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For the Democrats, Moving Further to the Right Is Not the Solution
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Al From is worried that his Democratic Leadership Council strategies will be relegated to the "scrapheap of history." They certainly should be.
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Jim Hightower: A Political Party Worth Joining
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Coal Country Trump Voters Afraid of Losing Obamacare
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Texas Wineries Worry EPA Approval of Monsanto, Dow Herbicides Will "Kill" Industry
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House Republicans Dive Into the Swamp
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Civil Rights Activists Arrested for Protest Over Jeff Sessions as Attorney General
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Tillerson and Exxon Part Ways With $180 Million Retirement Package
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Fox News Offered Megyn Kelly $100 Million Package to Stay
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[Three Activist Victories That Flew Under the Radar Over the Holidays]
Mike Ludwig, Truthout:Â There were three reasons to celebrate a little this winter holiday -- a court order favoring Flint residents who have no access to safe drinking water; a Portland City Council decision to temporarily halt corporate investments under pressure from divestment activists; and a defense bill amendment aimed at reducing military pollution.
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[Bank the Furnace: Melting the New Gilded Age]
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:Â Maybe, just maybe, the reason why people of great means and power spend so much time and money trying to undermine our enumerated rights is because the existence of those rights, even as a rag under glass in a marble building, is actively dangerous to their desires.
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[No Peace to Keep: The UN Is Letting Down Civilians in South Sudan]
Caitlyn OFlaherty, Truthout:Â The failure of UN peacekeeping forces to stop atrocities against civilians in South Sudan last July was one more example of the UN's fundamentally inadequate peacekeeping philosophy. A culture of impunity pervades the UN forces, which dwell in silos and answer to different -- and often contradictory -- masters.
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[Rick Perry's Texas Giveaways]
Alec MacGillis, ProPublica:Â The soon-to-be US energy secretary doled out billions in grants and tax incentives for corporations while governor of Texas. One $30 million grant went to an energy group that turned out to be a phantom.
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[As a Trump Administration Approaches, Cities Gear Up for Resistance]
Sally Neas, YES! Magazine:Â President-elect Trump's campaign offers little hope that activists, women, people of color, low-wage workers, Muslims, immigrants and those who identify as LGBTQ will find protection in federal policies. In the years to come, community bills of rights are one strategy for cities across the nation to continue to shelter such populations.
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[Will Obama's Offshore Drilling Ban Be Trumped?]
Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation:Â President Obama gave environmental advocates a Christmas present when he announced in late December that he was banning oil and gas drilling in huge swaths of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. A close reading of the law suggests that it could be difficult to undo, much to Republicans' dismay.
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[Keep Your Cash: Civil Asset Forfeiture Curtailed Under New California Law]
Lynne Lyman, AlterNet:Â Civil asset forfeiture has allowed the government to seize and keep cash, cars, real estate and any other property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even if the owner is never convicted of a crime. However, new legislation in California is changing that.
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[New Trump Immigration Memo Revives Call for Obama to Pardon All Undocumented Immigrants, Extend DACA]
Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!: A newly revealed memo from President-elect Donald Trump's transition team sheds light on his plans to reverse immigration policies put in place by the Obama administration. Democracy Now! speaks to Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona and César Zamudio, a freshman at Columbia University who is an undocumented immigrant and a recipient of DACA.
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[How Minnesota Public Employees Stood Up for Paid Parental Leave]
Joan Treichel, Steph Meyer and Johanna Schussler, Labor Notes:Â Many unions agonize over how to get young workers involved. The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees did it with a fight over an issue that mattered to younger members -- paid parental leave.
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[Mexican Gas Price Hike Kicks Off 2017 With Protests, Economic Anxiety]
Shannon Young, Free Speech Radio News:Â Demonstrators beat pots and pans in Oaxaca City on Monday to protest a 20 percent hike in the price of gasoline. Pot-banging is a form of protest associated with economic crisis in Latin America -- a metaphor for the difficulty of putting food on the table.
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