We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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Banker Used $400k in Bailout Funds To Buy Luxury Condo
Missouri bank executive Darryl Layne Woods spent nearly $400K of TARP bailout funds to purchase a ritzy Florida pad.
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Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide
Thousands of fast food and retail workers are striking across the United States on Thursday to push for a $15 hourly wage.
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Shutdown! Vermont Yankee Plant to Close, in Latest Anti-Nuke Victory
On Tuesday, Entergy Corp. announced it would decommission Vermont Yankee, the state’s only nuclear power plant, dealing a hard-fought win to residents statewide.
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Stockholm Activist Collective, Strengthened After Firebombing
On November 29, 2008, a leftist Stockholm collective called Cyclopen was bombed and burnt to ashes. Now, after hundreds put in summers of labor and acted through consensus-based decisions, the new gleaming building is set to open.
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Exposed: NYPD Secretly Labels Mosques As Terror Groups and Spies on Them
Confidential police documents uncovered by the AP show at least a dozen terrorism investigations into mosques since 9/11, with the NYPD using informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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Crisis of Humanity: Global Capitalism Breeds 21st Century Fascism
We are witnessing transitions from social-welfare states to social-control states around the world, as ecological degradation, social deterioration and the means of violence reflect an unprecedented global crisis.
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Farmers' Strike Paralyzes Colombia
Colombian farmworkers are marching to demand government subsidies and greater access to land.
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The Very Rich and the Rest of Us: Setting the Stage for Class War
If the 1% had taken the same percentage of U.S. income in 2006 as they did in 1980, they'd have sucked $1 trillion less out of the economy. Instead they tripled their share of post-tax income and captured ALL income gains in 2 years of recovery.
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Why Are Privately Employed Lobbyists Getting State-Funded Pensions?
There’s a big problem when lobbyists have been pushing austerity and benefit cuts for other government workers while they themselves enjoy solid state pensions.
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Exposed: Cost of Enbridge Oil Spill in Kalamazoo Tops $1 Billion
The Canadian company responsible for the mega-tar sands oil spill in 2010 violated laws involving pipeline management, procedural manuals for operations and maintenance, public awareness and accident reporting, among others.
