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Richard Trumka: Widening income inequality threatens democracy worldwide
June 9, 2017“In a world of global corporations and big data, of Nissan and Uber, collective power is the only form of empowerment that actually exists for ordinary people.”
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Needed: Clean environment and good jobs—or we’ll have neither!
June 9, 2017Some viewed pollution as a blessing, a harbinger of jobs. Air that tasted of sulfur signified paychecks. But it meant early death.
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Trump names BP oil spill lawyer as top environmental attorney
June 8, 2017The nominee defended BP in lawsuits surrounding the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and challenged the Obama administration over greenhouse gas rules.
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Who’ll take San Onofre’s nuclear trash?
June 8, 2017To paraphrase Carl Sagan, we know who speaks for the nuclear industry. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for the Earth?
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Cuba’s National Assembly adjusts socialist model to a changing world
June 8, 2017The legislature has just met to discuss the renovation of Cuban socialism. Castro vows to "change everything that must be changed."
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