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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Apart from just sending millionaires checks, it's hard to think of a tax cut more targeted to the ultra-rich."

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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A Vox report that swiftly sparked alarm across the internet Friday outlined how, "in the era of neurocapitalism, your brain needs new rights," following recent revelations that Facebook and Elon Musk's Neuralink are developing technologies to read people's minds.


Students take part in a climate rally in London's Parliament Square

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Highlighting an open letter now co-signed by 175 teachers that urges educators around the world to cancel classes and join the global climate strike scheduled for Sept. 20, two of the original signatories published an op-ed in The Guardian Friday explaining why striking "in the name of climate justice is a resounding endorsement of learning."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Unless world governments, consumers, and businesses all work together to address the root causes of the current burning of the Amazon rain forest, the Arctic, and forests in the Congo and Angola, the planet will continue careening toward a point of no return, the U.N.'s top biodiversity expert said Friday. 

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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Wealthy CEOs and business executives steal millions of dollars from the public and never go to jail."


Children and adults wait for the arrival of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg into New York City after crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat on on August 28, 2019 in New York City.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Swedish teen continues weekly school strike for climate, for the first time on this side of the Atlantic



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Sanders has introduced a $16.3 trillion Green New Deal plan to avert climate catastrophe and create 20 million jobs in the process

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In this NASA handout image taken from aboard the International Space Station, shows Hurricane Florence as it travels west in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the U.S. on September 12, 2018. (Photo: NASA via Getty Images)

by Craig Holman
We're facing now is a perfect storm of corruption and criminality on a scale that's almost impossible to fathom.



by Ralph Nader
If Trump wins, America loses. The outcome is up to you in November 2020.


It is our job as the Labour party to ensure that we prevent the huge damage to the living standards and well-being of the ordinary people of this country that Trump, Johnson and No Deal will inflict. (Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

by Diane Abbott
For Trump, No Deal is imperative; a key step towards a vassal Britain, subject to his rules on everything from health to cars to food.


Local opponents to the Amulsar gold mining project in Armenia have been protesting the operation and blockading access to the site. (Photo: TJ Chua / War on Want)

by TJ Chua
This is the sinister mechanism known as ISDS in action—holding a sovereign government to ransom until it betrays the desires and rights of its own people


The 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London killed seventy-two people. (Photo: Natalie Oxford)

by Sarah Jaffe
Catastrophes in the Amazon and elsewhere are flash points for the larger, ongoing crisis that claims lives in less spectacular fashion—one that sees life itself as expendable.


Workers listen to President Donald Trump speak at the International Union of Operating Engineers International Training and Education Center in Crosby, Texas. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP Photo)

by Steven Greenhouse
A Labor Day look at the president’s continual attacks on America’s working men and women.

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