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UN Experts Catalog Seemingly Endless List of Racial Discrimination in US

Andrea Germanos Common Dreams
"Despite substantial changes since the end of the enforcement of Jim Crow and the fight for civil rights, ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights of African Americans today,"

Dangerous Regulatory Duet

Corporate Europe Observatory
How transatlantic regulatory cooperation under TTIP will allow bureaucrats and big business to attack the public interest.

Strike Shuts Down Third-Biggest U.S. Port

Robert Hennelly CBS
According to some reports, longshore workers are fed up with the NY Waterfront Commision's refusal to hire full-time workers, excessive drug testing and outsourcing of work.

Barbed Wire

Nathan Hoks Matter: A (somewhat) monthly journal
Chicago poet Nathan Hoks shows a keen understanding of bad things going on in our times and then takes it all a surreal step beyond or maybe not.

Does the Bern Go Deep Enough?

Mike Konczal The Nation
Bernie Sanders' plan would break up the biggest banks. But strong banking reform could do more. Here are three ways he can make his plan a real threat to the finance industry.

The Flint Disaster Is Rick Snyder’s Fault

Dana Milbank The Washington Post
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder undertook an arrogant public-policy experiment, underpinned by the ideological assumption that the “experience set” of corporate-style managers was superior to the checks and balances of democracy. This is why Flint happened.