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Progressives: We’ve Never Heard Of This “Progressive” Group Backing Obama’s Trade Deal
The “Progressive Coalition For American Jobs,” run by former Obama campaign staffers, purports to represent the progressive left on the trade deal that the progressive left hates.
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Wealth ‘creators’ are robbing our most productive people
Lives are being trashed by klepto-remuneration: theft through excess rewards to rapacious bosses
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Company Eight
The true story of one man’s quest to reform firefighting in America.
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Seeking Hillary’s Favor: Dyson Attacks Cornel West
By Glen Ford
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Elizabeth Warren on Obama's trade deal: "He won't put the facts out there"
In dueling MSNBC segments, Elizabeth Warren and President Obama call each other out over the president's massive Asia trade deal.
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Give ’Em Hell, Bernie
Bernie Sanders is more serious than you think. By Matt Taibbi.
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The Case That Blew the Lid Off the World Bank’s Secret Courts
How Bolivian protesters and global activists exposed the dark side of global trade pacts and paved the way for the battles to come.
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Stiglitz, De Blasio and Warren team up against inequality
Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Laureate in economics, has teamed up with New York Major Bill De Blasio and US Senator Elizabeth Warren to propose a major economic reform agenda for the US. Its focus: Reducing inequality.
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Progressive frenemies
Democratic centrists and populists aren’t as far apart as they think.
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Upscale white supremacists built our world. We have to uncover their legacy to dismantle it. By David Neal.
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Party Pooper Bernie Sanders Rides Political Independence to New Heights
As he climbs in the presidential polls, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is demonstrating that a politician without a party can achieve success. All the victories Sanders has scored to date — four in Burlington mayoral races, eight in contests for the U.S. House and two in U.S. Senate elections — have occurred outside the traditional two-party system.
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It’s Not Just the Drug War
Progressive narratives about what’s driving mass incarceration don’t quite add up. By Marie Gottschalk.
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Language, Policed: The Monster of Bad Spelling
And the newspaper that led a movement for a more accessible language. By Annie Abrams.
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“Neoliberalism” is it?
What are we talking about exactly, and why is this causing so much discussion? By Jeremy Fox.
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Adolph Reed on Sanders, Coates and Reparations
Interview segment from Doug Henwood‘s Behind the News, 1/21/16.
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An Open Letter to Rep. John Lewis
Representative Lewis, Yesterday, you stated the following about Bernie Sanders’s record on fighting for civil rights in the 1960s... Sincerely, Douglas Williams. (Feb. 12)
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The issue is not Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street links but her party’s core dogmas
The Democratic party decisively rejected the legacy of the New Deal and its stress on working-class Americans in favour of a technocratic elite. By Thomas Frank.
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President Hillary Clinton Will Destroy America and Ruin Everything You Love
To be fair, there is a lot to Hillary Clinton. Hillarys Clinton, even. In all her positions she has been substantial and serious. Donald Trump may be a traveling show steamrolling through town, but Clinton has had a recurring gig in American law and politics since before the days of Richard Nixon... By Lucy Steigerwald.
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Bernie Sanders is the Worst Presidential Candidate in History, and You and All Your Friends are Idiots
Every possibly objection to Bernie Sanders, now in one convenient location. By Shane Ryan.
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Dismissing Bernie’s Supporters as “a Mob” and the Great Recession as No Big Deal
In an unintentionally hilarious piece evincing exceptional moral blindness, Mr. [Larry] Womack, a journalist, writes to Bernie: “Senator, you are forming a mob of angry, misinformed people and then turning it on the likely Democratic nominee. That, Senator, is a dangerous and destructive game. Does your campaign honestly wonder why it has become synonymous with nasty online invective?” Gosh... By William K. Black.
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