Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Kenny Stancil is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @kenny_stancil
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News Wednesday, January 06, 2021 After Right-Wing Coup Effort in DC, Venezuela Offers Sympathy for US Suffering What 'It Has Generated' Elsewhere While Democratic and Republican lawmakers, political pundits, and angered U.S. citizens of all stripes rightly condemned Wednesday's violent coup attempt by a pro-Trump mob in the nation's capital, at least one foreign government offered its sympathy for the assault while also pointing out that U.S... Read more |
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News Wednesday, January 06, 2021 US National Guard Ordered to Clear and Secure US Capitol Building Under Siege by Pro-Trump Mob After a long period of silence, the White House on Wednesday afternoon directed the Pentagon to comply with a request made by Washington, D.C. officials to deploy the National Guard to the U.S. Capitol, which was breached earlier in the day in an apparent violent coup attempt by hundreds of... Read more |
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News Wednesday, January 06, 2021 'Barbaric': Nebraska Governor Puts Undocumented Meatpackers at Back of Vaccine Line Immigrant and labor rights advocates as well as progressive lawmakers are denouncing Nebraska's Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts for his decision to exclude undocumented meatpackers from the first round of the state's coronavirus inoculation program, which is set to move into a phase that includes... Read more |
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News Tuesday, January 05, 2021 New Study Reveals Flawed Predictions of Runaway Costs and Usage Under Medicare for All With the Covid-19 pandemic raging and recognition of the inadequacy and injustice of America's for-profit healthcare system at a possible zenith, a new study released Tuesday reveals that projections of large and costly usage increases under a single-payer program have been overstated, bolstering... Read more |
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News Tuesday, January 05, 2021 'Devastating Effects' of CA Prop 22 Begin as Albertsons Stores Move to Replace Unionized Drivers With Gig Workers Unionized grocery delivery drivers with full-time benefits at California stores owned by Albertsons are set to be fired this month and replaced with "independent contractors" working under adverse conditions for third-party gig companies. Progressives are attributing this erosion of workers' rights... Read more |
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News Monday, January 04, 2021 'Violence Is Being Incited': DC Braces for Trump-Endorsed Anti-Democracy Rally on Wednesday In an effort to preempt violence, officials in Washington, D.C. on Monday warned potential attendees of Wednesday's so-called #StopTheSteal rally and related events scheduled for this week that armed protesters will be arrested by city police officers, with the assistance of 300 unarmed National... Read more |
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News Monday, January 04, 2021 'His Biggest—And Likely Most Disastrous—Stunt Yet'? Experts Warn a Desperate Trump May Attack Iran Foreign policy experts are sounding the alarm that U.S. President Donald Trump could launch an assault on Iran in the final weeks of his administration, potentially provoking a full-blown war just days before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. Fears of a military confrontation are mounting... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 31, 2020 "Drugs Don't Work If People Can't Afford Them": Big Pharma to Raise Prices of 300 Medications on Jan. 1 As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, hospitalizations skyrocketed in 2020, but routine visits to the doctor's office and demand for new prescription medications fell sharply during the worldwide lockdown. To make up for lost revenue, the pharmaceutical industry plans to ring in the New Year by... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 31, 2020 'Raises From Coast to Coast in 2021': New Year, Higher Minimum Wages in 24 States and 50 Municipalities Thanks to Fight for $15 2020 was a devastating year for underpaid frontline workers. But even in the face of public health and economic crises triggered by Covid-19, the Fight for $15 movement persisted, and now 24 states and 50 municipalities throughout the U.S. are set to raise minimum wages in 2021. On New Year's Day,... Read more |
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News Wednesday, December 30, 2020 Lame-Duck Trump's "Middle East Arms Bonanza" Continues With Approval of $290 Million Weapons Sale to Saudi Regime Despite opposition from the public and some members of Congress , the Trump administration in its waning days is rushing through weapons sales to a handful of Middle East nations with records of human rights abuses, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose U.S.-backed blockades... Read more |