Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow her on Twitter: @corbett_jessica.
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News Friday, March 16, 2018 Despite Unprecedented Year of Extreme Weather, FEMA Ditches Every Single Mention of 'Climate' From Four-Year Strategic Plan While 2017 was the costliest year ever for destruction from extreme weather events—and even as much of Puerto Rico is still struggling with a slow and " dehumanizing " recovery nearly six months after Hurricane Maria —a look at the new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) four-year strategic... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 15, 2018 To Fend Off Progressive Primary Challenger Marie Newman, Anti-Choice Group Throws Big Money at Blue Dog Democrat Now that progressive primary challenger Marie Newman is " within striking distance " of ousting Blue Dog Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski in Illinois's 3rd District, a right-wing group that typically backs Republicans has made a " six-figure investment " in a "last-minute push" to bolster the anti-choice... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 15, 2018 'Mad Dog' Mattis Urges Congress to Continue US Support for Saudi Arabia's Destruction of Yemen While experts and anti-war activists are demanding Congress end U.S. complicity in Saudi Arabia's war with Yemen—which has caused what the U.N. has called " the worst man-made humanitarian crisis of our time "—Trump Defense Secretary Gen. Jim "Mad Dog" Mattis is actively urging lawmakers to reject... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 15, 2018 Caught Admitting He Just Makes Stuff Up, Trump Doubles Down on False Claim Made to Trudeau About Trade Deficit After the Washington Post obtained a recording in which President Donald Trump bragged to donors about making up trade facts during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Americans expressed concerns about Trump's demonstrated tendency to lie alongside worries about how he will... Read more |
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News Wednesday, March 14, 2018 Amid Trump Push to Arm More Teachers, Students Injured After 'Trained' Educator's Gun Goes Off in Classroom Bolstering recent warnings about the dangers of giving guns to teachers—a proposal touted by the gun lobby as well as President Donald Trump and other Republicans following the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida last month—a high school teacher and reserve cop in California accidentally... Read more |
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News Wednesday, March 14, 2018 'Enough': Students Walk Out Nationwide to Protest Inaction on Gun Violence At 10am local time, students at more than 3,000 high schools across the country planned to participate in the 17-minute "Enough" walkout on Wednesday—exactly one month after 17 people were killed in the Parkland, Florida shooting—to protest Congress's failure to enhance national gun control... Read more |
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News Tuesday, March 13, 2018 From Asthma to Cancer, 'Blistering' New Report Details Human Cost of Fracking A team of researchers on Tuesday released a " blistering " report on the serious public health threats—from headaches to asthma to cancer—posed by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking , a process of injecting a mix of water and chemicals into rocks to release oil and natural gas. "Fracking is the... Read more |
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News Tuesday, March 13, 2018 Ahead of Nationwide Walkout Demanding Action on Guns, ACLU Offers Primer on Students' Rights Ahead of Wednesday's 17-minute walkout by high school students nationwide, to call for stricter gun control laws and remember those killed in the massacre in Parkland, Florida last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is providing legal resources to the students and urging... Read more |
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News Tuesday, March 13, 2018 Trump Picks 'Actual Torturer' Gina Haspel as Next CIA Director Human rights advocates are expressing outrage on Tuesday after President Donald Trump nominated deputy director Gina Haspel—" an actual torturer "—to be the next CIA director despite her leading role in running an agency black site where detainees were systematically and gruesomely abused. Haspel... Read more |
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News Tuesday, March 13, 2018 'I Didn't Feel Like Fabricating the Truth': ICE Spokesperson Quits Over Agency Falsehoods A spokesman for the San Francisco division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has resigned over what he says were falsehoods by public officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, about recent raids by federal agents in California, and being pressured by agency leadership to... Read more |