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Global Banks Sabotage Uruguay’s Efforts to Legalize Marijuana
By Don Quijones / Wolf Street.
It’s hard to do business without banks.
The first country to fully legalize the recreational use of marijuana, Uruguay, has suddenly found itself facing an unexpected obstacle: the international banking industry.
Will Harvey's Damage Shift How Congress Sees Climate Change and Budget Cuts?
By Marianne Lavelle , John H. Cushman Jr., Georgina Gustin
With the Texas home of the U.S. oil industry now in distress, Congress and the president may have to rethink their federal budget-slashing strategy.
Obama's Overtime Rule is Overruled
By Dena Sokolow
The Obama administration's controversial overtime rule is now dead in the water. Yesterday, a Texas federal court ruled in favor of the 55 state and business plaintiffs who challenged the rule.
How did we get here?
Single payer movement criticizes Sanders
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers.
At the start of the August congressional recess, Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he will introduce a senate bill this September “to expand Medicare to cover all Americans.” Since the election, the movement for improved Medicare for all, has been urging Sanders to introduce a companion to John Conyers’ HR 676: The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, which currently has a record 117 co-sponsors in the House and is considered the gold standard by the movement.
Left-wing Perspectives on Political Islam: A Mapping Attempt
The emergence of contemporary political Islam, or “Islamism”,1 from the late 1970s onwards, has confronted the Left with an enormous challenge. While standing in opposition to secularism and women’s rights, Islamist movements in the Middle East have coopted standard left-wing causes, such as resistance to the state and foreign intervention. In doing so, contemporary Islamism has gained the allegiance of vast swathes of the population in Muslim-majority countries, whose socioeconomic position would, under other circumstances, dictate a left-wing orientation.