Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Kenny Stancil is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @kenny_stancil
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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 |
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News Monday, December 14, 2020 From 'Alternative Facts' to 'Alternate Electors': Stephen Miller Pushes Absurd New Strategy in Face of Trump Loss "As we speak, today, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we're going to send those results up to Congress." That's what senior White House adviser Stephen Miller said Monday morning in an appearance on Fox News , a clear signal that President Donald Trump and... Read more |
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News Monday, December 14, 2020 Due to 'Credible Threats of Violence,' Michigan Capitol Shuttered as Electoral College Meets to Confirm Biden Victory When Michigan's electors to the Electoral College meet in Lansing on Monday afternoon to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory at the polls, the state capitol, including legislative buildings, will be closed to the public due to security concerns, officials announced Sunday night. Amber... Read more |
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News Friday, December 11, 2020 'Seems Like a Good Policy!' CBO Shows Medicare for All Could Cover Everyone for $650 Billion Less Per Year The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday released a report examining the costs associated with universal healthcare proposals that are based on Medicare's fee-for-service program and found that implementing a single-payer health insurance program in the United States would not only guarantee... Read more |
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News Friday, December 11, 2020 Calls to "Abolish the Death Penalty" Grow as Trump's Last-Minute Execution Spree Kills Brandon Bernard For the ninth time this year, the Trump administration executed a death row inmate, killing Brandon Bernard by lethal injection on Thursday night after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-minute appeal for a stay of execution amid a nationwide outcry over the use of the death penalty. The Justice... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 10, 2020 In 'Big Win for Religious Freedom,' US Supreme Court Rules Muslims Put on No-Fly List Can Sue FBI In a unanimous decision Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Muslim individuals who accused the FBI of placing them on the no-fly list in retaliation for refusing to spy on their communities can sue federal agents for damages, upholding a lower court opinion and rejecting the Trump... Read more |
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News Thursday, December 10, 2020 Receiving Nobel Prize, World Food Programme Chief Warns 'We Are Losing Battle Against Hunger' "Because of so many wars, climate change, the widespread use of hunger as a political and military weapon, and a global health pandemic that makes all of that exponentially worse—270 million people are marching toward starvation." Those were the words uttered by the United Nations' World Food... Read more |
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News Wednesday, December 09, 2020 Offshore Tax Havens 'Deep Wells of Profit' For Oil Giants, Report Shows Big Oil firms are enhancing their annual profit margins by hundreds of millions of dollars through tax avoidance—by shifting revenue to finance and insurance offshoots located in island tax havens instead of accurately reporting income derived from drilling in oil-producing countries where levies... Read more |
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News Wednesday, December 09, 2020 Rich Nations Hoard Vaccines While 90% of People in Poor Countries Denied 'Escape Route From the Pandemic' Nine out of 10 people in nearly 70 low-income countries are unlikely to be inoculated against Covid-19 in 2021 because the majority of the most effective vaccines developed so far have been purchased by rich countries, leaving the world's poorest citizens susceptible to the worst consequences of... Read more |