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As Lame-Duck Trump Pushes for Arctic Pillage, Bank of America Latest Bank to Rule Out Drilling in Alaska Wildlife Refuge "Now that every major American bank has stated unequivocally that they will not finance this destructive activity, it should be clearer than ever that any oil company considering participating in Trump's ill-advised lease sale should stay away." Read more |
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'Shameful and Outrageous': New Satellite Data Reveals Brazilian Amazon Deforestation at 12-Year High "Instead of acting to prevent the increase in deforestation, the Bolsonaro government has been denying the reality of the situation, dismantling environmental agencies, and attacking NGOs." Read more |
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Tests Reveal Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in Aerial Pesticide Showered Over Millions of Acres in US "These findings shock the conscience." Read more |
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Friends of the Earth vs. Shell: 'Historic Moment' as Climate Movement Takes on Big Oil at The Hague "This is actually 'the People versus Shell,' a company that has got away with greenwashing for too long." Read more |
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Warning of International Law Violations, Rights Groups Demand Halt to Trump Weapons Sale to UAE "In Yemen, airstrikes by the Saudi- and Emirati-led Coalition are responsible for the majority of civilian casualties," 29 groups write in a new letter. Read more |
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268,000 People Died and Scott Atlas Shrugged: Trump's "Most Dangerous" Covid Adviser Quits Atlas brought no expertise in infectious diseases but plenty of misinformation to the position. Read more |
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With Rent Due and Evictions Looming, Warren Rips McConnell for 'Disgraceful' Obstruction "McConnell and the Senate GOP still haven't reinstated the $600 unemployment checks, extended unemployment programs, passed rental assistance, or anything else in months to help struggling families during this crisis." Read more |
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'Utterly Arbitrary and Unlawful': Farmworker Groups Sue to Block Trump Wage Freeze An attorney for Farmworker Justice warned that, if allowed to take effect, the wage freeze would cause "grave harm to some of the most vulnerable workers in the nation." Read more |
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House Democrats Demand Increase in IRS Funding to Go After 'Wealthy Tax Cheats'—Like Donald Trump "Millionaire tax dodgers like Donald Trump get away with paying little to no federal income tax in part because IRS funding has dropped over 20% since 2010." Read more |
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'All About the Grift': Trump Reportedly Raises Over $150 Million for Non-Existent 'Election Defense Fund' "Small donors who give to Trump thinking they are financing an 'official election defense fund' are in fact helping pay down the Trump campaign's debt or funding his post-presidential political operation." Read more |
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Amnesty International Reveals Extent of Facebook, YouTube Complicity in Vietnamese State Repression "For millions of Vietnamese netizens, Facebook was the great hope for helping to build a free and open society—and it still has the power to be," said Amnesty's lead regional campaigner. Read more |
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'A Moral and Legal Obligation': 80+ Groups Urge Biden to End US Complicity in Saudi-Led Assault on Yemen "American involvement in this brutal catastrophe is shameful and must come to an end." Read more |
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Calls for Diplomacy—Not War—as Scientist's Assassination, Trump Impede Biden's Path to Iran Engagement "We cannot let anyone drag us into a new war." Read more |
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Trump Failures Highlighted in GAO's Devastating Report on Pandemic, Calling for 'Urgent Action' to Preserve Public Health "More than 10 months into this pandemic, the Trump administration still refuses to learn from its repeated failures, leading to more disease, more deaths, and more economic devastation across this country." Read more |
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'Good Riddance': Progressives Welcome Ajit Pai's Departure From FCC as Great News The current chair, said one critic, "will go down in history as one of the most corrupt government officials of the century." Read more |
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33 Groups Urge Biden to Hold Big Tech Accountable and Keep Industry Allies Out of His Administration "We believe that eliminating the decades-old revolving door between Silicon Valley and your administration will only help your cause." Read more |
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'Housing Is Healthcare': Evictions Have Exacerbated Covid-19 Pandemic, Research Shows "This is a time where it's not an overstatement to say that for many people, eviction can lead to death." Read more |
