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Rights Group Urges Civilian Safeguards as Biden Sends Troops Back to Somalia

"A culture of impunity for civilian loss breeds resentment and mistrust among the population and undermines efforts to build a more rights-respecting state," Human Rights Watch's regional director asserted.

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Progressives Need to Understand Why the Son of a Hated Dictator Won the Philippine Election

Walden Bello ·
The failures of liberalism made illiberalism popular. But the inevitable crises of the Marcos-Duterte regime offer opportunities for progressive organizing.
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The Buffalo Massacre, Banning Books, and Systemic Racism

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Overturning Roe Will Harm Women Across the World

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A Woman Being Eliminated, On Barbarous Orders From the Virtue and Vice Police

In one of their harshest moves since a purportedly more humane Taliban returned to power, a new edict mandates all Afghan women cover their faces with a full burqa if they dare to leave their now-prison-like homes; it also deputizes men in their lives to enforce the despotic rule. The head-to-toe sheathing is one of many new strictures - female TV journalists in masks, curbs on school, work, travel - by a hardline cabal in charge of "virtue" and "vice," once the Ministry of Women’s Affairs. The goal, besieged women say, is to "erase a whole gender and generation...to make women disappear."

Abby Zimet · May 19, 2022

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WHO to Convene Emergency Meeting on Monkeypox Outbreak

Kenny Stancil ·

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Nearly 90,000 Small Businesses in US Expected to Close After Senate GOP Kills Main Street Relief Bill

Julia Conley ·

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stands in front of a US flag after addressing a keynote speech during an extraordinary session of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Balna cultural centre of Budapest, Hungary on May 19, 2022. - The two-day CPAC meeting is being held in Europe for the first time. (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)

To 'Have Our Own Media' Is Key to Political Power, Orbán Tells US Right-Wingers

Andrea Germanos ·

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Documents Show Baby Formula Maker Enriched Shareholders Amid Deadly Bacteria Outbreak

Jake Johnson ·

Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) speaks at a news conference on July 21, 2021

Warning Bourdeaux Supports Cuts, Social Security Defenders Back McBath in Georgia Primary

Jake Johnson ·

Sen. Bernie Sanders is set to rally for Jessica Cisneros

'She Can Win If We Stand With Her': Sanders to Rally for Cisneros in Texas

Jake Johnson ·

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Peace Advocates Sound Warnings as Progressive Lawmakers Go All-In for $40 Billion Ukraine War Package

Brett Wilkins ·

Reproductive rights and anti-choice protesters rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court before the start of oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case on December 1, 2021

Oklahoma Lawmakers Pass Strictest US Abortion Ban While Roe Still Stands

Jessica Corbett ·

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House Passes Bill Combating Gas Price-Gouging

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Peace Advocates Sound Warnings as Progressive Lawmakers Go All-In for $40 Billion Ukraine War Package

"Russia's invasion of Ukraine must be condemned," says one activist. "But the administration has been telegraphing for weeks that its war aims now go well beyond defending Ukraine."
Brett Wilkins ·
Thousands turned out to march for peace in Ukraine on February 6, 2022 in central London
Activists take part in a candlelight vigil outside the U.N.'s Economic and Social Commission for West Asia building in Beirut to denounce the killing of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh

'We Were Expecting This,' Says Family After Israel Says No Criminal Probe Into Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

Andrea Germanos ·

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Jake Johnson ·

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US Military Clears Itself of Blame in Syria Strike That Killed 'Piles' of Women and Children

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Global Climate Movement Warns Nations Have Just 6 Months to End Fossil Fuel Finance

"The pandemic has shown that governments can rapidly mobilize massive sums of public money," says one campaigner. "This is the moment to do it, and accelerate the transition."
Brett Wilkins ·
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'Entirely Reckless': Critics Blast EU Plan to Boost Gas Infrastructure

Jessica Corbett ·

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Plan to Discharge Fukushima Water Into Pacific Gets OK From Regulators

Julia Conley ·

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Stockholm Environment Institute Says World Is at a 'Boiling Point' as Climate Crisis and War Rage

