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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Getting Money Out Of Politics: Delaware Becomes 15th State Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
Eight in ten Americans oppose the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that allows unlimited corporate spending on U.S. elections. Delaware is the latest state to demand to Congress step in and overturn it.
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Game-Changer: Could Elizabeth Warren’s "Bank on Students" Bill Be An Economic Breakthrough?
The Massachusetts senator's bill has been dismissed as “shameless populist demagoguery” and “a cheap political gimmick,” but could Warren’s outside-the-box bill be a game-changer that actually turns the economy around?
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From Greenwald to Assange: Prosecuting Our Watchdogs of Democracy
As the mainstream media has a field day eviscerating Obama’s secret NSA spying program, a separate clandestine debate is beginning to trickle into public discourse: how to prosecute journalists who publish big leaks.
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What the Progressive Caucus Said - and Failed to Say - About Edward Snowden and the NSA
Leaders and members of the Progressive Caucus in Congress say things that appeal to their constituencies back home — without throwing down the gauntlet and battling an administration that has made clear its contempt for essential civil liberties.
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Taksim Square Occupation: Not a Turkish Spring, But the New Young Turks
The movement so rudely shattered this week is reminiscent of a group credited with laying the groundwork for modern Turkey.
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Secret Surveillance Court Judge Who Signed Verizon Order Attended Koch-Funded Terrorism Seminar
A U.S. District Judge and member of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered Verizon to give the NSA millions of Americans' telephone records after attending expenses-paid, Charles Koch-funded seminars.
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Occupy Gezi Through the Eyes of an Occupy Wall Street Organizer
"There was the beautiful solidarity and unity I felt in Zuccotti Park, but also the righteous anger and intensity fueled by police violence that was evident in Tahrir Square," said Justin Wedes, who attended the Istanbul protests.
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"The Awakening That's Happening": How Local Sustainable Food is Transforming Communities
The movement toward healthy local-grown food is growing and it's growing fast.
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Appeals Court Rules Farmers Cannot Sue Monsanto — If Monsanto Cannot Sue Them
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that organic and non-GMO farmers and seed company plaintiffs cannot bring a lawsuit against Monsanto, because the biotech giant has committed to not suing them.
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Colonized by Corporations: When WTO Means "We're Taking Over"
After 237 years, we’re becoming a colony again.