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Six Environmental Heroes Awarded Goldman Prize for 'Taking a Stand, Risking Their Lives and Livelihoods, and Inspiring Us' This year's recipients of the annual honor hail from the Bahamas, Ecuador, France, Ghana, Mexico, and Myanmar. Read more |
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'Looking at You, Senate Majority Leader': 87 Million Could Lose Paid Leave Without Urgent Action From Congress "It's very America for us to finally require paid sick leave and family leave during the pandemic only to let it lapse before the pandemic is over." Read more |
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'A Kind of Terrorism': Israeli Human Rights Groups Offer Harrowing Look at IDF Night Raids on Palestinian Homes "You feel your privacy is being invaded," said one Palestinian victim. "The aim is to control and humiliate." Read more |
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'Another World Is Possible': Ocasio-Cortez Uses Video Gaming Platform to Raise $200,000 for Fight Against Hunger, Evictions The congresswoman was joined by Canadian progressive leader Jagmeet Singh, who spoke about bold, far-reaching policies in Canada. Read more |
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To End Impunity for 'Deliberate Destruction' of Planet, International Lawyers Drafting Plan to Criminalize Ecocide The effort aims to hold governments and corporations accountable for the "mass, systematic, or widespread destruction" of the world's ecosystems. Read more |
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'Highly Significant' Victory as European Human Rights Court Green-Lights Youth Climate Lawsuit "It gives me lots of hope to know that the judges in the European Court of Human Rights recognize the urgency of our case," said 12-year-old plaintiff André Oliveira. Read more |
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Rejecting Michèle Flournoy, Progressives Demand Biden Pick Pentagon Chief 'Untethered' From Military-Industrial Complex "We urge President-elect Joe Biden and U.S. senators to choose a secretary of defense who is unencumbered by a history of advocating for bellicose military policies and is free of financial ties to the weapons industry." Read more |
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'Reckless, Provocative, and Illegal': Sanders Warns Assassination of Iranian Scientist Designed to Kill Diplomacy "We must not allow that to happen. Diplomacy, not murder, is the best path forward." Read more |
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Citing Past Calls for Social Security Cuts, Progressives Not Pleased With Biden Pick of Neera Tanden for OMB "Everything toxic about the corporate Democratic Party is embodied in Neera Tanden." Read more |
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Swiss Fall Short in Sunday's Vote to Hold Multinational Corporations Accountable Despite winning a majority of votes, Swiss election rules—much like the US Electoral College—kills the initiative. Read more |
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The Revolving Door: Biden's National Security Nominees Cashed In on Government Service—and Now They're Back Top Biden advisers Tony Blinken, Michele Flournoy, and Lloyd Austin face new scrutiny. Read more |
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'Hunger Like They've Never Seen It Before': US Food Banks Struggle as 1 in 6 Families With Children Don't Have Enough to Eat "We're now seeing families who had an emergency fund but it's gone and they're at the end of their rope," said one Texas food bank director. Read more |
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'A Win for Voters': Rights Advocates Celebrate After Appeals Court Rejects Trump's Attempt to Block Certification of PA Election Results "The Trump campaign should end its pathetic and futile attempts to subvert democracy and ignore the will of the people." Read more |
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'Bleak Milestone': More Than 100,000 Nursing Home Residents and Staff Killed by Pandemic Forty percent of all Covid-19 deaths in the United States have occurred in long-term care facilities. Read more |
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Under Cover of Thanksgiving, Trump Administration Pushes to Relax Rules Protecting Birds The proposal—which the administration admits would likely lead to more avian deaths—would let energy and other companies off the hook for "incidentally" killing birds. Read more |
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As US Hospitalizations Hit New Record, Fauci Warns Pandemic Not Expected to Ease for Holidays As travelers ignored warnings, Thanksgiving marked the 24th consecutive day of more than 100,000 new daily Covid-19 cases in the United States. Read more |
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An 'Implicit Approval If There Ever Was One': Trump Retweets Post Calling Assassination of Iranian Scientist a 'Major' Blow "If the U.S. was involved with this assassination, it will be further evidence on top of the already heaping pile that Trump, Pompeo, and the other war hawks will do everything in their power to prevent the Biden administration from succeeding at diplomacy with Iran." Read more |
