge is the latest example of a corrupt system that hurts regular Americans — but we will hold accountable those who are responsible.
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Silent Tax Foreclosure Auction Is Detroit's Largest Missed Opportunity
Wayne County's tax foreclosure auction, starting Wednesday, is a nationwide opportunity to buy Detroit homes on the cheap – but the residents of those homes have little access to information to take advantage of it.
