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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The .03% Solution
How a tiny tax on financial transactions could raise revenue and help the capital markets.
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Exposed: Photos Reveal "Daylight" in Faulty Welding on Keystone Pipeline
Members of the Tar Sands Blockade have revealed that they have photographic evidence showing faulty welds inside a mile-long segment of the Keystone XL pipeline currently under construction near Winona, East Texas.
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Across America, the Return of Debtor Prison
Debtor prisons seem to belong in America's past. They don't. Prison time for poor people in debt remains something that is practiced throughout the U.S. despite a 1983 Supreme Court ruling that bans it.
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The Uprising in Slovenia: Europe's Latest Popular Challenge to Austerity and Corruption
After forcing out the mayor of Slovenia's second largest city, crowds have overtaken the streets in the capital Ljubljana in recent weeks demanding an end to austerity and the resignation of the country's prime minister among others.
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New York's Victory Against Big Gas: Frackers, Get Packing
A major battle in America's frack war came to a head in New York this week as opponents of drilling mobilized by the thousands to successfully maintain a 2010 moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
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New York Town is Sued for Banning Fracking Discussion
Environmental groups claim the town of Sanford, N.Y., violated residents' free speech rights by banning talk of natural gas drilling at town meetings.
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Revealed: Deadly "Rogue Gene" Discovered in Monsanto's GMO Crops
Scientists have recently discovered a hidden viral gene, deep within genetically modified crops, that can actually disrupt the biological functions within living organisms to induce tumors and physical mutations.
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Protesters Slam CEO and "Fix the Debt" Leader over Corporate Tax Breaks
Speaking at a Fix the Debt conference on Monday, Honeywell International Inc. CEO David Cote was interrupted several times by Flip the Debt protesters over tax loopholes that allow companies to pay far less taxes than ordinary Americans.
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It's Time to Ban the Pimps of Wall Street: Credit Ratings Agencies
There is no question that without the criminally incompetent credit rating agencies the Wall Street guys would not have been able to pull off the colossal heist against the American people. Now, we should go further and simply make them illegal.
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Our Climatic Moment: We Didn't Find Nemo - We Made Him
We must stop our nation’s, and our planet's, fatal addiction to fossil fuels before climate change wipes us all out. And this begins with President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.
