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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How Soon Will American Populism Reclaim Democracy From the Oligarchs?
We know that the rich and big corporations now dominate the political process to an extreme worthy of an oligarchy – and we know that the only counter to organized money is mobilized people.
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Feed Them Cake: A British Group Challenges Inequality and Stolen Wealth
The World Development Movement advocates for African food sovereignty, attacks the fossil fuel industry and fights corporate power.
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Dashing Toward Oligarchy, Government Is Now a Protection Racket For the 1%
A new report shows that top C.E.O.'s were paid 331 times more than the average U.S. worker in 2013, and the poorest fifth of Americans paid twice the average tax rate as the richest 1%.
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Occupy was Right: Capitalism Has Failed the World. So What's Next?
One of the slogans of the Occupy movement was "capitalism isn't working." Now, in an epic, groundbreaking new book, French economist Thomas Piketty explains why the movement was right.
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Krugman: What the 1% Doesn't Want You to Know
The Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman explains how the U.S. is becoming an oligarchy.
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Economics For the 99%: This Is What Food and Shelter For All Looks Like
Anyone who has ever gone "skipping," or "dumpster diving," knows that shops regularly throw out masses of perfectly edible food.
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Revealed: Report Shows Wall Street Ripped Off Los Angeles for $200 Million
The fees Wall Street extracts from public entities like the ones in L.A. could total more than $50 billion a year – enough to provide free tuition at every public college and university in the country.
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Corporate Profits and the Amazing Wealth Surge For The Top 0.1 Percent
New research finds that richest 0.1 percent of Americans have doubled their share of the pie, dramatically expanding their portion of the country's wealth in three decades.
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The Bailout Next Time: Making the Bankers Squeal
During the financial crisis, the losses were so severe that every major investment bank on Wall Street should have collapsed. Will we learn from the corporate-government heist that enabled them to survive?
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After Death of Radical Mayor, Mississippi Capital Wrestles With His Economic Vision
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba had a vision of "revolutionary transformation" for Jackson – using public spending to boost local wealth through worker owned co-ops, urban gardening and "solidarity economics" development.