Jake Johnson ·

Ocean Rebellion staged a theatrical action with a Boris Johnson head and an "Oil head" burning a boat on Marazion beach on June 5, 2021 in Cornwall, United Kingdom. (Photo: Gav Goulder/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Urging Renewable Transition, UN Chief Says Humanity Set to 'Incinerate Our Only Home'

Andrea Germanos ·

Covid-19

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'Reprehensible': Biden Slammed for Urging States to Spend Untapped Covid Funds on Cops

"The real crime," said one critic, "is giving this money to cops instead of using it for air cleaning to protect the American people from the airborne plague that has killed more than a million of us."
Kenny Stancil ·
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'Flatly Incomprehensible': White House Prepares to Ration Vaccines as GOP Obstructs Covid Aid

Jake Johnson ·

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House Panel Exposes How 'Shameful' Meatpackers Put Profits Over Worker Health During Pandemic

Brett Wilkins ·

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Experts Lay Out Proactive Measures to Defend World Against Future Pandemics

Andrea Germanos ·

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'Donation Model Has Failed': Supremacy of Greed Decried as Covid Summit Begins

Jake Johnson ·

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Nearly 90,000 Small Businesses in US Expected to Close After Senate GOP Kills Main Street Relief Bill

"The fate of these small businesses," said one advocacy group, "will be tied to those senators who voted down this lifeline today."
Julia Conley ·
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Baby formula is seen on Target shelves

Documents Show Baby Formula Maker Enriched Shareholders Amid Deadly Bacteria Outbreak

Jake Johnson ·

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Analysis: 26 US Billionaires Paid Average Tax Rate of Just 4.8% in Recent Years

Jake Johnson ·

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House Progressives Urge Executive Action From Biden on Baby Formula 'Emergency'

Kenny Stancil ·

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'A Shameful Distinction': US Ranked World's Biggest Perpetrator of Financial Secrecy

Jake Johnson ·

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To 'Have Our Own Media' Is Key to Political Power, Orbán Tells US Right-Wingers

Hungary's strongman prime minister gave the recommendations at CPAC's first-ever gathering in Europe.
Andrea Germanos ·
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stands in front of a US flag after addressing a keynote speech during an extraordinary session of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Balna cultural centre of Budapest, Hungary on May 19, 2022. - The two-day CPAC meeting is being held in Europe for the first time. (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)
Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) speaks at a news conference on July 21, 2021

Warning Bourdeaux Supports Cuts, Social Security Defenders Back McBath in Georgia Primary

Jake Johnson ·

Sen. Bernie Sanders is set to rally for Jessica Cisneros

'She Can Win If We Stand With Her': Sanders to Rally for Cisneros in Texas

Jake Johnson ·

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) at rally about ending fossil fuel subsidies

Now Do Windfall Tax, Say Climate Groups After Passage of Big Oil Price Gouging Bill

Brett Wilkins ·

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at a news conference

Ocasio-Cortez: Maloney Should Quit DCCC Post If He Runs Against Mondaire Jones

Kenny Stancil ·

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Oklahoma Lawmakers Pass Strictest US Abortion Ban While Roe Still Stands

Reproductive rights supporters vowed to fight against the ban that begins at fertilization and, like legislation in Texas, "creates a bounty-hunting scheme" for enforcement.
Jessica Corbett ·
Reproductive rights and anti-choice protesters rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court before the start of oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case on December 1, 2021
Nine-year-old Nasra Omar reads a book to 1st graders at Riverton Elementary School. The school's mentoring Civil Rights Team, made up of 4th and 5th graders, read books to kindergartners and first graders about civil rights and anti-bias themes in Portland, Maine. (Photo: John Ewing/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Judy Blume, Mo Willems Among 1,300 Children's Authors to Condemn 'Wave of Book Suppression'

Kenny Stancil ·

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War, Disasters Drive 'All-Time High' of Nearly 60 Million Displaced in Home Nations

Jessica Corbett ·

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'After Which Failed Pregnancy Should I Have Been Imprisoned?' Asks Rep. Lucy McBath

Jessica Corbett ·

Mail-in ballots for the U.S. presidential election are sorted at the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorders' mail-in ballot processing center at the Pomona Fairplex in Pomona, California, October 28, 2020. (Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

'Major Milestone' as Rhode Island Expands Voting Rights

Andrea Germanos ·

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