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'Intended to... Set the Stage for War'? Questions and Warnings Follow Assassination of Top Iranian Nuclear Scientist "This cowardice—with serious indications of Israeli role—shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators," said Iran's top diplomat. Read more |
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Progressive Coalition Stages Worldwide Black Friday Protests to 'Make Amazon Pay' The corporation is trying to pacify workers with holiday bonuses of $150 to $300, even though "Jeff Bezos could pay a $105,000 bonus to every Amazon worker and still be as rich as he was at the start of the pandemic." Read more |
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'Cruel Slap in the Face': Senate GOP Quietly Pushing Pay Freeze for Federal Workers Amid Deadly Pandemic "We call on lawmakers to reject this insulting maneuver," said the president of the largest union of federal employees. Read more |
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'Good But It's Not Up to Him Anyway': Trump Says He Will Leave White House If Electoral College Votes for Biden "Constitutional law professor says it doesn't matter what Trump says if the Electoral College votes for Biden." Read more |
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'We Have Won Over the Occupation': Israel Frees Maher Al-Akhras After 103-Day Hunger Strike The Palestinian father of six was released after refusing all food and drink to protest Israel's administrative detention policy. Read more |
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DOJ to Appeal Judge's Injunction Against 'Cruel, Unprecedented Policy' of Deporting Migrant Children The Trump administration—which has denied the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and seized infants from their parents—claims it is acting in the interest of public health and children. Read more |
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Amid Public Health and Employment Crises, New Survey Shows Poor Americans Agree on Policy Solutions People living in poverty across the country support a "bold policy agenda for government to make work pay and ensure that everyone has high-quality, affordable healthcare, housing, and food." Read more |
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Leading House Dems Demand 'Full Accounting' on Trump Order Allowing Purge of Federal Workforce "The creation of this schedule would be a dramatic change in the composition of the civil service and expose it to undue political influence and intimidation," the lawmakers wrote. Read more |
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'Deliberately Distorting' Reasoning for Limiting Large Religious Gatherings, SCOTUS Rules Against New York State's Restrictions "Free religious exercise is one of our most treasured and jealously guarded constitutional rights," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent. "But those principles are not at stake today." Read more |
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'One More Stain on Trump's Rapidly Diminishing Legacy': President Pardons Former Adviser Michael Flynn "One liar pardons another. What a disgrace." Read more |
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Disdain and Disbelief After Biden Claims 'Significant' Progressive Presence in Administration Leftist politicians, pundits, and people also reacted with indignation after a Daily Beast article claimed progressives are satisfied with Biden's selections so far. Read more |
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Calling for End of 'Shadow Pandemic,' Rallies Across Globe to Mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women "Men's violence against women is also a pandemic—one that pre-dates the virus and will outlive it." Read more |
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Victory for Tribes, Waterways, and Planet as Pebble Mine Denied Permit "Sometimes a project is so bad, so indefensible, that the politics fall to the wayside and we get the right decision." Read more |
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Biden Urged to 'Honor Indigenous Sovereignty and Immediately Halt' Fossil Fuel Pipelines "Our leap toward a just recovery must start with honoring treaties with sovereign Indigenous nations and returning land back to Native peoples," says a 350.org campaigner. Read more |
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'Unconscionable': ICE Deported 33 Unaccompanied Guatemalan Children After Judge Ordered Halt to Practice "It is not out of the power of the district court, if someone could raise the matter, to order ICE to return the children that it removed on that flight," said one legal expert. Read more |
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Stock Market Soars and Billionaire Wealth Swells by $1 Trillion as Food Lines Stretch 'As Far As the Eye Can See' "During the pandemic that has taken everything from millions, U.S. billionaires have now collectively gained over $1 trillion." Read more |
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'Truly Grotesque': On Way Out the Door, Trump Prioritizes Bringing Back Executions by Firing Squad and Electrocution "Over 2,000 Americans died yesterday and 266,000 are dead and the gangsters in this regime are focused on bringing back the electric chair and making it easier to spew poison in the air. The Republican Party is unfit to govern." Read more |
