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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Exclusive: Who Killed Michael Hastings?
Four months after Hastings's fatal car accident in L.A., new facts and evidence continue to emerge raising serious questions about whether the journalist was assassinated, the breadth of cyber-techniques that may have been used, and who might have done it.
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The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis
It's long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it.
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Naming and Shaming: Dan Loeb, Pension Fund Solicitor — and Betrayor
Dan Loeb, who speaks Thursday before the $3 trillion Council of Institutional Investors, is guilty of soliciting retirement money of public workers then turning right around and lobbying for those same workers to lose their benefits.
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Fallout from "Untouchables": Another Wall Street Whistleblower Gets Reamed
Two very interesting and upsetting footnotes to the groundbreaking PBS documentary have emerged in the last weeks.
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Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists and got away with it.
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Rationalizing Drone Attacks Hits New Low
Should we replace E Pluribus Unum with We Don't Kill as Many Children as Measles?
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Obama's Pick for SEC Head Puts Fox in Charge of the Hen House
Mary Jo White is a perfect symbol of the revolving-door culture: where regulators go soft on suspected Wall Street criminals, knowing they have million-dollar jobs waiting for them at hotshot defense firms as long as they play nice in office.
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Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
If you've ever been arrested on a drug charge - if you've ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or "drug paraphernalia" in your gym bag - the Assistant Attorney General has a message for you: Bite me.
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BofA CEO Pleads Amnesia
Brian Moynihan plays clueless during his long-awaited interrogation.
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U.S. Sues Wells Fargo: Yet Another Bailed-Out Bank Accused of Fraud
Wells Fargo got as much as $36 billion in federal aid after the financial crash. Now it is the latest bank being sued by the U.S. government for vast fraud in the mortgage markets.