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US ‘perfect playground’ for laundering money linked to environmental crimes, new report finds ( www.icij.org )

The report by the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, published on Oct. 26, said that “critical gaps” in the U.S. anti-money laundering system are vulnerable to exploitation by criminal groups, including those behind the destruction of the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest....

Jewish American Scholar Judith Butler Condemns Israel’s “Genocide” in Gaza --- [video, 5min + transcript] ( www.democracynow.org )

"We should all be standing up and objecting and calling for an end to genocide,” says Butler of the Israeli assault. “Until Palestine is free … we will continue to see violence. We will continue to see this structural violence producing this kind of resistance.”...

More States Should Take Advantage of an Antitrust Doctrine to Make Our Economy Fairer and More Democratic ( www.thesling.org )

In their recent sessions, the New York and California legislatures considered enacting new laws that would transform each industry. Among other obligations, both proposals create state regulatory councils, sometimes referred to as “wage boards” or “labor boards,” overseeing the respective industries that are staffed with...

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