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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Ben Bernanke Admits Wall Street Execs Should Have Been Jailed
The former Fed chair says that, in addition to banks and corporations paying billions in fines for their illegal activities that triggered the economic meltdown and Great Recession, individuals should have also been held accountable.
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Buying Detroit: Why A Not-So-Public Auction Could Devastate City Homeowners
The largest known municipal foreclosure sale to date, the Detroit home sell-off could be a modern take on Manifest Destiny – luring would-be frontiersmen and speculators from across the world to try their hand at “buying Detroit.”
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How U.S. Corporations Avoided Paying 2014 Taxes, State By State, To a Tune of $50 Billion
The corporate world paid about half their required taxes, revealing the extent to which Americans are being deprived of revenue that should be going to education and infrastructure.
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The Billion-Dollar Question: When Will the U.S. Repair Its Damaged Democracy?
To watch American politics today is to watch money speaking – and the sums involved dwarf those in any other mature democracy.
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A Bank To Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank For International Settlements, Part II
The idea for an international bank had already been explored to some extent by people like the economist John Maynard Keynes. But the idea for the bank truly took off during the Young Conference in 1929, when the Allies were attempting to exact Germany’s reparations debts for WWI.
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In Rare Criminal Case, Coal Baron Faces Trial for Worker Deaths
Prosecutors charge that Don Blankenship lied to financial regulators and conspired to violate safety regulations before April 5, 2010, when a massive blast in the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia killed 29 men.
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Advocacy Support for Worker Cooperatives: Creating a Full-Fledged Support System
Only roughly half of the 50 states have worker co-op statutes on the books.
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Wars Profit the 1%, Part III: How Armed Conflict Drives Climate Change
Oil and the war business are as connected to each other as they are tied to capitalism – which is why, to tackle climate change, we need to dismantle both.
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One Bank to Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements, Part I
While its purpose has changed and evolved over the decades, the BIS has always been a club for central bankers – one that has aided some countries more than others.
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US Dollar Dominance and the Coming Crisis In Emerging Markets
The Fed's quantitative easing program channeled trillions of dollars out of advanced and into emerging market economies – laying the groundwork for an even bigger, meaner financial crisis that will extend across all economies, great and small.
