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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Greek Journalist Who Leaked "Lagarde List" of Tax Evaders Faces Retrial
The Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, who caused an uproar by publishing the so-called "Lagarde list" of 2,000 suspected tax evaders from his country who hold bank accounts in Switzerland, is on trial in Athens on charges of infringing privacy laws.
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The Government Leakers Who Truly Endanger America Will Never Face Prosecution
Vast troves of U.S. secrets get regularly leaked by skilled teams of government officials engaged in propaganda campaigns to influence public opinion — posing a far graver threat to national security than revelations by Edward Snowden.
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Groundbreaking Report Reveals High-Scale Damage From Fracking
A new study found that 280 billion gallons of toxic wastewater and 450,000 tons of air pollution was generated by hydraulic fracturing in 2012 alone.
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Hedges: The Sparks of Rebellion
With the decimation of U.S. manufacturing along with the dismantling of our unions and opposition parties, we will have to search for different instruments of rebellion.
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Public Education At Peril With ALEC's Private Scholarship Tax Credits
Tuition scholarship tax credit laws being pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council will use state tax codes to subsidize private or parochial education, with grave consequences for public education spending.
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In Government Shutdown, "Nonessential" Federal Workers Are First To Go
On Tuesday, military recruiters, drug enforcement agents and National Weather Service meteorologists will be reporting for duty, while environmental engineers, food inspectors, labor statisticians and off-duty firefighters will not.
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Which Companies Are Disclosing More Political Spending?
In an age of hidden election cash, the nation’s wealthiest public companies are increasingly revealing their campaign-related contributions and political policies — and doing so voluntarily.
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TPP Protesters Scale U.S. Trade Rep HQ
Eight "construction workers" in blue coveralls and yellow hard hats made their way up an unsecured scaffolding in D.C. to unfurl a huge banner condemning the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Enron Billionaire and Pew Trusts Looting Public Pensions
A dark partnership between Pew Charitable Trusts and an Enron executive aims to cut guaranteed retirement income and rob American workers of their pensions.
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House Democrats Demand Hearing on Massive Oil and Gas Spills in Colorado Floods
Two congressmen are trying to investigate toxic spills caused by massive flooding in Colorado, where oil and gas well drilling has doubled since 2006.