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With Brutal Memories of Standing Rock, Stop Line 3 Campaigners Wary of Rule Barring 'Counterinsurgency Tactics' "I've been followed for hundreds of miles along the line by different trucks," said one Indigenous organizer. "I don't know if that's counterinsurgency, but it's certainly surveillance." Read more |
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New Poll Shows 68% of Americans Want Senators to Block Any Corporate Biden Nominees Progressives are calling on the president-elect to reject a "Corporate Cabinet" and instead pick "people dedicated to working in service of the general welfare." Read more |
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100+ Public Health and Justice Leaders Call on Biden to Reject 'Global Vaccine Apartheid,' Ensure Doses 'Free and Available to All' "The U.S. government has the capacity and the authority under existing law to treat Covid-19 vaccines as global public goods." Read more |
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60% of US Voters Support Biden Canceling $50,000 of Student Loan Debt Per Person: Poll Economist Mike Konczal describes student loan debt as "an albatross around the neck of an entire generation." Read more |
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With the Planet at Stake, Climate Coalition Pressures Biden to Reject 'Corporate Shill' Ernest Moniz as Energy Chief "Ernest Moniz's 'all of the above' energy policies might be good for his friends in the coal, oil and gas industries, but they're a death sentence for us and our planet." Read more |
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To Prevent 'Another Right-Wing Authoritarian' Even Worse Than Trump, Sanders Says Democrats Must Pursue Bold Working Class Agenda The Vermont senator said Democrats in Congress and the incoming Biden administration "must have the courage to take on the powerful special interests who have been at war with the working class of this country for decades." Read more |
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'Major Test' for Soul of Biden Presidency: AOC, Ilhan Omar Back Effort to Keep Deficit Hawk Bruce Reed Out of White House "If the Biden administration is serious about protecting Medicare and Social Security, they must not appoint one of the biggest champions of cuts to lead their budget agency." Read more |
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'Flat-Out Sabotage' Already Underway as Mnuchin Tries to Put $455 Billion in Covid Funds Out of Biden Team's Reach "Burning it down on the way out the door. There is no reasonable justification for this." Read more |
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'I Stand With the Amazon Warehouse Workers': Bernie Sanders Throws Support Behind Bold Union Drive in Alabama "If Amazon workers in Alabama–a strong anti-union state–vote to form a union, it will be a shot heard around the world." Read more |
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Following Outcry, US Government Halts Deportations of Women Who Allege Medical Abuse in ICE Detention—At Least for Now "ICE and others at Irwin thought they could silence these women... But the women have organized and had the audacity to speak out." Read more |
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Defenders of US Public Schools Call on Biden to Ditch Trump's Disastrous Education Policies—and Obama's Too "50.8 million children who attend real public schools need a secretary of education who will be their advocate, not an advocate for privatization." Read more |
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'Well That Was Weird as Sh*t': As More States Certify His Defeat, Trump Holds 60-Second Briefing to Brag About Stock Market As the president refused to concede defeat, Pennsylvania and Nevada certified President-elect Joe Biden's victories and dealt a major blow to the Trump campaign's legal ploy. Read more |
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With Just 1% of Farms Controlling 70% of Global Farmland, Study Reveals 'Shocking' Level of Land Inequality "A transformative agenda... is urgent and is in the interests of all humanity." Read more |
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As Retail Giants Enjoy Soaring Profits, Workers Demand Hazard Pay Amid Soaring Pandemic "America's essential workers are facing a holiday season of unparalleled danger." Read more |
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'Brutal and Shocking': Outrage After Paris Police Violently Evict Hundreds of Migrants From Tent Encampment "To think that we will solve a social problem with police batons is totally delusional," said the mayor's advisor on housing and refugee protection. Read more |
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Demanding Reversal of Trump Cruelty, Immigrant Rights Groups Welcome Biden Pick of Mayorkas for DHS Secretary The former director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was a key architect of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and also expanded fee waivers for naturalization and immigration applications. Read more |
