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Living in Two Worlds: Capitalism Pretends All Is Well While the World Is Burning Dahr Jamail and Barbara Cecil, Truthout We are facing global environmental collapse. Yet capitalism would have us believe that the crisis is not imminent. For those of us who realize that it is, it's time to deeply reflect on strategies for living our everyday lives while on the brink of catastrophe.
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Portland Anti-Fascist Coalition Shows Us How We Can Defeat the Far Right Shane Burley, Truthout Another attempt by the far-right street gang known as the Proud Boys to hold a rally in Portland, Oregon, last weekend backfired once again when local anti-fascists crafted a counterprotest aimed at mobilizing and including nearly every segment of the local community. Portland chapters of the NAACP and the Industrial Workers of the World, along with Jobs With Justice and others joined Rose City Antifa and other anti-fascists to successfully overshadow the fascist rally.
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A Bunch of CEOs Want to Fix Capitalism. You Can't Fix Anything Built on Slavery. William Rivers Pitt, Truthout The influential Business Roundtable (BRT), a cohort of CEOs from the largest corporations in the U.S., has declared that stockholder profits must no longer be the mainstay of capitalism. This feeble nod toward economic reform is called into doubt not only by BRT's own record but also by the institution of U.S.-style capitalism itself and its roots in chattel slavery in the antebellum South. Nothing so monstrous is so easily dismantled.
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GOP's Response to Inequality Crisis? More Tax Cuts for the Rich, of Course. Morris Pearl, Truthout Pushed by Ted Cruz and 20 other Republican senators, the GOP's latest proposal to deal with inequality is to index capital gains taxes to inflation. Not only does this not make sense, as 86 percent of the benefit would go to the top 1 percent income earners like me, it is downright wrong. We need a tax code that works for all, not just the wealthy few.
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Kamala Harris to Snub Climate Forum in Favor of Big Donors Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams In the space of 24 hours, Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat running for the party's 2020 presidential nomination, made clear that when forced to choose between the interests of the donor class or progressives, she'd choose the former.
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Planned Parenthood Leaves Title X Amid Trump's Anti-Choice Restrictions Dennis Carter, Rewire.News Planned Parenthood health centers will leave the Title X family planning program rather than comply with the Trump administration's domestic "gag rule" restrictions. Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a federal spending bill in June that would stop enactment of the domestic gag rule, but it remains to be seen whether it will be passed in the Senate.
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As Deadly Bombings Devastate Afghanistan, U.S.-Taliban Peace Talks Continue Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! In Afghanistan, a series of bomb attacks devastated restaurants and other public spaces Monday in the eastern city of Jalalabad, injuring at least 66 people. The bombings came as the U.S. and Taliban are reportedly close to a peace deal after months of talks between the two parties.
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Trump-Tied Operatives Register as Foreign Agents of Libyan Wealth Fund Anna Massoglia and Jessica Piper, Center for Responsive Politics Michael Cohen's former lawyer and the political strategist reportedly behind Donald Trump's famous escalator descent launching his 2016 presidential campaign are working as foreign agents for a sovereign wealth fund managed by the government of Libya as it seeks to regain access to billions of dollars in assets frozen since 2011.
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Hepatitis A Races Across the United States Laura Ungar, Kaiser Health News Since 2016, hepatitis A has spawned outbreaks in at least 29 states, starting with Michigan and California. It has sickened more than 23,600 people, sent the majority to the hospital and killed more than 230. All but California's and Utah's outbreaks are ongoing, and experts expect to eventually see the virus seep into every state.
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No One in Jail "Gets Better" on Suicide Watch Alan Mills, Truthout I know nothing about Jeffrey Epstein's death, but as an attorney in a civil rights case against Illinois prisons, I have learned that suicides are far more common among people in prisons and jails than those outside of them. This is not surprising, as the purpose of incarceration is to create the very conditions that lead many to commit suicide: social isolation, loss of a sense of agency and helplessness.
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China Did Not Trick the U.S. -- Trade Negotiators Served Corporate Interests Dean Baker, Truthout The media never seem to question Trump's narrative that the large trade deficit with China is a result of its outsmarting the U.S. in negotiations or at best, an accidental result of past deals. In fact, the trade deals were set up to serve the interests of large U.S. corporations at the expense of their workers. Trade creates winners and losers not among countries but within countries.
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