From CommonDreamsFor Immediate Release Wednesday, November 25, 2020Organization Profile: Institute for Policy StudiesContact: Chuck Collins, Chuck@ips-dc.orgBob Keener, Bobk@ips-dc.org US Billionaires Surpass $1 Trillion in Wealth Gains During Pandemic as Essential Workers and Others Suffer WASHINGTON - The total wealth gain of America’s billionaires … [Read more...] about US Billionaires Surpass $1 Trillion in Wealth Gains During Pandemic as Essential Workers and Others Suffer
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Opposition to Ernie Moniz and Fossil Fuel Appointments Intensifies
From CommonDreamsWASHINGTON - A broad coalition of climate, progressive, and environmental justice groups are engaged in an all-out push to keep former Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz out of the Biden Administration, because of Moniz’s extensive ties to the fossil fuel and nuclear industries, retrograde views on climate policy, and outright hostility towards … [Read more...] about Opposition to Ernie Moniz and Fossil Fuel Appointments Intensifies
To Prevent 'Another Right-Wing Authoritarian' Even Worse Than Trump, Sanders Says Democrats Must Pursue Bold Working Class Agenda
From CommonDreamsWarning that a failure to deliver real material gains to the U.S. working class could lay the groundwork for another "right-wing authoritarian" to seize power in 2024, Sen. Bernie Sanders is imploring the leadership of the Democratic Party and the incoming Biden administration to aggressively pursue an agenda that confronts powerful special … [Read more...] about To Prevent 'Another Right-Wing Authoritarian' Even Worse Than Trump, Sanders Says Democrats Must Pursue Bold Working Class Agenda
Joe Biden Is Filling His Cabinet With Pro-War Hawks
From JacobinThere was no reason to think that a Biden administration would be to the left of the Obama administration when it comes to foreign policy. Biden comes with a long political career of supporting the wars of the United States and its allies, from … [Read more...] about Joe Biden Is Filling His Cabinet With Pro-War Hawks
Kshama Sawant: Democrats and the Right Are Attacking Me — And Left Movements Everywhere
From JacobinBig business, the right wing, and now the courts have rung the bell on what is now the fourth round of the … [Read more...] about Kshama Sawant: Democrats and the Right Are Attacking Me — And Left Movements Everywhere