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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Why the Comcast Merger With Time Warner Must Be Stopped
Comcast spent $18.8 million on lobbying last year – among the top for U.S. corporations – and operates a giant revolving door with Washington, making it an already too-powerful communications giant.
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Wall Street Landlords Gamed the Foreclosure Crisis – And Now Occupy Our Homes
Faceless hedge funds and nameless investors are replacing landlords in many low-income and foreclosed-on neighborhoods — often with disastrous consequences.
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Don't Outlaw Living in Cars – Unless You're Giving Out Houses
Depriving the homeless of their last shelter is Silicon Valley at its worst – especially when rich cities aren't doing anything to end homelessness.
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The Heir, the Judge and the Homeless Mom: America's Prison Bias For the 1%
I hate to shatter anyone's illusions, but inequality defines our criminal justice system just as it defines our society.
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Why U.S. Fracking Companies are Licking Their Lips Over Ukraine
From climate change to Crimea, the natural gas industry is supreme at exploiting crisis for private gain.
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Why's American-Style Health Care Being Pushed In Canada? Ask the Koch Brothers
A right-wing Canadian outfit funded by the Kochs wants to privatize the Canadian health care system – and Prime Minister Stephen Harper is now steering policy that way.
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This 32-Year-Old Woman Is Dead Because Florida Refused To Expand Medicaid
As many as 17,000 people will die directly as a result of their states refusing to expand Medicaid.
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Gaming the System: Why Michael Lewis Says Wall Street "Has Gone Insane"
His exposé of the murky world of rigged high-frequency trading, has sold 130,000 copies in its first week. Clearly the public is interested.
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Bechtel Corporation Hired U.S. Ambassador Who Lobbied $1B Kosovo Road Project
Christopher Dell pushed through a deal for Bechtel Corporation, America's largest engineering and construction firm, to build the costly "Patriotic Highway" to Albania – then was hired by the firm.
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Rand Paul's Libertarianism Fails Millennials For At Least 10 Reasons
Paul has paired his retrograde economic ideas with a very outspoken stance against militarism and the espionage state – but is a zero-regulated free market what young voters really want?
