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Corporate Power

To Build Party That Fights for People, 'Not Big Corporate Donors,' Campaign Pushes Pelosi to Put Progressives on Key Committees

On Tax Scam Anniversary, Paul Ryan Promotes Documentary Hailing His Crowning Achievement: 'Handing Rich People Truckloads of Money'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Imagine what kind of person's childhood dreams involve giving massive tax breaks to billionaires and large corporations."

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With Friday Deadline, These 16 House Dems About to Go Down in History for Helping GOP Kill Internet as We Know It

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Any rep who doesn't sign is making it clear that they don't really support net...

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COP24 Organizers Accused of Censoring Climate Campaigners While Letting Pro-Fossil Fuel Message Flourish

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A young person sporting a #ClimateStrike shirt at the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland on Friday holds up her hands to display a message: "My Future in Your Hands."

New reporting by Agence France-Presse shows U.N. organizers asked for "dirty...

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Quoting Dr. Seuss, Court Throws Out Pipeline Permit and Implores Forest Service to 'Speak for the Trees' Instead of Corporate Polluters

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Borrowing From Big Tobacco's Playbook, Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder for Decades: Reuters

'Good First Step' as DeVos Forced to Cancel $150M in Student Loan Debt for Thousands Scammed by For-Profit Schools

"You're Worth $1 Trillion. Why Do You Need Our $3 Billion?" Angry New Yorkers Confront Amazon Execs at Council Meeting

'Complete Wiping Away of Clean Water Act': Trump EPA Rule Would Free Corporations to Pollute Nation's Water as Much as They Please

'Lobbyists Here. Goldman Sachs Here. Where's Labor? Activists?' Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez Pull Back Curtain on Corporate-Sponsored Orientation

With Power to Kneecap Bold Demand, Incoming Democratic Tax Committee Chair Says Medicare for All 'Not Realistic'

"We're putting these congress members on notice and sending a clear message: The internet never forgets," declared Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future. (Photo: Fight for the Future)

With Net Neutrality Deadline Days Away, These 18 Democrats Still Siding With Telecom Donors Over Open Internet

To Advance Bold Progressive Policies, Ocasio-Cortez Takes on Wall Street Democrat for Seat on Key Tax Committee

In 'Craven' Bait-and-Switch Attack on Workers, Michigan GOP Guts Minimum Wage and Sick Leave Proposals

Labor leader Roseann DeMoro, former executive director of National Nurses United, during a panel discussion titled, "The Labor Movement: Essential to Democracy" at The Sanders Institute Gathering on Saturday. (Photo: Screengrab/The Sanders Institute Gathering)

With Workers Under Attack, Labor Leaders Say Only 'Full-Throated Economic Populism' Can Defeat Corporate Elites

"Medicare for All promises a system that is fairer, more efficient, and vastly less expensive than America's bloated, monopolized, over-priced and under-performing private health insurance system," argued Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs. (Photo: Will Allen / @willallenphoto)

'Easy to Pay for Something That Costs Less': Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5 Trillion Over Ten Years

Further

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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Amnesty International

Crowdsourced Twitter Study Reveals Shocking Scale of Online Abuse Against Women

Patriotic Millionaires

GM Layoffs Caused by "The Failure of the Trump Economy"...

Not One Penny

GM Cutting Workforce, Closing Factories After Getting $514 Million Windfall from GOP Tax Law

MoveOn.org

MoveOn Sends Letter to Facebook Leaders in Response to Definers News, Other Concerns

Freedom From Facebook

Freedom From Facebook Files Legal Complaint with the FTC Against Facebook

Color of Change

Facebook Must Answer For Dangerous Embrace of Anti-Semitism, Racist Targeting of Color Of Change

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Jackie Smith, Caitlin Schroering

Global Peasant Declaration Represents Huge Advance for Human Rights

Sam Pizzigati

Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change?

Wendell Potter

Take It From Me: Tweaks Won't Fix Healthcare

Mike Lofgren

The Bad Ideas-Industrial Complex

Scott Klinger

Why Do Our Schools Seem Broke?

Robert Reich

Trump Takes on General Motors (And Guess Who Wins?)

Norman Solomon

What It Means That Hillary Clinton Might Run for President in 2020

Sam Pizzigati

GM, Jobs, and Corporate America’s Incentive to Exploit

Russell Mokhiber

Banned From Newspapers for Criticizing... Newspapers! Jim Hightower Up Against the Corporate Wall

Les Leopold

Do the Democrats Have a Plan for General Motors?

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