Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow her on Twitter: @corbett_jessica.
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News Wednesday, September 26, 2018 'Glimmer of Hope' for Yemen as Khanna Invokes War Powers Act to End US Support for Saudi-Led Slaughter of Civilians Amid reports that civilian deaths have "surged dramatically" in Yemen since June, when the Saudi-led coalition launched an offensive to take control of the port city Hodeidah, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday officially introduced a highly anticipated resolution invoking the War Powers Act of 1973, in hopes of ending American support for the coalition's attacks and the resulting humanitarian crisis. Read more |
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News Wednesday, September 26, 2018 In Sworn Statement, New Accuser Julie Swetnick Says Kavanaugh Was 'Present' When She Was Gang Raped In a bombshell development in the already contentious confirmation process of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, longtime government employee Julie Swetnick, in a sworn declaration signed under penalty of perjury , alleges that during house parties in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and other... Read more |
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News Wednesday, September 26, 2018 To Fight Climate Threat and 'Greed-Is-Good' Capitalism, Corbyn Offers 'Radical Plan to Rebuild and Transform' UK Closing out the Labour Party's annual conference on Wednesday, Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn vowed to end "greed-is-good" capitalism and "kick-start a green jobs revolution" as part of his "radical plan to rebuild and transform" the United Kingdom. Read more |
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News Tuesday, September 25, 2018 As Trump Attacks Global Cooperation at UN, Rouhani Says Hits Against Multilateralism Show 'Weakness of Intellect' While U.S. President Donald Trump used his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to denigrate migrants and global cooperation, his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, declared that " confronting multilateralism is not a sign of strength, rather it is a symptom of a weakness of intellect." Read more |
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News Tuesday, September 25, 2018 'Shameless': Trump Repeals Rule Meant to Prevent Oil-Carrying 'Bomb Trains' From Derailing and Exploding In a move that outraged environmentalists and increased the chances of deadly and destructive accidents, the Trump administration's Department of Transportation (DOT) has repealed an Obama-era rule that mandated safety upgrades for "dangerous" oil tanker trains to reduce the possibility of derailments, explosions, and spills. Read more |
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News Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Visionary Report Demands 'New Social Contract' to Curb Threats Tech Giants Pose to Democracy "The crisis for democracy posed by digital disinformation demands a new social contract for the internet rooted in transparency, privacy, and competition," declares a new report that challenges the overwhelming power wielded by large tech firms and the online platforms they now control. "Now, we... Read more |
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News Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Former UN Chief Ban Ki-moon: US For-Profit Health System 'Politically and Morally Wrong' Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in an interview with the Guardian published Tuesday, called out the United States for failing to ensure that all Americans have healthcare, urged national leaders to implement a universal, publicly-funded system, and denounced the "powerful"... Read more |
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News Monday, September 24, 2018 Students at Yale Law School, Kavanaugh's Alma Mater, Join Nationwide Protests Against His Confirmation Alongside nationwide walkouts and Capitol Hill protests, hundreds of students at Yale Law School (YLS) demonstrated on and off campus on Monday to demand thorough and fair investigations into the multiple allegations of sexual assault that women have levied against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Read more |
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News Monday, September 24, 2018 Dozens Arrested as Survivors Flood Capitol Hill to Share Trauma of Sexual Assault, Demand Senate Reject Kavanaugh Ahead of a 1pm national walkout on Monday to support Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez—who have accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault—and demand that lawmakers oppose him, hundreds of critics flooded Capitol Hill to target specific senators such as Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), whose responses to the women's claims have outraged advocates for survivors of sexual violence. Read more |
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News Monday, September 24, 2018 As War on Drugs Again Declared Failure, Trump's UN Event Dismissed as 'Splashy' Backward-Thinking Photo Op As the Trump administration pressures countries across the globe to back a drug policy document that critics say aims to ensure "that the world continues to implement the War on Drugs, despite the approach's dangerous consequences for human rights and national security," two new reports detail how that approach has been a major failure in the United States and call for "reform of the prohibition-based international drug control system, which is compromising a universal and holistic approach to the 'drug problem.'" Read more |