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 Trillion Dollar Coin: What You Really Need to Know
The floating of the trillion-dollar coin has inadvertently opened up a window not just to reform, but to transform our monetary system: if the U.S. government can issue its own interest free money, why borrow at interest instead?
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The Implosion of the GOP and the Rise of Third Parties
It’s time for fresh faces and fresh ideas in the stuffy chambers of Congress, and this decade will mark the rise of third parties to hold true political power at the highest levels of government.
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"Petcoke" from Tar Sands Warms Climate More Than Coal
Environmental groups last week released a study that found refining tar sands will create 5 billion tons of burnable petroleum coke, or petcoke, which emits more CO2 than coal.
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How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
A member of the Federal Reserve Board argued last week that megabanks not only threaten taxpayers with bailouts and should be broken up, but their continuing failure to lend is also thwarting the economy.
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European Parliament Approves Financial Transaction Tax
By an overwhelming majority, 533 Members of the European Parliament voted in late 2012 in favor of a Financial Transaction Tax, bringing the Robin Hood Tax one step closer to reality.
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Dr. Occupy, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Run for Congress
I'm one of the minority in the Occupy movement who optimistically believes our politics can be redeemed, that direct action tactics and grassroots campaigns can be brought successfully to electoral politics. So I ran for office.
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The Battleline: Their Coal Exports Or Our Future
The public commenting period to block the latest massive coal export facility from being built at Cherry Point in Washington state ends tomorrow. The future belongs to Peabody Coal and Goldman Sachs, or it belongs to us.
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Revealed: The EPA Censored Evidence Linking Methane Contamination to Fracking
An investigation published last week revealed that the Obama Administration's EPA censored a scientific report explicitly linking methane migration to hydraulic fracturing.
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New York City's Bus Strike At Critical Juncture
Employee Protection Provisions are at the heart of the bus strikers' dispute roiling New York City, where 24-hour pickets set up by the Amalgamated Transit Union surrounded bus depots from the Bronx to Staten Island.
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Is the "Democracy Initiative" Really What We Need?
The goals adopted by this progressive alliance cannot lead an effort to mobilize the majority of working people because they do not directly address the issues immediately impacting millions of workers.
