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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Wars Profit the 1%, Part II: How the U.K. Military Machine Is Creating Refugees
Last week's DSEi arms fair in London happened as Europe's refugee crisis reaches new proportions and countries respond to a disaster created in large part by the continent's thriving war machine.
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Leaked Emails Reveal Close Ties Between Heritage Foundation and Lockheed Martin
Defense contractors have historically played an outsized role shaping the national security debate through think tank funding – as was the case in the large donations Lockheed Martin gave Heritage, which lobbied intensely for its F-22 fighter jets.
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Our Small Texas Town Banned Fracking — Then Big Oil Stepped In to Change the Laws
Known as HB 40, the rule pushed by oil and gas companies declares the state of Texas can preempt any health or safety regulations written by local governments if the industry doesn't deem them “commercially reasonable.”
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Crisis As Opportunity: What is Germany’s Plan for Europe?
This is not merely a crisis of Greece, or a crisis of debt — it's a crisis in the structure of the eurozone itself, where national governments can't implement monetary policy to support their fiscal policies.
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Wars Profit the 1%, Part I: London Protesters Greet the Latest Global Arms Fair
The U.K. government this week is once again inviting tyrants and human rights abusers to buy weapons and torture equipment – and facing a loud coalition of activists.
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Ending the Weath Grip: America's Crisis Of Public Not Private Morality
Our problems have nothing to do with what happens in bedrooms or whether women can end their pregnancies. They have have everything to do with what occurs in boardrooms and whether corporations and the wealthy get to undermine our democracy.
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Reality Estate: Detroit's Housing Sell-off Reveals Too-Good-To-Be-True Home Prices
Buyer beware. And buyer, be aware – the same forces that led to the mass foreclosures and easy acquisition can also make life difficult for even the most earnest property owner.
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Fed Up with the Fed: Stiglitz Says Reserve Must Worry About Inequality, Not Inflation
The argument for raising interest rates focuses not on the wellbeing of workers, but that of the financiers.
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How To Feel Good About Global Poverty
Tell yourself it's easy to fix – and that you're not responsible for it. Then ask yourself these three questions.
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Productivity + Workers Pay = Inequality: New Study Shows Why Wages Aren't Rising
The widening chasm between workers’ pay and productivity is “the central component of the wage stagnation story” in the U.S., according to an Economic Policy Institute report issued ahead of the Labor Day weekend.
