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It's Not Just Trump: New Report Details How Greed of 'Border-Industrial Complex' Fuels Militarization and Abuse

As seen through fencing, migrants—including a young child—stand while being detained by Department of Homeland Security police after crossing to the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border barrier, on June 27, 2019 in El Paso, Texas.

Warren Rolls Out Plan She Calls 'Most Sweeping Set of Anti-Corruption Reforms Since Watergate'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

The White House hopeful says her proposed reforms would put power "back where it belongs—in the hands of the people."

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Sanders Responds to Biden's Praise for Pharma Companies: 'Their Behavior Is Literally Killing People Every Day'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"America needs a president who isn't going to appease and compliment drug...

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Industry Coalition Launches Seven-Figure Ad Blitz to Flood Democratic Debate With Attacks on Medicare for All

Jake Johnson, staff writer

David Sirota, speechwriter for Sen. Bernie Sanders's campaign, said the ad...

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Healthcare Ad Spending Exceeds $65 Million in 2019 as Insurance Industry Ramps Up Effort to Kill Medicare for All

Because 'Everything Is on Fire,' Nearly 1,000 Amazon Workers Pledge to Walk Out and Join Global Climate Strike on Sept. 20

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'A Major Step Forward': Multi-State Probe Targets Facebook's Possible Antitrust Violations

'Getting Angry on Social Media Not Enough': Thousands Across 6 Continents Mobilize to Combat Destruction of Amazon Rainforest

Danielle Greene and Jennifer Vassil attend a rally

Over 120 Groups Call on Congress to Back Constitutional Amendment Overturning Citizens United

'That Corruption Needs to End': Biden Urged to Cancel Fundraiser With Fossil Fuel Exec Day After Climate Crisis Forum

'Always About the Con': Ocasio-Cortez Says 'Virtually Every' Trump Policy Designed to Loot Public Coffers and Enrich His Cronies

Watch Dying Activist Ady Barkan's "Heartfelt" and "Moving" Conversation With Bernie Sanders on the Fight for Medicare for All

Mobilizing Thousands for Labor Day Actions Across US, Sanders Touts 'Organizer-in-Chief' Model to Combat Corporate Assault on Workers

Happy Labor Day: Trump Floats Tax Cut Called 'Pure Giveaway to Wealthy'

Despite 'Relentless' Assault by Corporate America, Gallup Poll Shows Support for Unions at Near 50-Year High

'Committed to Disruptive, Transformative Change': Ben & Jerry's, Lush, and Patagonia Among Companies to Pledge Support for Global Climate Strike

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On Hillary, Lloyd, Us and Them

For those puzzled by the rancor and mistrust so many feel for Hillary Clinton, a lucid Matt Taibbi looks at Clinton's $675,000 speeches to Goldman Sachs to reveal they're about not just money but allegiance. Turns out Clinton declared that "banker-bashing (was) foolish," it takes a village to get out of a financial crisis (in fact caused by a few greedy oligarchs), and public anger is something "we" - oligarchs and Clintons - need to wait out.

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Common Cause

FCC Approval of Nexstar-Tribune Ignores Public Interest Harms and Turns Blind Eye Toward Citizen Participation in Merger Proceedings

Transnational Institute (TNI)

U.S. Border Militarization Driven By Arms And Security Industry Rather Than Trump, Argues New Report

Public Citizen

FTC’s Paltry Google / YouTube Fine Shows the Agency Is Incapable of Protecting Kids

Global Justice Now

G7: Boris Johnson to Put Britain on Path to Devastating Trade Deal With Trump

Demand Progress

Demand Progress Education Fund: Business Roundtable’s Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds

Global Justice Now

Approval of Armenian Gold Mine Shows Corporate Courts ‘Crush Democracy’

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Ralph Nader

Avalanche-Level Liar Trump Learned Art of Deception From the Pros: US Corporations

Jim Hightower

Why Would We Trust Plutocrats to Save Us From Plutocracy?

Negin Owliaei, Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson

Activists Follow the Money Fueling Amazon Fires

Joshua Cho

Biden Invokes Dead Family Members Against Medicare for All and Corporate Media Plays Along

William Minter

Corporations Getting to Zero With GOP's Inside Help on Tax Avoidance

Ralph Nader

Chuck Todd, Labor Day, and Getting Serious

Diane Ravitch

The Walton Family Plot to Privatize the Public Schools of Arkansas

Jim Hightower

Here's the Real Deal on 'Medicare for All'

Juan Cole

Failing Breitbart Comes for Juan Cole on Climate History and It Won’t Go Well

Mathew Lawrence

The Financial Times Is Right—Labour’s Ownership Funds Will Transfer Wealth and Power