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Opinion: Amazon, Starbucks, and Other U.S. Workers Fight the Putins at Home, While Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy Rages On
We need to recognize the role of labor and collective organizing in achieving democracy.
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The Right Melts Down Into Deranged Conspiracies After Jeff Bezos Donates $100 Million To The Obama Foundation
The right is claiming that Bezos’s donation is part of a conspiracy that involves money laundering, the Post Office, and Jeffrey Epstein.
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Amazon Workers Allowed to Re-Vote for a Union After Corporate Interference
A National Labor relations Board (NLRB) hearing officer determined Amazon’s interference in the election warrants another vote.
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Opinion: Why Defending Democracy Means Taking on “Amazons” of America
We need large organizations that bring people and their power together to insist that people matter and deserve a voice in shaping the world in which we live—in short, in recognizing people’s equality.
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Opinion: To Really Save Democracy, Democrats Must Rally Behind Biden’s Labor Advocacy
On the whole, as a culture, we don’t speak much of the nation’s failure to extend democracy and civil rights to workers, tending to prioritize the rights of private property and capital
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Opinion: Representation Without Taxation: How Traditional and Current GOP Policies Undermine America and Democracy
Traditional Republican policies do not put country over party but rather turn back the clock on the American Revolution.
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Leaked IRS Data Shows Just How Much the Wealthy Are Ripping Us Off
For the past four decades, this country has slogged under a system promoting the discredited theory that if we give more tax breaks to rich people, they will generously dole out more to the rest of us, and the country will be more prosperous.
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Sanders: Bezos is Afraid of Workers Unionizing Because They Would “Take on His Greed”
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is afraid of his workers unionzing because they would “take on his greed.” Sanders’s statements come amid the news surrounding the union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama and today’s deadline for handing ballots over to the regional National Labor Relations Board office. “Jeff…
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Opinion: Biden Takes On Billionaire Class In Supporting American Workers And Democracy
Biden has thrown down the gauntlet, showing he will fight against corporate autocracy and for workers’ democracy and welfare.
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Lindsey Graham is Furious That Amazon Offered to Help Biden Deliver Vaccines, But Not Trump
Following the November election, Donald Trump essentially stopped doing his job. And it was a bad time to stop as the coronavirus had raged out of control for the last two months. The ex-President ignored the crisis, preferring to complain about imaginary election fraud. Joe Biden , however, has made getting COVID-19 vaccines into American…
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Opinion: Democracy Dies at Amazon, Are Trump and Bezos Really Such Strange Bedfellows?
Recently Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters for The Washington Post Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig published their assessment of Donald Trump’s presidency to date, seeking to step out of the news cycle and “assess the reverberations” of his administration throughout the nation. Titled A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America, the book layers scene…
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Two Questions Warren and Sanders Raise Going into 2020: “How Much is Enough?” and “Do We Have Enough?”
A lot of energy has gone into railing against the tax policy proposals forwarded by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. In the most general terms, they both push hard for raising taxes on the extremely wealthy, the wealthiest of the wealthiest, who have been able to avail themselves of the opportunities this nation affords to…
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Bezos’ Investigator: ‘Government Entity’ Stole His Text Messages
An investigator hired by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes that his text messages that were used as part of a plot to blackmail him were probably obtained illegally by a ‘government entity.’ As we reported last night, Bezos is accusing American Media Inc. (AMI), the parent company of the National Enquirer, of “extortion and blackmail.”…
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Prime Crazy: Trump Thinks Amazon Is Out To Get Him
Trump thinks that Amazon and The Washington Post are the same company, and they are out to get him.
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Here Are Two Ways Jeff Bezos Could Shut Down Trump
Trump loves to tweet, and now twitter is firing back at the president who has been posting some nasty tweets about Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Many people on the White House staff have tried to stop Trump from tweeting, but to no avail. Now former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara has come up with a great…
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‘People With Conventional Views’: Welcome To The Real Modern Family, Washington Post.
The political and media firestorm about Richard Cohen’s recent column, as typical, missed the real issues.
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No Longer a Frontier: Free Speech vs. Online Ugliness
This week Jillian York of the Electronic Frontier Foundation denounced tech companies and employers who censor or punish online ugliness. But the internet is no longer a frontier.