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Green New Deal, Part VII: No Justice, No Peace, It's Time to Defund the Police

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Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro: This Rightwing Coronavirus Troika Fails to Respect Human Life

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Green New Deal, Part VI: End Corporate Welfare Before It Kills Us

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My Friend David Graeber

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Rest in Power, Kevin Zeese (1955 - 2020)

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Kevin Zeese speaks at a rally for Chelsea Manning. By Ellen Davidson.
David Graeber, Caustic Critic of Inequality, Is Dead at 59

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David Graeber at his home in Manhattan in in 2005. A public intellectual, professor, political activist and author, he captivated a cult following that grew globally with each book he published over the last decade.Credit...Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times
Green New Deal, Part V: We Must Break the Corporate Bailout 'Logic' to Tackle Covid-19 and Climate

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Saving Our Economy With Public Banking

Public banking could be the antidote to free us from our dependency on Wall Street and put monetary power in the people's hands.

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Why Is Our Government Prosecuting Whistleblowers?

Government is supposed to be public and open to inspection by its citizens - and we the citizens have a constitutional right to privacy.

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The Capone Moment: Could LIBOR Fracture the International Banking Cartel?

Regulators' complicity in the LIBOR rate-rigging scandal is a weak point for the global banking cartel—which, like Al Capone's network of gangsters, may finally be on the way out.

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Internet Advocates: Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Biggest Threat Yet to Open Web

The TPP poses what many consider to be the biggest threat to global internet freedom in years.

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Mexico vs. Monsanto: A Fight for the Future of Maize

They are going to serve up transgenic maize on every table in spite of the fact that food sovereignty depends on growing native corn.

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NASA's James Hansen Takes the Case Against Tar Sands to Britain

Hansen accused the Canadian government of "holding a club" over the U.K. and European nations to accept its "dirty" oil, while a new study confirmed that 97% of climate reports attribute climate change to human actions.

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Monsanto Protection Act May Soon be Repealed Thanks to Activism

A United States Senator is expected to try to repeal the law after mounting public pressure.

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Portland Residents Debate Austerity Cuts Ahead of Final City Budget

Along a stretch of sidewalk in front of Portland's City Hall, some 50 people stood braving the rain in the hours before the city's final public budget hearing last week, where heavy austerity cuts are expected to go through.

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