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News & Views | 10/4/21
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US Denounced as 'Biggest Peddler of Financial Secrecy' After Pandora Papers Leak
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by Jake Johnson
"U.S. President Biden must match his own rhetoric on shutting down
global illicit finance, and start with the biggest offender—his own
country."
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Megarich Democratic Donor Says 'Tax Rich People Like Me' or He's Done With the Party
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by Andrea Germanos
To "Democrats in Congress who know me and ask me for money continually,"
he says: "Pass the Biden infrastructure plan or never ask again. Ever."
Global Religious Leaders, Scientists Issue Joint Call for 'Radical' Climate Action
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by Jessica Corbett
"It's really quite unprecedented, isn't it, for so many faith leaders to
come together in this way."
'Tear It Down': Climate Campaigners Arrested Outside New England's Last Coal Plant
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by Andrea Germanos
"We came to shut this coal plant down and build a better future!"
'Milestone Moment' for Labor as 98% of Major TV-Film Union Votes to Strike
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by Julia Conley
"Exactly the kind of mass-movement organizing we need right now," said
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the move by IATSE members.
A Year and 3.5 Million Deaths Later, 'Greed Is Triumphing Over Human Life' in Vaccine Fight
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by Jake Johnson
"How many more people must die needlessly before countries do the right
thing and support the lifting of patent restrictions, so Covid-19
vaccines, tests, and treatments can be produced worldwide?"
Top Democrat Says Postal Banking Pilot Is 'Welcome,' But DeJoy Must Still Be Fired
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by Andrea Germanos
"The future of USPS depends on implementing postal banking," said Rep.
Bill Pascrell.
'System Is Blinking Red': Experts Condemn Facebook's Profit-Seeking Algorithms
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by Kenny Stancil
"How many more insurrections have to happen before we hold Facebook to
account?" one group asked after whistleblower Frances Haugen said the
corporation is unwilling to confront hate speech and disinformation.
Cori Bush Among Advocates Demanding Clemency for Ernest Lee Johnson Ahead of Scheduled Execution
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by Julia Conley
"The fact of the matter is that these death sentences are not about
justice. They are about who has institutional power and who doesn't."
To Lower Bill's Price Tag, Says AOC, Shorten Duration But Don't Gut Programs
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by Jake Johnson
"I think it's unfortunate that we have to compromise with ourselves for
an ambitious agenda for working people," said Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez.
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When Will the US Acknowledge its Secret Torture Site in Poland?
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by Raymond Bonner
Abu Zubaydah has been a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay for 15 years. He's
asking the Supreme Court to allow his lawyers to depose the two men who
oversaw his torture.
50 Years Later, Finally Justice for Brazil's Indigenous Krenak People
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by Shanna Hanbury
"Justice, however slow, is being served," said Indigenous chief Geovani
Krenak. "The spirit of our assassinated warriors, like my grandfather,
welcomes this decision."
Michael Albert's 'No Bosses': A Review by Mark Evans
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by Mark Evans
The left is suffering from a crisis of identity, a crisis over the
meaning of what, historically, has been its official alternative to
liberalism.
5 Key Things to Know About the Pandora Papers
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by Chuck Collins
These disclosures about the how the world's wealthy and powerful hide
their vast fortunes will hopefully turn up the heat on the politicians
that maintain the wealth-hiding status quo.
Climate Crisis: Failure Is Not an Option on Reconciliation
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by Erika Spanger-Siegfried
Our failure to pass this test doesn't mean failing a class, it means—and
this is not hyperbole—an end to the world as you and I know it.
From Empire to Global Oligarchy, Pandora Papers Expose UK's Insidious Capitalism
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by Adam Ramsay
In an era of global surveillance capitalism, the rich can flit around
the world with their vast fortunes while the rest of us are forever
trapped by borders.
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Newswire...
Sunrise Movement and Progressive Groups Protest at Senator Sinema’s Private Fundraiser For Failing Them
Sunrise Movement
Catastrophic Huntington Beach Oil Spill Highlights Perils of New Drill Permits
Food & Water Watch
IMF Urges Wealthy Countries to Send COVID Aid to Poor Countries
Jubilee USA Network
New Facebook Whistleblower Shines Light on Algorithmic Harms. The Solution Is Privacy Legislation That Makes Facebook’s Surveillance Driven Business Model Illegal.
Fight for the Future
At Week-Long White House Protest, Americans to Demand Biden Halt Fossil Fuel Projects
Food & Water Watch
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