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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Golden Dawn Food Rally for "Greeks Only" Raises Tensions in Athens
A Hamas-style distribution campaign of food and clothes for the needy has topped the fascist party's outreach program – and increasingly added to its appeal.
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Fracking is Coming to California Unless the People Stop It
Fracking the 15 billion barrels of oil discovered in the Monterey Shale deposit will add 6.8 million tons of carbon pollution to the atmosphere — delaying California's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act by 80 years.
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Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama
Obama's attack on civil liberties go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don't seem easy to explain. He doesn't gain anything from it – he doesn't get any political mileage out of it.
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Obama's Secret “Free Trade” Deals Will Enrich Multinationals and Big Finance
Obama's two proposed mega-trade deals — the Trans-Pacific Partnership and US-European Union “Free Trade” Agreement — favor major corporations by weakening regulations and strengthening intellectual property laws.
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Big Pharma is Making Billions at the Expense of Our Health
Pharmaceutical giants are recycling old and discredited drugs while marketing diseases to sell the few new ones.
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Renewable Energy—a Jobs Producer—Wins Vote in North Carolina
The Tarheel State's economy lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2007 to 2012, but clean energy development led to a net gain in employment of 21,162 "job years"—a factor that helped legislators defeat ALEC and House Bill 298.
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Exposed: How Murdoch, Bill Gates and Big Corporations are Data Mining our Schools
The state is using its monopoly on education to benefit certain corporations—and students' personal information will be stored by News Corp.
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Greenpeace Launches Whistleblower Site for Oil Workers
The group launched The Arctic Truth to attract whistleblowers from oil companies to reveal risks associated with drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic.
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The Billionaire Blue Brothers Behind America's Predator Drones
Dispatch from an abandoned WWII-era airfield that is now possibly the largest private drone base in the United States.
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Nestle's CEO Says Water Is Not a Human Right
Raking in $35 billion in annual profits from water bottle sales alone is not enough for Nestle—its Chairman wants corporations to own every last drop of water on the planet.