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Donald 'I Concede NOTHING!' Trump Retweets Utterly Unhinged Randy Quaid In one tweet thanking the actor, the president says he's "working hard to clean up the stench of the 2020 Election Hoax!" Read more |
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'Go Big, and Stay Big': Economists Call for $3 Trillion Covid Relief Package to Stop Nation's Descent Into Ruin "The Senate's failure to provide crucial relief and recovery aid has left families without a lifeline and will severely damage prospects for recovery." Read more |
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'Shameful and Concerning He Is Even Being Considered,' Says AOC as Rahm Emanuel Floated for Role in Biden Cabinet "The thing about covering up the murder of Laquan McDonald is that it disqualifies you from holding any type of public office. Forever," said Rep.-elect Cori Bush. Read more |
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As Feinstein Steps Down as Top Judiciary Democrat, Sunrise Movement Demands She Go One Step Further: 'Resign' "Feinstein lost all credibility when she showed she was more willing to treat with contempt 11-year-old climate activists demanding a livable future in her office, than the Supreme Court nominee who refused to say whether she would uphold the laws that would give that future a fighting chance." Read more |
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'Closest Thing to a Concession' Trump Could Muster, Say Observers as GSA Approves Biden Transition After Weeks of Delay "It should not have taken the ire of Congress and the American public to convince Administrator Murphy to do the right thing." Read more |
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#FeminismNotMilitarism: Peace Groups Blast Biden's DNI Pick Over Links to Drones, Torture, and Mass Surveillance CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies recently noted that Avril Haines "provided legal cover" for CIA torture and "worked closely" on the Obama administration's expanded drone policy. Read more |
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From 'Alarming Red Flag' to 'Something We Can Work With,' Campaigners Respond to Kerry as Biden Climate Envoy "This is an encouraging commitment, but it is not enough." Read more |
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High Drug Prices Could Result in Premature Deaths of More Than 1.1 Million Seniors in Next Decade: Analysis "The costs of doing nothing about high drug prices are too high." Read more |
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'The People of Michigan Have Spoken': Trump Defeat More Official Than Ever After Board Certifies Election Results A Democratic county clerk warned that a vote against certifying the results of the state's November election would "signal that democracy is dying in Michigan." Read more |
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To Prevent 'Active Sabotage' of His Agenda, Biden Urged to Clean House of Trump Loyalists on Day One "The next administration must consider all possibilities, including unconventional but legal removals, to get the federal government working for the public interest as quickly as possible." Read more |
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"Time to Cut Dirty Energy's Lifeline": Report Details How Fossil Fuel Industry Feasted on Covid-19 Relief Programs "By artificially delaying the industry's inevitable decline at taxpayers' expense, the government has made it that much harder to make the necessary transition to clean energy sources." Read more |
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'No Time to Lose for Climate Action': Atmospheric CO2 Continued to Rise in 2020 Despite Covid-19 Lockdowns The World Meteorological Organization called for "more sustained and ambitious climate action to reduce emissions to net zero through a compete transformation of our industrial, energy, and transport systems." Read more |
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'Iran in the Crosshairs?' Reports of Secret Meeting Between Netanyahu, MbS, and Pompeo Spark Fears of War Plot "It is extremely alarming that the warmongers most reliant on Trump's blank checks are secretly meeting in the middle of the night as the clock nearly runs out on the Trump administration." Read more |
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As Biden Taps Blinken as Secretary of State, Critics Denounce Support for Invasions of Iraq and Libya "In the U.S., there is no accountability for supporting the worst foreign policy disaster in modern history. Only rewards." Read more |
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'Elite Strike Force'? Trump Legal Team Throws Right-Wing Attorney Sidney Powell Under the Bus as Coup Attempt Flails "It's OK to laugh at this hilarious clown car and yet appreciate that what's going here is deadly serious. These tactics will go nowhere but still infect our democracy with doubt." Read more |
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Vaccine Access Advocates Cautiously Optimistic As G20 Summit Ends With Pledge to 'Spare No Effort' to Ensure Widespread Distribution "This is not a 'do-good' exercise. It is the only way to stop the pandemic dead in its tracks. Solidarity is indeed survival." Read more |
