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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Can We Get on Obama’s Ass Now?
We have to hold President Obama accountable with more than just our words. Unless he hears us loud and clear, don’t expect him to do us any favors.
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Cancer Risk Tied to Oil Sands
The development of Alberta’s oil sands has increased levels of cancer-causing compounds in surrounding lakes well beyond natural levels.
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Britain's National Health Service Being "Atomized" by Private Sector
Over 100 private healthcare firms in Britain will be allowed to provide basic care, prompting fears among senior doctors that public hospital services may go out of business.
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Surprise, Surprise: The Banks Win
A settlement reportedly in the works with big banks will soon end a review into foreclosure abuses, and it means more of the same: no accountability for financial institutions and little help for borrowers.
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Renditions Continue Under Obama
The Obama administration has embraced rendition despite widespread condemnation of the tactic.
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Climate Change Won’t Wait for the President
It’s not a fight, like education reform or abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. We’re talking about a fight between human beings and physics.
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Matt Damon’s "Promised Land" Draws Ire of Fracking Industry
The Gus Van Sant film depicts a gas industry that uses cash bribes, hard sells and Machiavellian maneuvers to get its way.
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Longshore Struggle Brews on East Coast
It's been 35 years since the International Longshoremen's Association went out on strike, but membership is ready to pick up its picket signs.
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We’re Tumbling Over an Inequity Cliff
By shifting the definition of who is rich, the fiscal cliff deal passed by Congress extends many of the notions that have made the United States the most economically unfair it has been in half a century.
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UBS Libor Manipulation Merits a Death Penalty
A more emphatic message needs to be sent to UBS bank by its prudential regulator in the U.S.: You are finished in this country.
