Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Kenny Stancil is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @kenny_stancil
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News Monday, December 21, 2020 'Slap in the Face for People Suffering Across the Country': Critics Slam Watered-Down Covid Relief Deal In the wake of Sunday night's agreement on a roughly $900 billion Covid-19 relief package that is far smaller than economists say is necessary, progressives argued that the "slap-in-the-face" bill must be passed to help stem the suffering of working-class Americans but that much more will be needed... Read more |
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News Friday, December 18, 2020 To Help 'Reshape How America Engages a Changed World,' Biden Given Slate of Progressive Foreign Policy Picks While President-elect Joe Biden has faced criticism from the left for nominating war hawks and weapons industry insiders to the upper ranks of his foreign policy team, a coalition of progressive organizations hoping to influence staffing decisions at the lower echelons of the national security... Read more |
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News Friday, December 18, 2020 'Baffling': Trump Admin Reportedly Slashing Vaccine Allocations to States While Millions of Doses Sit on Shelves Officials from more than a dozen states say the Trump administration has informed them that next week's Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine allotments to their jurisdictions are being substantially reduced, prompting confusion and outrage. The development comes even as Pfizer insists that it has... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 17, 2020 'A Perfect Choice': Progressives Applaud Biden Pick of Deb Haaland for Interior Secretary President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland to be secretary of the interior—the successful culmination of a campaign waged by a broad coalition of social and environmental justice advocates—was met with applause on Thursday. Climate justice and Indigenous rights advocates... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 17, 2020 'Sick': Most Profitable US Companies Fired Workers, Enriched Shareholders During Pandemic While the Covid-19 pandemic and corresponding economic crisis have made 2020 a devastating year for the vast majority of people throughout the United States, most of the country's biggest companies have prospered—only to hand a larger chunk of profits to shareholders while firing thousands of... Read more |
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News Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Progressives Denounce Trump SEC's "Gift to the Oil Industry" as Anti-Corruption Rule Gets Neutered Progressives on Wednesday decried the Trump administration's weakening of an anti-corruption rule requiring fossil fuel companies to disclose payments to foreign governments. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Tuesday night called a rule change proposed by outgoing U.S. Securities and Exchange... Read more |
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News Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms 'Trickle Down' Theory Is an Absolute Sham Neoliberal gospel says that cutting taxes on the wealthy will eventually benefit everyone by boosting economic growth and reducing unemployment, but a new analysis of fiscal policies in 18 countries over the last 50 years reveals that progressive critics of "trickle down" theory have been right all... Read more |
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News Tuesday, December 15, 2020 'Raking in Cash From Major Financial Interests': Wall Street Gives Millions to Georgia Lawmakers in Bid to Maintain GOP-Controlled Senate Compared to their relatively grassroots-funded Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia are being generously bankrolled by Wall Street interests eager to see the GOP maintain its hold on the U.S. Senate—control of which is up... Read more |
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News Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Wall Street Titan Gloats Over Pandemic Profits From Rentals as Eviction Tsunami Looms As the December 31 expiration date on the CDC's federal eviction moratorium nears in the midst of the surging Covid-19 pandemic and freezing weather, an estimated 30 to 40 million working-class households in the United States are bracing for the possibility of eviction—but at least one Wall Street... Read more |
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News Monday, December 14, 2020 'It Never Had to Be Like This': 300,000 Dead in US From Covid-19 Under Donald J. Trump On the same day the first American received a coronavirus vaccine, the U.S. pandemic death toll surpassed 300,000 on Monday, another grim milestone that comes less than four weeks after the number of Covid-19 deaths in the country reached 250,000. The Associated Press put the staggering statistics... Read more |