Sunday, August 25, 2019  States With Fracking Bans Are Still Building Fracking Infrastructure Jen Deerinwater, Truthout While the U.S. as a country lags behind several European countries when it comes to bans on fracking gas, individual states like Vermont, Washington, Maryland and New York have passed bans on fracking. However, the bans are not comprehensive and allow certain types of fracking, as well as the construction of fracking infrastructure that's used to transport fracked gas.
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Move Over Wall Street, People's Banks Are Coming to Replace You Phoenix Goodman, Truthout The public banking movement is gaining traction across the U.S., raising hope that we may see the first new U.S. public bank in 100 years in the foreseeable future. Fed up with Wall Street's looting of the public trust, cities and states are moving toward a public banking option that will be accountable to the public. A transformation in U.S. banking would have far-reaching effects on global capitalism and democracy itself.
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Conservatives, the Far Right, Fascists and How We Defeat Them All Ashley Smith, Truthout In his book, The New Authoritarians, David Renton points out that the new right is not interested in overthrowing governments and establishing dictatorships, but in winning elections based on its authoritarian and reactionary programs. So, the left needs to do more than call out the fascist threat to democracy; it needs to come up with a principled program that can bring better living standards to most voters.
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While the World Is on Fire, DNC Kills Resolution for Climate Forum Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams On Saturday, the Democratic National Committee voted to strike down a resolution that would have allowed for a multi-candidate climate forum. Resolution 4 itself was seen as a compromise from an earlier resolution calling for a presidential primary climate debate, as groups including the Sunrise Movement had demanded. The vote was met with sharp criticism from a coalition of organizations that wanted the DNC to hold a debate focused on the climate crisis.
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How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon James Bandler, Anjali Tsui and Doris Burke, ProPublica The Pentagon is preparing to award a $10 billion, 10-year contract to move its information technology systems to Amazon Web Services, the biggest provider of cloud services in the country and Amazon's profit engine. Known as JEDI, for Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, the project has been the subject of accusations of favoritism. Here's how big tech companies, a few billionaires and some unofficial lobbying opened a back door into the Pentagon.
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Why Monsanto Tried to Discredit a Book That Has No Factual Errors Janine Jackson, FAIR Carey Gilliam's book Whitewash: The Story of a Weedkiller, Cancer and the Corruption of Science explores how Monsanto manipulated and collaborated with regulators to affect public policy and reduce the regulatory restrictions on its weedkiller Roundup. Monsanto went as far as to ask a judge to stop Whitewash from being introduced as evidence in a major lawsuit about the carcinogenic effects of this chemical.
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Could Climate Catastrophe Lead to Ecofascism? Alexandra Minna Stern, The Conversation White nationalists around the world are appropriating the language of environmentalism. Environmental themes were given prominence in the manifestos of the El Paso and Christchurch shooters, signaling the rise of ecofascism as a core ideology of contemporary white nationalism. Ecofascists combine anxieties about the demographic changes they characterize as "white extinction" with fantasies of pristine lands free of nonwhites and free of pollution.
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How Steep Is That Sidewalk? A Digital Map for People With Disabilities Megan Wildhood, YES! Magazine For the nearly 50,000 Seattle residents who live with disabilities, getting around the city is a constant challenge with few easy remedies. AccessMap Seattle, an app conceived in March 2015 during a city-sponsored gathering for data-based transportation solutions, wants to make it easier and safer, and hopefully drive deeper conversations about access and ability in the city.
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Insulin Prices Killed Josh Wilkerson. Now His Mother Is Taking On Big Pharma. William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Josh was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was 8 years old. As an adult, the high cost of insulin inflicted on him by price-gouging pharmaceutical corporations like Eli Lilly forced him to ration that vital medication. On June 15, that rationing killed him. In September, Josh's mother, Erin, is going to Eli Lilly's headquarters with other insulin activists to ask the company why it is killing people.
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Israel's Ban on Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Backfires Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Israel's refusal to allow Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar into Israel-Palestine backfired. It has garnered widespread criticism and focused the national discourse on the Israeli occupation and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, which Tlaib and Omar support.
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