Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Kenny Stancil is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @kenny_stancil
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News Sunday, December 06, 2020 'Money For War': US Arms Sales Soar and Bipartisan Militarism Thrives Amid Covid-19 Pandemic The United States sold more than $175 billion in military equipment to foreign governments in the fiscal year that ended September 30, Pentagon and State Department officials announced Friday—a 2.8% increase compared to 2019, when weapons exports totaled just over $170 billion. The latest figures... Read more |
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News Sunday, December 06, 2020 Democracy 'Has To Be Defended': It Is Possible and Necessary, Critics Say, To Stop Trump From Running in 2024 "We're trying to do another four years," President Donald Trump said at a Saturday night rally in Georgia. "Otherwise, I'll see you in four years." Trump's "increasingly overt flirtations with running again in 2024," as the Associated Press put it , must be met with "a proportionate response,"... Read more |
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News Saturday, December 05, 2020 Hours After Brian Kemp Declined to Overturn Georgia's Election Results, Trump Slammed GOP Governor at Lie-Filled Rally President Donald Trump on Saturday morning called Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to pressure him to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state, and hours later at a rally in support of GOP lawmakers Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue—who are campaigning ahead of January 5 runoffs... Read more |
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News Saturday, December 05, 2020 Trump Demands Names of 27 Congressional Republicans Who Acknowledged Biden's Victory Just 27 out of 249 congressional Republicans acknowledge that Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to a Washington Post survey, and Trump on Saturday demanded that they be identified. More than a month after President-elect Biden claimed a decisive victory over... Read more |
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News Saturday, December 05, 2020 With 'Economy On the Verge of Renewed Carnage,' the Squad Demands Relief Prioritizing Working People With " the economy on the verge of renewed carnage ," progressive stalwarts in the U.S. House are demanding urgent and robust relief that meets the pressing needs of the country's working people who have been devastated by the coronavirus crisis. Our communities are enduring unprecedented... Read more |
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News Friday, December 04, 2020 Sanders Opposed to Relief Plan That Gives 'Absolutely No Financial Help' to Tens of Millions of Suffering People Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday expressed his opposition to the bipartisan Covid-19 relief bill currently being hashed out in the U.S. Senate, arguing that any package that denies stimulus checks to millions of struggling households yet guarantees corporations immunity from coronavirus-related... Read more |
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News Friday, December 04, 2020 'Few Things Matter More to Humans': UN Report Says We Must Protect and Restore Biodiversity of World's Soil While nutritious diets, healthy populations, pollution remediation, and even climate change mitigation all depend, at least in part, on soil biodiversity, society is not doing enough to protect "the variety of life below ground." That's according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 03, 2020 Facing Opposition From Progressives, Gina Raimondo Withdraws From Consideration as Biden's HHS Chief Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, a Democrat who had emerged as the frontrunner to be President-elect Joe Biden's health secretary despite overseeing one of the deadliest Covid-19 outbreaks in the United States, announced Thursday that she has removed herself from contention for the job, much to the... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 03, 2020 Google Illegally Surveilled, Interrogated, and Fired Workers Who Tried to Organize, NLRB Says Google repeatedly violated U.S. labor law when it spied on, probed, and terminated employees engaged in worker organizing in 2019, according to a complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday. In its complaint (pdf), the NLRB alleges that Google was "interfering with,... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 03, 2020 With Pandemic a 'Tipping Point,' UN Warns 1 Billion More People Headed for Extreme Poverty by 2030 A harrowing study released by the United Nations early Thursday reveals that the global coronavirus pandemic is setting the stage for a massive surge in the number of people pushed into poverty worldwide over the next decade—a phenomenon that only immediate interventions in the form of ambitious... Read more |