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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Season of the Demagogues: Brexit Exposes Ways Britain Is Moving Closer to U.S.
After Prime Minister David Cameron’s departure, Brexit Britain will hold a leadership race and possible national election later in 2016, with the race for Downing Street set to be as divisive as the Brexit campaign and perhaps even the U.S. presidential race.
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Act Out! [70] - Democrats, Republicans & The Illusion of Choice; Women in Boats for Freedom
This week, let's take a walk down the aisle – the political aisle, that is – and see where we might find some common ground. Next up, the Women's Boat to Gaza calls for peace and highlights the role of women in the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
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Bernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Wake Up
Surprise, surprise.
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Media Executives See Huge Payday Fueled by Donald Trump’s Campaign
Trump “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS, that’s all I got to say,” said Les Moonves, the chief executive of CBS Corp. and the most vocal enthusiast of Trump’s effect on media revenue.
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Trump acknowledges climate change —at his golf course
The billionaire who called global warming a hoax is now warning of its dire effects in his company's application to build a sea wall to protect Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland in County Clare.
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Welcome to 1984
1984 America is about—unless we act quickly—to get ugly. It's in a moment of history that Antonio Gramsci called the “interregnum”: the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place.
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“Yes We Can!" From Spain to Britain to America, a Revitalized Left Is Emerging
What began in Zuccotti Park and then spread across North America was a major contributor to the Bernie Sanders phenomenon that has forced leftwing ideas into the U.S. political conversation for the first time in decades.
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Robert Reich: Why Either Trump’s and Cruz’s Tax Plans Would Be the Largest Redistributions to the Rich in American History
The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and Ted Cruz – are larger, as a proportion of the government budget and the total economy, than any tax cuts ever before proposed in history.
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Citizen Trump: How an American Caudillo Came to Dominate the 2016 Presidential Race
The religions and ethnicities may have changed, but the core nativism that the former Celebrity Apprentice host promotes is much the same: a full-throated call for a simpler, more ignorant time that only ever existed in the imagination.
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Below the Fold [Podcast]: Brother Ali Wrestles With His Ego While Creating A New Album
Hounded and harassed by Homeland Security after his song and video Uncle Sam Goddam went viral back in 2007, Brother Ali continues to be called one of raps most insightful and political artists.
