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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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic
A blatantly unconstitutional trade deal, the TPP would destroy our republican form of government under the rule of law by elevating the rights of investors – also called the rights of “capital” – above the rights of citizens.
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Deutsche Bank Hit By Record $2.5 Billion Libor-Rigging Fine
The penalties on Germany’s largest bank also involve a guilty plea to the Department of Justice.
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Bernie Sanders Intervenes on Senate Floor Slowing Fast Track for TPP
This job-killing trade deal has been negotiated in secret, drafted with input by special interests and corporate lobbyists but not from the American people.
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Unequal States of America: Trillions in New Wealth, Millions of Children in Poverty
America’s wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion – and in approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent.
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Why Money in Politics Is Darkening the Future for Millennials
From student debt to climate change, and from fair pay to gun control, young people are seeing the issues that affect them most lose out to the interests of rich corporations and the super wealthy whose power shapes Congress.
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Tens Of Thousands March In Europe to Protest Rigged Corporate Trade
“We are convinced that the entire public interest is at stake, whether water, energy, health, and public transport – the communities are largely deprived of their ability to act."
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The US is the World Leader in Child Poverty
The number of homeless children has grown by 60 percent in the past six years.
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3.4 Million Displaced: How the World Bank Breaks Its Promise to Protect the Poor
Since 2004, an estimated 3.4 million people have been forced from their homes, deprived of their land or had their livelihoods damaged because they lived in the path of a World Bank project.
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Bank Workers Tell Their Bosses: Stop Making Us Sell Shady Products To Poor People
The newest line of criticism for the banking industry is coming from within, as a group of rank-and-file banking employees from the country's largest commercial banks demand that their employer stop ordering them to use predatory sales tactics.
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Robert Mundell, Architect of the Euro, Always Envisioned Deregulation
The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive – the euro is doing exactly what its progenitor, and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it, predicted and planned for it to do.
