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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Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro: This Rightwing Coronavirus Troika Fails to Respect Human Life
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
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Green New Deal, Part VI: End Corporate Welfare Before It Kills Us
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
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Green New Deal, Part V: We Must Break the Corporate Bailout 'Logic' to Tackle Covid-19 and Climate
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
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Britain's Covid-19 Economic Recovery: Looking Beyond Austerity and Johnson’s ‘Big Gesture’ Politics
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
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How the Pandemic Exposed Faultlines In Capitalism and Failures of Gig Economy
With income streams dissolved due to the crisis, many gig workers are struggling to make ends meet – revealing the core failure of neoliberal capitalism during the pandemic.
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Capitalism’s “Dirty Little Secret”: The Threat of Rising Debt During Coronavirus
The economic damage caused by the virus is sure to grow, and as we saw with the 2008 financial crash, forcing people into debt can have catastrophic consequences.
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Corporations Will Not Save Us: The Sham of Corporate Social Responsibility
The truth is, American corporations are sacrificing workers and communities as never before in order to further boost runaway profits and unprecedented CEO pay.
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From Virgin to Tesco, Large UK Companies Accused of Trading Employee Health for Profit
Big businesses in the UK still running call centres and operating on-site amid COVID-19 are being slammed as irresponsible as they recklessly put profit before the health and wellbeing of employees.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals Devastating Impacts of Tory Austerity on N.H.S.
The UK’s overstretched health service is resorting to desperate measures: millions of planned operations are being postponed and patients are being urgently discharged to help tackle the pandemic.
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How Corporate Corruption is Impacting American Universities
Just where does all the money go that universities are pocketing from skyrocketing tuition rates? You might be surprised.
