Harvard Scholar Naomi Oreskes – The Greatest Scam in History: How the Energy Companies Took Us All (Long Read)

"It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time," writes Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University (Nov. 13th, 2019)

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Billionaires Declare OPEN War on Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders

"The exceedingly wealthy are usually content to stay in the shadows while their combined financial leverage and media power keep top government officials more or less in line. But the grassroots strengths of the Warren and Sanders campaigns have jolted some key oligarchs into overt action," writes Norman Solomon, Institute for Public Accuracy and RootsAction.org (Nov. 13th, 2019)

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I was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton: The Economy is Rigged, and only two Democrats have the agenda that’ll beat Trump

"The only way Democrats win is with an agenda of fundamental democratic and economic reform, such as provided by," writes Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor (under Bill Clinton), University of California (Nov 6th, 2019)

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CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is a Rich Jerk

"Imagine if we turned to LeBron James, a truly great basketball player, to get advice on how best to deal with global warming. LeBron is a smart guy, but no one would expect him to have special insights into dealing with global warming, in spite of his incredible skills on the basketball court. In the same vein, why would anyone think that Zuckerberg would know or care about how Facebook should be run in a way that protects democracy?" writes Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington D.C. (Nov. 6th, 2019)

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