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The U.S. Border Security Industry Could Be Worth $740 Billion by 2023 Michelle Chen, Truthout The budgets of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection have exploded in recent years. Much of the funding is plowed into public-private contract deals with large firms that furnish immigration agencies with everything from tear gas canisters to health care for imprisoned migrants. Meanwhile, migrant jails, euphemistically described as "detention centers," have mushroomed across the country.
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It's Time for the Left to Abandon AMLO Tom Sullivan, Truthout Last year, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known popularly as "AMLO," became the first left-wing president of Mexico since the 1930s. Now that it is time for action and implementation, the Mexican Left can no longer afford unquestioning loyalty to a pseudo-revolutionary president, and run the risk of institutionalization and patronization of progressive social movements.
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Love and Perseverance Keep Communities Whole in the Face of Mass Consumerism Samantha Borek, Truthout The graphic novel, Me, Mikko, and Annikki: A Community Love Story in a Finnish City, is about the fight to preserve old and culturally significant spaces against irresponsible consumerism, says the book's translator, Helena Halmari. Together with co-translator Michael Demson, Halmari discusses the universal appeal of the Finnish community of Annikki and how author and artist Tiitu Takalo tells a multidimensional love story that is personal as well as political.
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Trump Is Tinder for the White Nationalist Explosion That John Tanton Stoked Steven Gardiner, Truthout The Department of Homeland Security has recently acknowledged the threat of white nationalist violence. While this move should be welcomed, we must recognize that President Trump's policies and rhetoric have helped fan the flames of the violence. The late John Tanton, who acted as a bridge between explicitly white nationalist groups and the public policy realm, threateningly predicted an explosion of white racial violence. Trump is now stoking the flames.
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Trump Opens 725,000 Acres of California's Coast to Fossil Fuel Drilling Jake Johnson, Common Dreams The Trump administration on Friday moved to open a huge section of California's central coast to oil and gas drilling. The decision, announced by the Bureau of Land Management, ends a five-year moratorium on leasing federal land in California to fossil fuel companies. Environmentalists condemned the move as disastrous at a time when we urgently need to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
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Democrats Waited Too Long to Impeach Trump. It Could Backfire in 2020. Thomas Neuburger, Down With Tyranny Of course impeachment was always the right thing to do. But having waited so long to do it, and having chosen Joe Biden's integrity as the hill to die on, Democrats may find that their decision to impeach Donald Trump has created a trap. The nation needed better from Democratic leaders, and both the party and the nation may soon pay a price for their failure.
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We Need a Public Option in the Pharmaceutical Industry Janine Jackson, FAIR Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy after raking in billions from aggressively and irresponsibly promoting the painkiller OxyContin, spurring a deadly wave of opioid addiction. Officials and media are showing an increased interest in accountability. But what if we wanted not just to replace these pharmaceutical profiteers with new ones, but to change the structure that incentivizes unscrupulous behavior?
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Extractive Industries Are Fueling Violence Against Indigenous Women Abaki Beck, YES! Magazine Later this month, the South Dakota Water Management Board will be holding five hearings on water permits needed for the Keystone XL pipeline expansion. If the pipeline expansion is approved, it will affect several tribal and First Nations communities along its route. Tribal activists fear this will bring not only economic and environmental impacts, but also sexual violence.
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Trump's Stonewalling of Impeachment Inquiry Is an Impeachable Offense Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Ever since a whistleblower alleged that President Trump is using the power of his office to solicit interference from Ukraine in the 2020 election, the White House has engaged in a cover-up -- a quintessential example of obstruction of justice, which is an impeachable offense. Republicans have the votes in the Senate to dismiss the case after impeachment by the House, but they will have to answer to public opinion, which increasingly favors impeachment.
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How a Tech Firm Helped Power One of the Largest Workplace Raids in ICE History Jack Herrera, Truthout In August, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended on seven chicken processing plants in rural Mississippi, detaining more than 680 people. New documents reveal that the secretive data firm, Palantir Technologies, provided software used in a years-long investigation that led to possibly the largest ICE raid ever to take place in a single state.
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