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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NSA Leak Revives Ethical Questions on Private Security Contractors
The Edward Snowden affair exposes the role of using contractors in intelligent work.
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U.S. Injustice Department: "Collateral Consequences" Prohibit Prosecuting Criminals
The U.S. Justice Department has established that too-big-to-fail financial institutions are immune from federal prosecution. But the vast majority of individual corporate criminals are being protected as well.
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Gas Industry Successfully Overturns Colorado Fracking Ban
The Fort Collins city council, buckling under the threat of a lawsuit by the oil and gas industry, decided last week to overturn a ban on hydraulic fracturing that had been in place for only a few months.
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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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The Liberal Narrative Is Broken, and Only Populism Can Fix It
The left dare not answer conservatives by simply saying government is good. Instead, it must make special interests a rallying cry.
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The GMO Coup: How Monsanto Took Over the U.S. Agriculture Department
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been taken over by an outside organization. RootsAction has launched a campaign demanding a Congressional investigation.
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The Fix Is In: Obama Did It for the Money
The love fest between Barack Obama and his top fundraiser Penny Pritzker that has led to her being nominated as Commerce secretary would not be so unseemly if they both just confessed that they did it for the money.
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Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker? What’s next? Labor Secretary Donald Trump? SEC Chairman Bernie Madoff? The president's latest high-level appointments — boosting corporate power and shafting the public — are despicable.
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Defanging Dodd-Frank To Protect Wall Street Vampires
The House Committee on Financial Services passed a package of bills that would overturn derivatives regulations set in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
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The Downwinders: Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania
A new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology: high-volume hydraulic fracturing.
