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The 40-year con of trickle-down Reaganomics: Why Republican’s toxic class warfare only spreads poverty

The 40-year con of trickle-down Reaganomics: Why Republican’s toxic class warfare only spreads poverty

Posted by | Jul 14, 2021

America has to reinvent our understanding of economics after 40 years of living under a tax-cutting, austerity-imposing, Republican-promoted trickle-down Reaganomics scam and return to a Keynesian system that still works in those countries like Norway, New Zealand or Denmark that never adopted “austerity.” The core idea of Reaganomics is that if we give huge tax cuts and multi-billion-dollar subsidies to billionaires and giant corporations, that will “incentivize” these “job creators” to expand the economy and raise prosperity all around for everybody. In fact, all those giant corporations and billionaires have done is put all that cash in their money...

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The greed of fossil fuel: An opposition to clean energy that can grow the economy and save our future

The greed of fossil fuel: An opposition to clean energy that can grow the economy and save our future

Posted by | Jul 12, 2021 |

Florida governor Ron DeSantis became the latest Republican governor to sign a bill making it harder for citizens to shift away from the fossil fuels that are changing the climate. The move came after Miami, which is in danger as sea levels rise, proposed cutting carbon emissions by banning natural gas infrastructure in new buildings. The bill was written by lawyers for utility companies, based on a pattern written by the American Gas Association. Lobbyists for the Florida Petroleum Association, the Florida Natural Gas Association and the Florida Retail Federation, the Florida Home Builders Association, and the National Utility...

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Big Oil’s dirty secrets: Petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil fuels

Big Oil’s dirty secrets: Petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil fuels

Posted by | Jul 12, 2021 |

After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes. An unprecedented wave of lawsuits, filed by cities and states across the US, aim to hold the oil and gas industry to account for the environmental devastation caused by fossil fuels – and covering up what they knew along the way. Coastal cities struggling to keep rising sea levels at bay, midwestern states watching “mega-rains” destroy crops and homes, and fishing communities losing catches to warming waters, are now demanding the oil conglomerates pay...

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From 2001 to 2021: The military mission of the United States in Afghanistan will finally end on August 31

From 2001 to 2021: The military mission of the United States in Afghanistan will finally end on August 31

Posted by | Jul 11, 2021 |

On July 8, President Joe Biden announced that the military mission of the United States in Afghanistan will end on August 31. We have been in that country for almost 20 years and have lost 2448 troops and personnel. Another 20,722 Americans have been wounded. Estimates of civilian deaths range from 35,000 to 40,000. The mission has cost more than a trillion dollars. Leaving Afghanistan brings up just how much the world has changed in the past two decades. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan a month after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 — which killed almost 3000 people...

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Democracy watchdog cites 14th Amendment in effort to ban insurrectionist lawmakers from public office

Democracy watchdog cites 14th Amendment in effort to ban insurrectionist lawmakers from public office

Posted by | Jul 11, 2021

Calling on election officials across the U.S. to recognize that the nation “is at a critical crossroads,” a non-profit legal advocacy group on June 30 cited the 14th Amendment as it demanded Republicans who aided the January 6 insurrection—including former President Donald Trump—be barred from holding public office in the future. The democracy watchdog Free Speech for People sent letters to the secretaries of state of all 50 states as part of its 14point3 campaign, calling attention to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which states: No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of...

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Six Months after Capitol Attack: Insurrectionists continue to embrace the Big Lie for political gain

Six Months after Capitol Attack: Insurrectionists continue to embrace the Big Lie for political gain

Posted by | Jul 10, 2021 |

Six months ago, rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, intending to stop the counting of the certified ballots that would make Joseph R. Biden president and Kamala Harris vice president. This attack was unprecedented. It broke our nation’s long history of the peaceful transfer of power. You know the story of that day. Former president Donald Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election, insisting that he had lost only because the election had been “stolen” from him, despite Biden’s decisive victory of more than 7 million votes and 74 electoral votes. He urged...

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