Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow her on Twitter: @corbett_jessica.
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News Saturday, February 06, 2021 'Better Late Than Never': Palestinians Welcome ICC Decision Enabling War Crimes Probe of Israel Palestinian families and human rights groups are welcoming a Friday decision that clears the way for the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations against Israel of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of apartheid in occupied Palestinian territories as a long-overdue... Read more |
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News Saturday, February 06, 2021 Citing Humanitarian Impact, Biden Reverses 'Dangerous' Designation of Houthis as Terrorist Group In the second major policy shift on Yemen in as many days, the Biden administration on Friday said it would reverse the previous administration's designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization, which critics had warned would exacerbate what the United Nations has deemed the world's worst... Read more |
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News Friday, February 05, 2021 After Court Rules Dakota Access Pipeline Operating Illegally, Dems Demand Biden It Shut Down Five Democratic lawmakers on Friday encouraged President Joe Biden to order an immediate shutdown of the Dakota Access pipeline after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last week delivered a victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe by ruling that DAPL is operating illegally. "The... Read more |
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News Friday, February 05, 2021 'Enough Is Enough': 8 Senate Dems Slammed for Going 'Hand-in-Hand With GOP' to Oppose Covid Relief for Undocumented Workers As the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 456,000 and U.S. senators participated in a 15-hour overnight voting session, eight Democrats elicited outrage and condemnation from rights advocates and progressives for backing a GOP amendment to explicitly exclude undocumented... Read more |
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News Thursday, February 04, 2021 Ocasio-Cortez Says Stripping Marjorie Taylor Greene of Committees Isn't Enough—'She Must Be Expelled' As the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday prepared to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her assigned committees, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez charged that doing so wasn't a strong enough rebuke of her colleague's widely condemned views and behavior, instead advocating for her... Read more |
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News Thursday, February 04, 2021 New Bill From Blumenauer, Ocasio-Cortez, and Sanders Demands Biden Declare a National Climate Emergency In a sign that some members of Congress intend to hold President Joe Biden accountable for climate promises he made as a candidate, three lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill directing him to declare a national climate emergency and mobilize every resource available to halt, reverse, mitigate,... Read more |
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News Thursday, February 04, 2021 Top Democrats in Congress Call On Biden—'With the Stroke of a Pen'—to Cancel Up to $50,000 in Student Debt President Joe Biden on Thursday faced demands from dozens of Democrats in Congress and over 325 advocacy groups to begin tackling the student debt crisis by providing immediate relief to the more than 43 million people nationwide who are burdened by a collective $1.7 trillion in federal student... Read more |
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News Wednesday, February 03, 2021 Biden Boots 'Union Busters and Anti-Government Ideologues' From Key Labor Panel In another early win for organized labor, President Joe Biden on Tuesday requested that all 10 members of a key federal panel—who were appointed by his predecessor—immediately resign, and then fired the two appointees who refused to do so. As Government Executive noted , former President Donald... Read more |
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News Wednesday, February 03, 2021 After 'Bitterly Disappointing' Court Ruling on Line 3, Biden Urged to Shut Down Pipeline Project 'Once and for All' Amid a wave of direct actions that have at times stalled work on Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline, the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied a request to shut down construction as legal battles continue, disappointing Indigenous and climate activists who have been fighting against the tar sands... Read more |
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News Wednesday, February 03, 2021 Sens. Whitehouse and Warren Push Treasury Secretary Yellen to 'Rein In Abuse' of Dark Money Groups In a Wednesday letter to recently confirmed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Elizabeth Warren, attested to "the corrosive influence of dark money" and expressed hope that she will ensure the department reexamines "how it regulates dark money groups and restore... Read more |