World governments are spending $1.8 trillion annually on corporate welfare to support fossil fuel emissions, deforestation, water pollution and other harms to the planet.
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Medicare Privatization is one of the holy grails of Wall Street healthcare investors. The Trump administration tried to sneak in a covert privatization program under the radar. The problem is that it has not been killed yet.
Researchers who examined water samples from over 1,000 locations warn that "pharmaceutical pollution poses a global threat to environmental and human health."
Following a 16-year bet Republicans laid down in 2006 to block Postal EVs, DeJoy just told Biden to go screw himself: he’s going to buy fossil-fuel vehicles for 90% of the fleet instead of electric.
Once again the pharma industry has proven that it regulates Congress, not the other way around. How long will America allow rampant drug price gouging?
Amazon saved a ton of money on taxes in 2021 using perfectly legal—thanks to Congressionally provided loopholes—maneuvers to bring their tab down from $7.3 billion which would be the statutory rate.
On average, COVID is killing an estimated 2,600 people every day in the U.S., a staggering figure that experts fear is becoming “normalized” among the country’s political establishment and population.
Donors like billionaire investor Ken Langone are "always there to reach across the aisle to make sure to support politicians who take from the poor and give to the rich."
There is something profoundly wrong in America when pharma companies can raise the price of generic drugs by 500 percent or more.
From the "not much of a surprise" department, analysis finds that America's 661 billionaires pumped $1,200,000,000 into the 2020 elections.
Both former gubernatorial candidate David Perdue and Florida Governor DeSantis are proposing an election police force to bolster the Big Lie from Trump that the 2020 election was stolen. Maybe these police should be called the "Election Outcome Enforcement Bureau."
Blatant racial discrimination has driven hundreds of thousands of good, Black farmers off the land.
In a close parallel to current state of climate denial, Don't Look Up's scientists, played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio, discover that few people can be bothered to care, let alone act, in the face of impending annihilation.
"By any objective measure, Louis DeJoy, a top campaign contributor of Donald Trump, has been, by far and away, the worst postmaster general in the modern history of America."
Joe Manchin has been bullshitting the entire country for months with arguments and fake negotiations for a bill that is extremely popular with voters and good for the economy, but not so much with his financial backers, or his personal interests. Betrayal is too tame a word.
The best time for PR firms to stop working for fossil fuel clients was 20 years ago, when we had much more time to stop the climate emergency. The second best time is now.