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In These Times ... 22 February 2020 ... Inside Bernie’s Unorthodox Plan To Beat Trump | The Fate of the Planet Rests on Dethroning the IMF and World Bank and other stories
Peter Burgess
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Inside Bernie’s Unorthodox Plan To Beat Trump http://inthesetimes.com/features/bernie_sanders_campaign_strategy_new_voters_latino_organizing.html Sanders is taking a risk no one has before: banking on new voters. BY NUALA BISHARI Open file 18338
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The Fate of the Planet Rests on Dethroning the IMF and World Bank A Global Green New Deal could herald a new era of international cooperation to curb the climate crisis. BY JOHANNA BOZUWA AND THOMAS M. HANNA
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Superdelegates Were Designed To Stop a Candidate Like Bernie Of course the establishment candidates embraced the unelected electors–they were created precisely to protect the party elite. BY BRANKO MARCETIC
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Bloomberg Unleashes Warren’s Rage—At Last http://inthesetimes.com/article/22322/bloomberg-warren-rage-democratic-debate If Warren has a superpower, it is her anger—a righteous, coruscating fury that beautifully clarifies the moral stakes of a rigged economy. BY KATHLEEN GEIER
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At What Point Does Bloomberg’s Unprecedented Ad Spending Amount to Bribery of the Media? http://inthesetimes.com/article/22316/michael-bloomberg-political-campaign-ad-spending-media Bloomberg has already spent $400 million on ads, making hardly a dent in his $60 billion fortune. BY JULIANNE TVETEN
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“I Would Love Medicare for All”: A Nevada Culinary Union Member on Why She Supports Bernie Sanders While the powerful Culinary Workers Union in Nevada is attacking Sanders’ universal healthcare plan, a rank-and-file worker says “a lot of members want Bernie” and support Medicare for All.
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Where the Ongoing Mass Protests Against Neoliberalism in Chile Came From Chileans are still taking to the streets to protest an unjust economic order. It will take a political movement to change the system. BY ANNA KOWALCZYK
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The Prisoners Forced To Sue for Soap and Toilet Paper Prisoners have filed suit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections due to unsafe living conditions and inadequate medical care. BY ARVIND DILAWAR
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WORKING IN THESE TIMES More Than 1,200 IBEW Members Call on Union Leadership to Retract Biden Endorsement Sanders supporters inside IBEW say the union's endorsement of Joe Biden was undemocratic. They're calling on union leaders to take a vote of members instead. BY HAMILTON NOLAN
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RURAL AMERICA IN THESE TIMES Animals Large and Small Once Covered America’s Grasslands. Can We Save What’s Left of Their Habitat? The U.S. has a history of protecting its majestic mountains and deserts. But it has undervalued its biologically rich grasslands. BY STACEY SCHMADER
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