Tuesday, September 24, 2019  States, 2020 Candidates Push Back Against Facial Recognition Technology Candice Bernd, Truthout Rep. Beto O'Rourke is joining Sen. Bernie Sanders in calling for a federal ban on facial recognition technology as resistance spreads at the federal, state and local level amid California's recent passage of a state-level moratorium. New York, Michigan and Massachusetts are also considering bills to place a hold on the technology while lawmakers work to introduce federal legislation in Congress.
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Trump Can't Decide Whether to Deny or Brag About His Impeachable Offense William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Donald Trump has committed an impeachable offense in broad daylight, but Nancy Pelosi has not committed to taking the appropriate action. Meanwhile, a showdown between the administration and House Democrats is looming on Thursday that could either restore, or finally destroy, the concept of government oversight.
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Sanders Proposes Wealth Tax to Slash Fortunes of Ultra-Rich Jake Johnson, Common Dreams To tackle "outrageous and grotesque and immoral" levels of inequality in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday proposed a new wealth tax on the richest Americans that economists say would slash the fortunes of billionaires in half over 15 years and raise an estimated $4.35 trillion in revenue during the first decade.
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Will 2020 Presidential Candidates Take On Corporate Tribunals? Michael Galant, Truthout Investor-state dispute settlement, an obscure system of corporate courts built into many trade and investment agreements, empowers corporations to sue countries that take any action expected to harm profit. Grassroots organizations must pressure Democratic candidates to take on this system, which is enabling corporate power grabs and eroding health, labor and environmental protections around the world.
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"How Dare You!" Greta Thunberg Rebukes World Leaders Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation After rallying 4 million people into the streets on Friday in the biggest global climate strike yet, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg brought her message inside United Nations Headquarters yesterday with a furious speech that was equal parts "J'accuse" and hardball politics.
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Trump's Ukraine Call Raises Questions About Campaign Finance Rules Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics Trump may have violated campaign finance law with his call to Ukraine's president, given the value that an investigation into Biden and his son could bring the Trump campaign in the event of a 2020 clash. Under federal law, campaigns are barred from accepting or soliciting a "thing of value" from foreign nationals or governments in connection with an election.
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Brazil's Indigenous Leader Attacked by Bolsonaro Over Efforts to Preserve Amazon Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now! A number of Indigenous leaders from Brazil traveled to New York to protest Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's push to open the Amazon rainforest for agribusiness, logging and mining. Chief Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó tribe spoke on Monday outside the UN Climate Action Summit about the situation in the Amazon and was later barred from entering the summit.
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The U.S. Border Is Much Bigger Than You Think -- and Not Just Because of Trump Todd Miller, TomDispatch The emerging U.S. global border system can be conceptualized in two ways: There are our territorial borders, of course, but increasingly there is a global empire of borders meant to promote Washington's geopolitical, economic and military interests, no matter who is in office.
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Purdue Hires PR Firm That Helped BP After Catastrophic 2010 Oil Spill Andrew Perez and Lee Fang, MapLight Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical firm that manufactures OxyContin and allegedly helped fuel widespread addiction to painkillers, has turned to some of the same corporate spin doctors hired by BP after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The relationship was revealed in a legal document disclosed on September 15 when Purdue filed for bankruptcy protection.
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Trump's Deregulatory Agenda Has Been Driven by Corporations Janine Jackson, FAIR Corporate CEOs, we're to believe, are just barely tolerating the president who's shoveling them tax breaks and policy wish lists according to most mainstream news headlines. Public Citizen's Amit Narang discusses how this is factually inaccurate.
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Can Nuclear Power's Deadly Waste Be Contained in a Warming World? Karen Charman, Truthout Proponents of nuclear energy are trying to revive it as a safe alternative to fossil fuels, but it is a dangerous choice in an age of mounting natural disasters fueled by rapid climate change. Natural disasters can disrupt nuclear power plants' cooling systems, and the reactor meltdowns that result can spew radioactive contamination over enormous distances, leaving radiation poisoning and cancer in their wake.
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Mutual Aid Networks Go Beyond Disaster Relief. They Offer Community Empowerment. Robert R. Raymond, Truthout Climate resilience for the most vulnerable communities is often a byproduct of past efforts to organize around a wide variety of causes that go beyond disaster relief. Mutual aid centers in Puerto Rico and Occupy Sandy in New York both provide models of successful local responses to disasters. These efforts to provide immediate relief for disaster-struck communities can subsequently become a center of long-term organizing for building political power.
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