Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow her on Twitter: @corbett_jessica.
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News Monday, April 16, 2018 'Shameless Self-Dealing': Report Shows President's Businesses Earned Millions From Spending by Trump Campaign A new report out Monday details how President Donald Trump has financially benefited from his presidency, with federal agencies and political groups—including his own campaign—giving millions to the business empire from which he refuses to divest. The Art of the (Self) Deal: Political and Taxpayer... Read more |
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News Monday, April 16, 2018 'Underestimating the Opposition,' Trudeau Doubles Down on Kinder Morgan Pipeline Push Just a week after environmentalists in Canada celebrated the decision by Kinder Morgan to halt most work on an expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline, citing mounting opposition from activists and regional leaders, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to provide financial and legislative... Read more |
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News Friday, April 13, 2018 Democratic Senators Demand Trump Provide Legal Justification to Attack Syria While House Democrats call for checks on President Donald Trump's military powers, citing fears of " war by tweet ," three senators reportedly sent a letter to the White House on Friday to demand that Trump explain the legal rationale behind his threats to bomb Syria, which lawmakers and experts... Read more |
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News Friday, April 13, 2018 With 'Unlawful' Use of Force in Gaza, Israeli Forces Injure Hundreds of Palestinians as March of Great Return Continues As the March of Great Return continued along the Israeli border on Friday, Gaza health officials reported that Israeli forces ignored international calls for restraint and injured more than 500 Palestinians with tear gas and live ammunition, shooting at least 122 protesters. "Israel is treating the... Read more |
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News Friday, April 13, 2018 Senate Confirms Coal Lobbyist as #2 at EPA as Trump Moves to Slash Clean Air Rules As EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting criticism for a controversial condo rental and calls for his resignation, President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the agency to significantly scale back " one of the strongest science-based public health protections we have " while the Senate... Read more |
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News Thursday, April 12, 2018 Warning Against Attack on Syria, Carter Hopes Trump Realizes Nuclear War 'Catastrophe for All Human Beings' Former President Jimmy Carter has added his voice to those urging President Donald Trump to refrain from launching an illegal military attack on Syria , warning of the serious dangers—including nuclear conflagration—that could result. "I pray that he would keep our country at peace and not... Read more |
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News Thursday, April 12, 2018 Spreading 'Like Wildfire': Majority of Americans—Including 74% of Democrats—Now Support Single-Payer "Five years ago, could you have believed that half of Americans would agree we need a single-payer healthcare system?" That's how Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—a longtime advocate of guaranteeing healthcare for all Americans— responded to a new poll that found that 74 percent of Democrats and 51... Read more |
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News Thursday, April 12, 2018 Huge Leap in Number of Facebook Users 'Very Concerned' About Invasion of Privacy on Social Media Site On the heels of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's two-day congressional testimony to address the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the company's failure to protect users' personal data, new polling indicates a growing number of the social media network's users are "very concerned" about... Read more |
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News Wednesday, April 11, 2018 Concerns of 'Catastrophic Collapse' Grow as Gulf Stream Weaker Than It's Been in 1,600 Years New research published Wednesday in the journal Nature raises alarm about how global warming is impacting the Atlantic Ocean's Gulf Stream System, and how weakening ocean currents could influence extreme weather in Western Europe and sea level rise along North America's East Coast. Although the two... Read more |
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News Wednesday, April 11, 2018 As Trump Reportedly Considers Firing Rosenstein, Senators Move to Protect Mueller Probe As the American public mobilizes for planned protests amid reports that President Donald Trump may fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as a warning to Special Counsel Robert Mueller , a bipartisan team of senators said Wednesday that they will introduce legislation to protect Mueller from... Read more |