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Robert Reich | Make Polluters Pay Us
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Instead of investing in dirty fuels, let's start charging polluters for poisoning our skies - and then invest the revenue so that it benefits everyone. Each ton of carbon that's released into the atmosphere costs our nation between $40 and $100, and we release millions tons of it every year."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Instead of investing in dirty fuels, let's start charging polluters for poisoning our skies - and then invest the revenue so that it benefits everyone. Each ton of carbon that's released into the atmosphere costs our nation between $40 and $100, and we release millions tons of it every year."
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Bernie Sanders: On Pushing Hillary Clinton to Take a Stand
Susan Page and Bernie Sanders, USA Today
Page writes: "No one was more surprised than Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by his strong showing in a Wisconsin Democratic straw poll over the weekend: 41%, just 8 percentage points behind front-runner Hillary Clinton."
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Susan Page and Bernie Sanders, USA Today
Page writes: "No one was more surprised than Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by his strong showing in a Wisconsin Democratic straw poll over the weekend: 41%, just 8 percentage points behind front-runner Hillary Clinton."
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Amy Davidson | Dennis Hastert's Plea, and His Silence
Amy Davidson, The New Yorker
Davidson writes: "Hastert has said nothing about the allegations underlying the indictment; namely, that he'd broken the laws while assembling three and a half million dollars to "compensate for and conceal" past misconduct against someone identified as "Individual A."
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Amy Davidson, The New Yorker
Davidson writes: "Hastert has said nothing about the allegations underlying the indictment; namely, that he'd broken the laws while assembling three and a half million dollars to "compensate for and conceal" past misconduct against someone identified as "Individual A."
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Big Wins for the People Who Clean Our Homes and Care for Our Children
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Covert writes: "Last week, domestic workers - those who care for children and clean inside people's homes - won two surprise victories securing more rights in Connecticut and Oregon."
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Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Covert writes: "Last week, domestic workers - those who care for children and clean inside people's homes - won two surprise victories securing more rights in Connecticut and Oregon."
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Coca-Cola Slowly Deprives 30,000 People of Water in El Salvador
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The main and only source of water for thousands of Salvadorans is in peril."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "The main and only source of water for thousands of Salvadorans is in peril."
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US-Funded Afghan Police Prey on Civilians
Graeme Smith, Reuters
Smith writes: "One band of Afghan gunmen tied up a captive in an open field, picked up rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and used the victim for target practice."
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Graeme Smith, Reuters
Smith writes: "One band of Afghan gunmen tied up a captive in an open field, picked up rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and used the victim for target practice."
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Monsanto, The World's Largest Seed Company, Wants to Buy Syngenta, the World's Largest Pesticide Company
Dan Charles, NPR
Charles writes: "Selling seeds and pesticides used to be a sleepy, slow-moving business. That was, until about 20 years ago, when the chemical company Monsanto introduced genetically modified crops and started buying up seed companies."
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Dan Charles, NPR
Charles writes: "Selling seeds and pesticides used to be a sleepy, slow-moving business. That was, until about 20 years ago, when the chemical company Monsanto introduced genetically modified crops and started buying up seed companies."
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