All News Articles for 2019-08-30
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After Man Serves 35 Years in Prison for $50 Robbery, US 'Should Be Ashamed of System We Allow' "Wealthy CEOs and business executives steal millions of dollars from the public and never go to jail." Read more |
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Just Ahead of Labor Day, Trump Floats Tax Cut Condemned as 'Pure Giveaway to Wealthy' "Apart from just sending millionaires checks, it's hard to think of a tax cut more targeted to the ultra-rich." Read more |
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"Scariest Thing You'll Read All Day": Report Sounds Alarm Over Brain-Reading Technology and Neurocapitalism "Your brain, the final privacy frontier, may not be private much longer." Read more |
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Tipping Point: UN Biodiversity Chief Warns Burning of Amazon Could Lead to 'Cascading Collapse of Natural Systems' "If we don't work together, we are going to die together." Read more |
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"Don't Just Watch Us. Join Us," Say Activists, as Greta Thunberg Joins Climate Strike Outside UN Headquarters Swedish teen continues weekly school strike for climate, for the first time on this side of the Atlantic Read more |
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'Be Given Our Stolen Time Back?': Trump Once Again Signals Desire to Illegally Extend Term The president's so-called "jokes" about serving longer than his elected term, said one critic, "aren't funny anymore." Read more |
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'If Environment Were a Bank,' Says Bernie Sanders, 'It Would Have Been Saved Already' Sanders has introduced a $16.3 trillion Green New Deal plan to avert climate catastrophe and create 20 million jobs in the process Read more |
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Open Letter From College Professors Urges Educators Worldwide to Cancel Class, Join Global Climate Strike "We risk losing credibility with an entire generation of students if we cannot take action in support of the defining cause of their generation." Read more |
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House Democrats Denounce DHS For Blocking Lawmakers' Access to Detention Centers Amid Reports of Rampant Abuse "This is definitely how you act when you have nothing to hide. Totally." Read more |
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Blasting Laura Ingraham as 'Neo-Nazi Fan Favorite,' Ocasio-Cortez Says Twitter Users Entitled to Vile Opinions But Not Abuse "People are free to speak whatever classist, racist, false, misogynistic, bigoted comments they'd like. They do not have the right to force others to endure their harassment and abuse." Read more |
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United Electrical Becomes First US Industrial Union to Endorse Green New Deal and Global Climate Strike The 35,000-member union called the transformative proposal "our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of good union jobs." Read more |