All News Articles for 2020-07-14
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US Corporations a Driving Force Behind 'Unprecedented Wave' of Global Land Privatization: Report "Unfettered capitalism has brought us to this disaster. We must halt and reverse the privatization of the commons to protect and nurture these natural resources for future generations." Read more |
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Lawmakers Rebuke Dept. of Veterans Affairs for Using 'Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Cruel, Painful Experiments on Dogs' "Congress needs to pass legislation to permanently ban these gruesome experiments." Read more |
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'We Will Never Back Down': Landowners and Green Groups File New Lawsuit Against Keystone XL "The Keystone XL project was never in the public interest, and the administration continues to flout key environmental laws to promote this dirty and dangerous pipeline." Read more |
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'More Work to Do' But 'Major Step Forward': Progressives Welcome Biden's $2 Trillion Green Energy Plan "Biden gets a lot right... but he's still got a lot of room for improvement in increasing the scale, scope, and speed in which he addresses the climate emergency." Read more |
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'A Winning Issue' for 2020: Polling Shows Strong Support for Bold Climate Policies "Voters are eager to support candidates that pledge to transform our country into a clean energy economy that will thrive for generations to come." Read more |
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'Violence by Number Tampering': Trump Manipulated Government Estimates of Climate Costs, Says GAO Report " The Trump administration's recklessness will hurt our nation and our planet for decades to come," said Sen. Tom Udall. Read more |
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Deregulation's Deadly Consequences: Report Details How Trump's Assault on Government Exacerbated Pandemic "These rollbacks have put all of us—especially low-income communities, Black people and people of color, and essential workers—at higher risk of contracting and dying from Covid-19." Read more |
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Endangering Lives and Food Supply, Trump Labor Dept. Refuses Covid-19 Protections for Guest Farmworkers "The Trump administration should be prioritizing the health and safety of the nation's farmworkers who are essential to our food security instead of spending time on reducing protections for farmworkers' wages and working conditions." Read more |
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'The Suspect Can't Be the Investigator': ACLU Demands Special Counsel Probe Into Barr Over Police Assault on Protesters "Attorney General Bill Barr and other administration officials appear to have criminally conspired to violently attack lawful demonstrators." Read more |
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Amid Pandemic and Recession, Ivanka Trump-Led #FindSomethingNew Campaign Denounced as 'Stunningly Tone Deaf' "Holy shit, this can't be real." Read more |
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'Something's Gotta Give Here': Urgent Action Demanded as 23 Million US Families Face Possible Eviction by October "This is madness," said Diane Yentel of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. "We need a national eviction moratorium and rent relief now." Read more |
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After Hawkish Engel's Ouster, Progressives Demand Next Foreign Affairs Chairman Commits to 'Ending Our Endless Wars' The House Foreign Affairs Committee chair must advance "the bold, progressive foreign policy that this country deserves." Read more |
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White House Pushes 'Pure Giveaway' to Rich Investors While Urging Cut to Pandemic Unemployment Aid Recipients of the enhanced unemployment benefit could see the aid slashed by more than 50% under a plan being discussed by the Trump administration and GOP Read more |
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In Dead-of-Night Ruling, Supreme Court's Right-Wing Majority OKs First Federal Execution in 17 Years Condemning the state-sanctioned murder of Daniel Lewis Lee, critics accused the high court of enabling the DOJ to "short-circuit federal appellate process to allow it to execute people in the middle of a global pandemic." Read more |
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Study Shows 5.4 Million Have Lost Insurance Amid Pandemic. Progressives Note Number Under Medicare for All Would Be: 0 "If we had Medicare for All, nobody would be losing their healthcare." Read more |