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.
Corporate State
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Uh-Oh: Banks Have Become “Too Big To Fail” Again
And there’s only so much governments are willing to do about it.
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Fannie Mae Evicts Family in Foreclosure, Then Installs Armed Guards
Since January, Fannie Mae has spent nearly $50,000 of what is essentially public money to keep one home empty.
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Big Pharma is Making Billions at the Expense of Our Health
Pharmaceutical giants are recycling old and discredited drugs while marketing diseases to sell the few new ones.
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CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law
Almost three years after Congress ordered public companies to reveal actual CEO-to-worker pay ratios under the Dodd-Frank law, the numbers remain unknown.
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Most Americans Want A Financial Transaction Tax -- Will Congress Hear the Call?
The proposed financial transaction tax, introduced to Congress several weeks ago, would generate more than $300 billion a year in revenue. 60 percent of Americans support it. But Congress, as usual, is stalling.
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19-Year-Old Kennedy: Why It’s Worth Going to Jail to Stop Keystone XL
Ever since I chained myself to the White House fence with 47 other protestors urging President Obama to kill the Keystone pipeline, people have asked me why I felt so strongly about the issue.
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Exposed: How Murdoch, Bill Gates and Big Corporations are Data Mining our Schools
The state is using its monopoly on education to benefit certain corporations—and students' personal information will be stored by News Corp.
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Greenpeace Launches Whistleblower Site for Oil Workers
The group launched The Arctic Truth to attract whistleblowers from oil companies to reveal risks associated with drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic.
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Remake the Fed, Build Public Banks — and Opt Out of Wall Street
Should the Federal Reserve remain in private hands?
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The Billionaire Blue Brothers Behind America's Predator Drones
Dispatch from an abandoned WWII-era airfield that is now possibly the largest private drone base in the United States.