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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Norway to Planet: This is What a Carbon Tax Looks Like
The Scandinavian oil giant announced it is doubling the carbon tax on its North Sea oil industry while committing to buy more than $100 million in carbon credits next year. Could this be a model for nations using oil income to fund the transition out of oil?
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Foreclosure Victim Sues Big Banks Over Libor Manipulation
A retiree who lost her home to foreclosure has filed a class-action lawsuit against 12 banks for allegedly manipulating Libor.
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Holding Them Accountable: Who Hijacked the American Economy?
It's time recognize the individuals who took the American economy from a model of profitability to one based on mega-million dollar derivatives deals leveraged behind closed doors, which crashed it for all of us.
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Connecting the Dots, 3/4 of Americans Now Believe in Global Warming
Though U.S. elected leaders continue to ignore the most pressing crisis facing humanity, a new survey shows three out of four Americans now believe that global warming is affecting the weather - and that it made record-high temperatures in 2012 worse.
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"Stop Beating Up the Rich": The 1%'s Cry for Justice
This year's list of American success stories was recently published, and according to its compiler, it "instills confidence that the American dream is still very much alive." We're talking money—the flow of mammon beyond regular people's wildest dreams.
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Financial Transaction Tax Gets the Green Light in Europe
European finance ministers from 11 nations last week committed to implementing a financial transaction tax, or Robin Hood Tax, to curb short-term speculation and generate massive revenue for job creation, global health, climate and other needs.
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What’s Driving the Student Debt Bubble?
The amount that students owe quintupled between 2000 and 2011, a result of similar kinds of fraudulent tools of financialization as the ones that took down the U.S. economy.
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Awakening from the Dream: The Real Facts on Fukushima
Japan is facing a nuclear crisis - with a second earthquake-induced catastrophe looming on the horizon - that neither government nor business is confronting honestly.
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Pussy Riot Member Goes Free, Following Moscow Court Appeal
A Moscow appeals court on Wednesday released Yekaterina Samutsevich, one of the three jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot, but maintained that the other two women must serve the remainder of their two-year jail term in a Russian prison colony.
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Lawmakers Exposed: Who Really Works for the 1%?
Do you wonder which members of Congress routinely side with the richest 1 percent and Wall Street? A new “Congressional Report Card for the 99 Percent" answers that question.