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Guatemalan President Reviewing Budget, Which Slashed Healthcare Spending, After Outraged Protesters Set Fire to Legislative Building "We are outraged by poverty, injustice, the way they have stolen the public's money," a psychology professor who attended the protests told the press. Read more |
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Climate Action Nonprofit Launches 'Clean Creatives' Campaign Aimed at Pressuring PR and Ad Firms to Cut Ties With Fossil Fuel Clients "PR and ad agencies pollute the airwaves so that fossil fuel companies can pollute the atmosphere." Read more |
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'A Disgrace': Trump's DOJ Schedules Three More Federal Executions in Days Before Anti-Death Penalty Biden Takes Office "We all should be paying more attention to the killing spree that the Justice Department is currently engaging in." Read more |
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Trump Skips G20 Pandemic Preparedness Meeting as Covid-19 Cases Surpass 12 Million in US "The president is not only missing from his post, but he's encouraging a mutiny." Read more |
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In 'Tremendous Rebuke' of Trump Appointee, Federal Judge Bars US Media Agency Head From Interfering in News Coverage " Michael Pack has repeatedly and intentionally violated the First Amendment rights of VOA journalists." Read more |
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Trump Administration Accused of Trying to Bully Banks Into Financing Arctic Fossil Fuel Extraction "Contrary to the claims of oil-backed politicians, banks don't want to finance more drilling in the Arctic not because of some vast liberal conspiracy, but because it's bad business," said a Sierra Club leader. Read more |
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'Looks Like the Crazy Lady Has Logged On': Rep. Ilhan Omar Welcomes QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress The incoming congresswoman attacked Omar for sparring with GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who faces a runoff election in Georgia this January. Read more |
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Let Trump Off the Hook in the Name of Elusive Unity? Some Critics Say That Could Be a Big Mistake One observer stressed that the Justice Department must "keep its options open, and not prematurely foreclose on the possibility of criminal investigations." Read more |
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Hailed as 'Heroes' During Pandemic, Retail Workers Stripped of Hazard Pay While Companies Rake in Massive Profits "While business booms and the pandemic rages, the rich are getting richer—and workers are getting sicker." Read more |
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'In Breaking the Senate, We Are Abandoning Our People': Watch AOC Excoriate McConnell on House Floor "He broke the Senate as there are thousands of people in Texas lined up for food lines. He broke the Senate while hospitals no longer have beds to house the sick." Read more |
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'Certify the Results!': GOP Michigan Lawmakers Blasted for 'Legitimizing a Fascist Coup Attempt' by Meeting With Trump Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) called the meeting between the president and two Republican state representatives "an attempt to subvert our democracy and undermine the will of Michigan voters." Read more |
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By Rejecting WTO Drug Patent Waivers Amid Pandemic, Richest Nations Put Big Pharma Profits Before Health of Billions Rich countries—accused of hoarding future vaccines—are being urged to support a "humanitarian buffer" to innoculate refugees and people in conflict zones. Read more |
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Ilhan Omar to President-elect Biden: Seize 'Once-in-a-Generation' Chance to End Disastrous US Foreign Policy In an op-ed at The Nation , the Minnesota Democrat explains how the Biden White House can forge a path "toward justice." Read more |
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Crippling Common Good Worldwide, Landmark Study Shows $427 Billion Lost Each Year to Tax Dodging by Corporations and the Rich "Now more than ever we must reprogram our global tax system to prioritize people's health and livelihoods over the desires of those bent on not paying tax." Read more |
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New 'No Corporate Cabinet' Campaign Pushes Biden to Pick People Who Will Advance Public Good "Joe Biden should not let corporate interests run the government—and, if needed, senators must hold him accountable." Read more |
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'Monstrous Behavior': Mnuchin Slammed for Biden 'Snub' That Could Sabotage US Economic Recovery On his way out the door, said one Nobel-winning economist, "Mnuchin is effectively trying to create a financial crisis.' Read more |
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'Utterly Inexcusable': Sen. Perdue of Georgia Profited From Defense Contractor's Stock While Overseeing Naval Spending "He is blatantly exploiting his office to line his own pockets," said Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff. Read more |