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Trump’s Border Wall: Who Profits?
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Trump’s Border Wall: Who Profits?

Infrastructure, military, and security companies line up to take a piece from the budget for the Border Wall, funded by Trump’s National Emergency declaration Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by…

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Middle Class Loses, Plutocrats Win With Trump’s Tax Cuts
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Middle Class Loses, Plutocrats Win With Trump’s Tax Cuts

Trump’s “middle class tax cut” is a tax hike. Economist Bill Black says Trump could have been a popular President, if he hadn’t lied about middle class tax cuts and building infrastructure Visit https://therealnews.com for…

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Canadian Company Profits from Apartheid Israeli Railway
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Canadian Company Profits from Apartheid Israeli Railway

Jonathan Kuttab discusses the lawsuit against the Canadian company Bombardier, which is building an illegal railway through occupied and confiscated Palestinian land in the West Bank, violating international law. Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and…

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Toronto Residents Face Off Against Google over Waterfront ‘Smart City’
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Toronto Residents Face Off Against Google over Waterfront ‘Smart City’

A subsidiary of Google wants to build a ‘Smart City’ on Toronto’s Waterfront. But with billions of dollars in real estate and infrastructure at play, residents are pushing back against a proposal that they say…

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Texas Pipeline Bill Criminalizes Water Protectors
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Texas Pipeline Bill Criminalizes Water Protectors

Since the 2016 protests at Standing Rock, ND, the fossil fuel industry has been pressuring state legislatures to pass laws criminalizing protests against pipeline construction. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate….

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Rattling the Bars: Repurposing prisons can revitalize rural America
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Rattling the Bars: Repurposing prisons can revitalize rural America

The economic fortunes of rural communities across the United States are often deeply intertwined with the prison industrial complex. This poses a real challenge to the project of ending mass incarceration. How can organizers build…

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