Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
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What Republicans and Billionaires Really Mean When They Talk About ‘Freedom’
If you ask the Koch brothers and their buddies—who slap those words "freedom" and "liberty" on pretty much everything they do—you’d get a definition that largely has to do with being “free” from taxation and regulation.
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Monsanto Has Been Ordered To Pay $80 Million After A Jury Found Its Weed Killer Caused A Man’s Cancer
The jury determined the popular weed killer was a "substantial factor" in the development of a California man's non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 3.0: Lobbying and Bribing To Secure Market Dominance
The amount that Amazon has spent purchasing political influence has recently skyrocketed – quadrupling from the $3 million it spent on lobbying in 2013 to $14.4 million last year.
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Ocasio-Cortez: Maybe Wall Street Bankers 'Not the Best Authority' on Wellbeing of People and Planet
JP Morgan invested $195.66 billion in oil and gas companies between 2016 and 2018, making the Wall Street bank "the world's top funder of fossil fuels by a wide margin."
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D.C. Girds for Exxon Climate Battle
Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine has revealed plans to hire climate lawyers to focus on an investigation and potential litigation against Exxon Mobil Corp.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 2.0: Our Government’s Faustian Bargain for Cloud Storage
Amazon provides is unmatched providing cloud storage to our federal government, gubernatorial organizations and local municipalities, with over 2,000 agencies now dependant on AWS.
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Jeopardizing Britain's Wealth and Welfare, Brexit Had To Lose
The rejection of a no-deal left the government crestfallen as its attempt to keep control of the Brexit process by maintaining a no-deal on the table was quashed.
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An Autopsy of the American Dream
A conversation with Tailspin author Steven Brill, who has been writing about class warfare in the U.S. since 2011. The picture he paints is as depressing as it is persuasive.
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Putting Billionaires In Their Place
America’s billionaires have suddenly realized they just may be facing an existential crisis: A good chunk of the American people, they now understand, would rather billionaires not exist.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 1.0: Bolstering the Surveillance State with Rekognition
The potential abuse of this software for surveillance and data harvesting purposes is so troubling that some of Amazon’s shareholders have pleaded with the company to forgo selling its facial recognition technology to the government.