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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People Power Just Trumped Corporate Power: Oregon County Rejects Nestle Water-Grab
Voters in one Oregon county last week approved a ban on commercial bottled water production, stopping a years-long effort by Swiss transnational Nestle to sell over 100 million gallons of water a year from the Columbia River Gorge.
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Cracks in Capitalism, Part III: "The Divide" Shows Inequality On the Big Screen
Katharine Round’s new documentary, "The Divide," adds substantially to the debate around inequality as it explains in clear terms how our 35-year experiment in neoliberalism has failed spectacularly.
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Why is the US Unwilling to Pay for Good Public Transit?
The U.S. has a major and growing infrastructure gap – though chasm is a more appropriate metaphor – as poor infrastructure and failing public transit means Americans spend $120 billion each year in extra fuel and lost time.
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Rising US Rents Squeeze the Middle Class
Middle-income renters across the country are bearing the brunt of rapid price increases as a result of growing gentrification.
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Wealth Belongs To All Of Us – Not Just To The Rich
As a white male, everything I have is a gift of the system.
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Leaks In Depth: New Database Reveals Thousands of Secret Offshore Companies
The searchable database published Monday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists displays more than 300,000 entities from the Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks investigations.
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The Rich Have You Beat in Retirement, Too
The best-paid U.S. workers are on track for 11 times more money than the lowest-paid.
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The TTIPing Point: German Protests Threaten Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal
Unprecedented protests of a scope not seen since the Iraq war in Germany have pushed negotiations over the Trans-Atlantic free trade agreement to a TTIPing point – and what some call the brink of collapse.
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Why A Brexit Would Make Working People Worse Off In Britain
Ordinary working people will pay the price for a Brexit – with the cost of energy bills likely to increase £500 per family per year, car manufacturing and farming jobs being lost, and the hospitality and leisure industries taking a severe hit.
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College Would Be Free In America If Corporations Paid Reagan-Era Taxes
Big businesses paid an effective tax rate of nearly 32 percent during Reagan’s eight years in office, but under Obama they have enjoyed paying just 22.8 percent – the average annual difference coming out to around $166 billion in corporate profit.
