Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Kenny Stancil is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @kenny_stancil
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News Friday, January 08, 2021 'No More Excuses': With Senate Majority Reclaimed, Progressives Demand Bold Agenda From Biden With President Donald Trump defeated and Democrats soon to be the majority in both the House and Senate, progressives are saying there can be " no more excuses " for the incoming Biden administration failing to enact a bold and visionary agenda to solve the nation's most pressing issues in a way... Read more |
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News Thursday, January 07, 2021 Poll Shows Nearly Half of GOP Voters—Lied to by Right-Wing Media—Approve of US Capitol Ransacking A new poll released in the aftermath of Wednesday's violent coup attempt— incited by President Donald Trump and enabled by Republican lawmakers who questioned the legitimacy of President-elect Joe Biden's victory—shows that nearly half of GOP voters approve of the pro-Trump mob's storming of the U... Read more |
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News Thursday, January 07, 2021 Nearly 4,000 Americans Died From Covid-19 on Wednesday as Trump Incited Anti-Democratic Insurrection Public Citizen president Robert Weissman called Wednesday a "dark, dark day for America." He was understandably referring to the spectacle of an insurrectionary mob of fascists— egged on by President Donald Trump and abetted by Republican lawmakers— storming the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to... Read more |
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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 |