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Opinion | Like FDR, Biden Should Welcome Special Interests Hatred
"If Biden is successful in enacting a bold Build Back Better package, he will cement his place in history. Future historians will explain that Biden effectively built on Roosevelt's legacy in important and ambitious ways." ...[Read more]
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Socialist India Walton Faces Treacherous Path in Buffalo Despite Court Victory
Elements of Buffalo, New York’s political establishment and business interests are intent on making it as difficult as possible for Democratic nominee and socialist India Walton to take mayoral office in November. From waves of suspiciously timed opposi ...[Read more]
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Bernie Sanders Blasts Conservative Democrats for Siding With Big Pharma
After the vote, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, came out swinging. Declaring that “the pharmaceutical industry owns the Republican Party and that no Republican voted for this bill,” Sanders went on to say that, � ...[Read more]
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Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”
According to the former president, Americans are now experiencing “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” ...[Read more]
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Meet the Consulting Firm That’s Staffing the Biden Administration
From its headquarters just blocks from the White House, a small, high-powered team of former ambassadors, lawyers, and Obama appointees has spent the past few years solving problems for the world’s biggest companies. Less than six months into the Biden ...[Read more]
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Revealed: ExxonMobil’s lobbying war on climate change legislation
The explosive footage was obtained by Unearthed, Greenpeace UK’s investigative platform, who posed as head-hunters to obtain the information from one of ExxonMobil’s most senior Washington lobbyists. The recordings appear to reveal the secretive behi ...[Read more]
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Opposing PRO Act, Uber and Other Gig Companies Spend Over $1 Million Lobbying Congress
Even as President Joe Biden called for Congress during his joint address last week to pass labor reform legislation, a slate of gig companies has spent over $1 million lobbying Congress to influence the PRO Act and other related issues in 2021 alone, acco ...[Read more]
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A pesticide linked to brain damage in children could finally be banned
A federal appeals court has ruled that unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove that the pesticide chlorpyrifos is safe, it must be banned. The chemical, which has been widely used on agricultural crops for more than 50 years, has been l ...[Read more]
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Hollywood Lobbyists Intervene Against Proposal to Share Vaccine Technology
Many industries across the U.S. have expressed alarm over the proposed waiver, which was put forth by a coalition of over 100 countries, led by India and South Africa, and would waive intellectual property rules in order to boost production of vaccines, m ...[Read more]
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CVS Health quietly donated a staggering amount to a dark money group advocating against health care access
Last year, as the United States was ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, CVS Health donated a staggering amount of money to a dark money group that advocated for limiting health care access. According to The Intercept, CVS Health which also owns the healt ...[Read more]
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Jayapal, House Dems Propose Constitutional Amendment to End Corporate Personhood
The Washington Democrat said the proposed amendment "ends corporate constitutional rights, reverses Citizens United, and ensures that our democracy is really of the people, by the people—not corporations." ...[Read more]
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