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Progressive ideas

mardi 6 mars 2018 à 01:00

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is going all-out to suppress progressive ideas and even progressive primary candidates.

For many years I have tossed their fundraising mail in the recycle bin without opening it. That was all I could do on my own. Now, together, we must aim to take the Democratic Party away from the right-wing "centrist" Democrats.

Regulations on coal ash

mardi 6 mars 2018 à 01:00

Saboteur Pruitt is "trying to sell the safety of our water to industrial polluters" by pulling back the regulations on coal ash.

Duke Energy tried to hide its report that its coal ash is leaking excessive levels of radioactive materials into groundwater.

Former business lawyers

mardi 6 mars 2018 à 01:00

The bully's saboteurs are hiring lots of former business lawyers to work in the agencies that are supposed to regulate business. They are likely to bring with them the businesses' views about how to interpret and enforce regulations -- that is to say, "weakly" and "not at all".

NAFTA negotiations

mardi 6 mars 2018 à 01:00

Reports from NAFTA negotiations say they are planning a chapter to limit government regulations that protect public health and well-being.

This could be even more harmful than the ISDS clause of the current NAFTA. The Democratic senators that support bank deregulation can't be relied on to block this.

Bank deregulation bill

mardi 6 mars 2018 à 01:00

Plutocratist senators are making the bank deregulation bill do even more favors for big banks.