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Views Don't Expect the Insurance Industry To Protect You From Climate Change Banks and insurance experts are reporting that, with 2 ½ months to go, the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season is already one of the most expensive to date for the insurance industry. Here’s the weird part: Insurance companies are quietly happy about this. About the time that Hurricane Irma was making... Read more |
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Views New Health Repeal Shows GOP’s Reckless Disregard for Our Lives How cruel and inhumane can a piece of legislation get? The latest Republican proposal to repeal health care – yes, GOP leaders are at it again – takes us to a new low, with a revised version of repeal analysts are calling even more damaging than a “repeal-without-replace.” Republican leaders in the... Read more |
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News Oxfam Has Made Refugees Welcome... at Trump's Childhood Home When can an Airbnb rental make a commentary about the U.S. president's anti-refugee rhetoric and actions and implore world leaders to do more to address the unprecedented crisis ? When the property is President Donald Trump's boyhood home in Queens, New York, and Oxfam is using it to spotlight the... Read more |
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News Refusing to Be Bargaining Chips, Dreamers Shut Down Pelosi's Pro-Dreamer Event Along with undocumented Dreamers and other lawmakers, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was shouted down during a press event in San Francisco on Monday when a group of immigration rights advocates took over the room in protest of what they perceive as a show of political weakness by... Read more |
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Further Whose Streets? The Police State's Streets Stop Killing Us. AP photo One more time, this time in St. Louis, a judge has ruled it's legal for cops to murder black people - even when, as in the December 2011 shooting by former cop Jason Stockley of Anthony Lamar Smith after he stopped Smith for a suspected drug deal, the cop screams while... Read more |
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News New Research Reveals Trump Riding on Wave of Increased Hate Crimes As rights advocates continue to denounce how President Donald Trump has emboldened intolerant ideology, newly obtained data shows that the number of hate crimes rose nationally in 2016, with figures from this year pointing to a troubling trend. The data looking at crimes motivated by racism,... Read more |
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Views How Top Food Companies Fail to Protect Environmental Activists in Supply Chains A recent investigation by the anti-poverty advocacy organization Oxfam reveals how the world’s top ten food and beverage companies are failing to protect environmental and human rights defenders caught in the companies’ supply chains. The Oxfam report, Pathways to Deforestation-Free Food ,... Read more |
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Views Canadian Doctor to U.S.: Try Single-Payer Health Care Instead Of Trashing It There’s a joke we sometimes tell in Canada: What’s a Canadian? An apologetic American with health care. It’s funny because we half-believe it’s true. The United States and Canada are about as similar as two countries get. But Canada has had a publicly funded , single-payer health care system in... Read more |
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Further We All Did It: The Birmingham Church Bombing Family members at the funerals Friday marked the 54th anniversary of the infamous 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, which killed four black girls: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson were all 14, and Carol Denise McNair was 11. The blast... Read more |
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Further National Security Head Issues Bold New Anti-Leak Plan, Which Quickly Leaks Clowns at play. Photo by AFP/Getty Fed up with the "staggering" number of leaks from an uncommonly fractured White House, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has issued a sweeping new call for government-wide training to prevent unauthorized disclosure of both classified and some unclassified... Read more |