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Sen. Bernie Sanders: Supreme Court Undermines Democracy by Allowing Billionaires To “Buy Elections”
Amy Goodman speaks to Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont about Wednesday's landmark decision in McCutcheon v. FEC and his fight to remove big money from the electoral process.
Hopkins Hospital Workers Speak Out Against “Poverty Wages”
Jaisal Noor talks to workers at Baltimore's internationally renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital as they prepare for a possible strike in order to obtain a $15 hourly wage.
Noam Chomsky: Ecology, Ethics, Anarchism
Chomsky talks about how indigenous peoples are trying to save the world from anthropogenic climate disruption and the havoc being wrought by “really existing capitalist democracies.”
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The Butterfly Effect: Do Monarchs’ Woes Signal Broader Problems?
The great monarch migration is in peril, a victim of rampant herbicide use in faraway corn and soybean fields, extreme weather, a tiny microbial pathogen and deforestation. Monarch butterfly …
Hijacking the American Plane of State: Old Scripts and Empty Stories Signal a New Age
If you want a news story that will glue eyes, then think of it this way: on September 12, 2001, the national security state entered the cockpit of the …
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Nomi Prins | The Real Vice-President of the United States Is Wall Street
In “All the Presidents' Bankers” Wall Street journalist Nomi Prins writes a painstakingly researched history of the financial industry's collusion with the White House to create a self-serving US …
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Changing Our Climate of Indifference
Climate change is causing real-time crises in countries around the world, but nothing is being done about it.
UN Climate Panel Issues Dire Warning of Threat to Global Food Supply, Calls for Action and Adaption
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its most dire warning yet about how greenhouse gases have driven up global temperatures and extreme weather, while threatening …
Oil Lobby Spent $56.3 Million in Sacramento Over Past Five Years
A new chart released by Stop Fooling California reveals that the oil industry, including the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron, BP and other oil companies, spent $56.63 million on …
US Falling Emissions a Mirage: Offshoring and Fracking
Just switching to a fuel source that purportedly creates less carbon dioxide such as natural gas does not necessarily produce a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.