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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How the Progressive Caucus has Enabled Obama’s Rightward Moves
The failure of the Congressional Progressive Caucus to stand up to President Obama on many vital matters of principle is one of the most important – and least mentioned – political dynamics of this era.
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AIG Investors Break the World Record for Arrogance
The shareholders of AIG, the giant insurance company the Federal Reserve bailed out with $180 billion, are considering suing the federal government for rescuing their company from collapse.
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Why the FCC's Media Consolidation Scheme is a Bad Idea
The FCC's plan to relax the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership ban will hurt media diversity.
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The Digital Disruption: Technology and Economics for the 99%
Only by ending the corporate market system can the 99% create a new system based on use-value - value for actual human needs - and enable us to use the full capabilities of technology to sustain human life.
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Secret Goldman Team Sidesteps Volcker Despite Blankfein Vow
A secret unit within Goldman Sachs that has no clients exists solely to circumvent regulations curbing proprietary bets at banks.
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Halting the Oil: Our Civil Disobedience Today
The Keystone pipeline is an intolerable threat to our future. We stand together as representatives of a desperate generation who have been forced into this position by the reckless and immoral behavior of fossil fuel corporations.
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Flawed Foreclosure Review Replaced with Vague $8.5 Billion Settlement
Banking regulators admitted the Independent Foreclosure Review was a big expensive mess and shut it down. But many details about the $8.5 billion settlement that replaces it remain murky.
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Unveiling Greece's Rotten Oligarchy
The Lagarde List - roughly 2,000 Greek citizens with Swiss bank accounts - implicates a corrupt group of officials with offshore companies, friends and relatives of government ministers, bankers, publishers and those involved in the black market.
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New Documents on Activist Surveillance "Just the Tip of the Iceberg"
The security and surveillance state overseen by Barack Obama has empowered the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to obstruct the activity of citizens who question corporate power.
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Debtor Nation: The Financial War Against the Economy At Large
The weapon in today's financial warfare is no larger military force, but a tactic to load economies (governments, companies and families) with debt, siphon off their income as debt service, then foreclose when debtors lack the means to pay.
