US citizens: call on the deportation thugs to close abusive deportation prisons and not open new ones.

US citizens: call on Secretary Haaland to reduce single-use plastic in national parks by 90% by 2025. US citizens: call on Congress to block the merger of Albertsons and Kroger supermarkets.

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US citizens: call on Biden to propose a new FCC commissioner who follows Free Press Action's recommendations.

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Robert Reich explains the history of US bank regulations since the great depression: a conflict between the public and the rich, with politicians choosing which side to take. He concludes with calling for a return to the New Deal regulations including the Glass-Steagall Act, to "make banking boring again."

Bernie Sanders has called for this too.

In my view, the 2000s bail-out of the rich might have been ok if combined with a bailout of homeowners plus increasing taxes on the wealthy and on businesses so as to pay for it.

Most of the major companies in the UK have imposed big price increases simply because the system has nothing to hold them in check.

Raising interest rates, supposedly to reduce inflation, does nothing to stop them. But it is very useful for the rich, and inflation makes a great excuse.

In the name of "energy security", UK prime minister Sunak wants to focus on slow, inefficient and iffy approaches.

It looks like the real goal is to continue the extraction and combustion of carbon as long as possible. Is this an example of "carbon capture"?