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To End Crushing Debt, Warren Introduces Relief Package to Help Storm-Ravaged Puerto Rico 'Recover With Dignity' "Over the past several years, Puerto Rico has been living with an economic noose around its neck due to its crippling debt crisis and the devastation created by Hurricane Maria." Read more |
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President Accused of 'Another Blatant Violation' of Constitution Over Reports Foreign Officials Rented Luxury Condos From Trump "Unless Congress impeaches him, he'll do anything he wants." Read more |
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Peace Activists Arrested While Trying to Deliver Food and Medicine to Blockaded DC Venezuelan Embassy Members of the Embassy Protection Collective have lived on the property with permission from the Maduro government for weeks Read more |
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'Microcosm of Everything Wrong With US Foreign Policy': Senate Fails to Override Trump Veto on Yemen "Congress has a moral duty to continue pushing for an end to U.S. military involvement in Yemen." Read more |
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Rejecting Extradition to US, Assange Tells UK Court His Award-Winning Journalism Has Protected 'Many People' The hearing kicked off a legal battle that is expected to last many months, as the WikiLeaks founder serves a 50-week sentence for skipping bail Read more |
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Watch GOP Ranking Member of House Judiciary Make Case for Democrats to Start Trump Impeachment Hearings If Chairman Jerold Nadler was to initiate impeachment, said Rep. Doug Collins, "he would have access to all kinds of documents." Read more |
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Supporters Credit 'Relentless' Campaigning of Sunrise Movement as Beto Signs No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge The 2020 Democratic candidate said questions about the pledge from young voters had driven him to sign it Read more |
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'Send Him to Jail': Calls to Arrest Barr for Contempt After AG Refuses to Show Up for House Hearing "Barr's defiance of the committee isn't happening in a vacuum: It's part of a sweeping effort by President Trump's administration to defy nearly all oversight by Congress." Read more |
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'Difference Between Democracy and Dictatorship': Dems Threaten Barr With Contempt Over Refusal to Testify Barr's refusal to testify before House Judiciary tomorrow and Trump's blanket refusal to comply with all subpoenas and requests from the House flouts our Constitutional checks and balances. Read more |
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'Tired of Getting Ripped Off,' Key Swing District Voters Want Candidates Willing to Take on Big Pharma: Poll "Everybody knows that drug prices in the U.S. are unsustainable and appalling, and that voters are mad as hell about them." Read more |
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'We Teach, We Vote!': 10,000 Teachers Rise Up Against Republican Legislature in Deep Red South Carolina "For too long we have allowed our schools to go underfunded while taking the blame for the host of issues that come with that." Read more |
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'Important' Bill in Congress Would Bar Israel From Using U.S. Funds to Imprison, Abuse Palestinian Children "Israel's system of military juvenile detention is state-sponsored child abuse designed to intimidate and terrorize Palestinian children and their families." Read more |
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Pentagon: American Public Doesn't Need to Know How Much Territory We've Lost in Afghanistan "The only people who don't know what's going on are the people who are paying for all of this, and that's the American taxpayer." Read more |
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'Nice But Extremely Insufficient': Critics Warn Bill to Keep US in Paris Agreement No Solution to Climate Emergency "Given all that's known about the severity of the climate crisis we face, and the urgent, aggressive action required to stem it, this legislation is merely symbolic." Read more |
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Pompeo Says US Prepared to Take Military Action in Venezuela "If That's What's Required" "The team that brought you Iraq seems to thrive on death, destruction, and spending workers' hard earned tax dollars," said one anti-war activist Read more |
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Because 'The House Is on Fire,' Naomi Klein Takes Centrism-Obsessed Media to Task for Failed Climate Coverage "You can't leave it all to the markets." Read more |
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Biden Sides With Trump, Bolton, and Pompeo in Backing Coup Effort in Venezuela Democratic frontrunner characterizes effort to overthrow elected goverment of President Nicolas Maduro at gunpoint just another benign effort to "restore democracy" in Latin America Read more |
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Workers Around World Mark May Day With Marches and Rallies Demanding Fair Wages and Workplace Justice "Our rights weren't gifted. They were won by workers who refused to accept second best." Read more |
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'Activism Works': UK Parliament Makes History in Declaring Climate Emergency "Now we must act on it" Read more |
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Ahead of Key Hearing on US Extradition, Assange Gets 50 Weeks in Prison for UK Bail Violation WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson described the upcoming hearing as "the start of the big and most important fight." Read more |
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After Trump Retweet, User Changes Name to 'F*** Donald Trump' and Profile Photo to 'Bernie 2020' "In all seriousness, our president is an awful, hateful human being who wants nothing more than to keep the status quo and hatred prevalent," wrote the Twitter user who trolled Trump Read more |
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"If This Isn't an 'Armed Coup,' Then What the Hell Is?" US Denounced for Backing Attempted Overthrow in Venezuela "Who are the punks? Who are the bullies? Let me say their names... Donald Trump. Mike Pence. John Bolton. Mike Pompeo. Elliott Abrams. Marco Rubio." Read more |
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'We Cannot Stand for This Deception': Democrats Demand Probe Into Barr Amid News of Mueller Criticism "Barr's spin on the Mueller report shows he's acting like the president's lawyer, not the American people's lawyer." Read more |
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Green Groups Say Trump EPA Backing Monsanto's Claim Glyphosate Not a Health Threat 'Completely Ignores Science' "Under the control of Trump and Wheeler, the agency is virtually incapable of taking steps to protect people from dangerous chemicals like glyphosate." Read more |
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Ahead of Key Parliament Vote, Poll Shows Two-Thirds of UK Voters Agree With Extinction Rebellion on Climate Emergency "Climate activists, young and old, have put the U.K. government under enormous pressure to officially recognize the climate emergency we are facing." Read more |
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New Report Names Nearly 4,000 Companies Profiting Off of Private Prison Industry "Today, more than half of the $80 billion spent annually on incarceration by government agencies is used to pay the thousands of vendors that serve the criminal legal system." Read more |
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More Than 90% of Democratic Voters Want 2020 Candidate to Make Climate Action and Medicare for All Top Priorities: Poll "People are waking up!" Read more |
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As Bernie Sanders Says 'No Apologies' for His Position, 70+ Groups Back Call for Prisoner Voting Rights The advocacy organizations called on all 2020 presidential candidates to "publicly commit to ending felony disenfranchisement" Read more |
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While Corporate Profits and Tax-Dodging Soared, Analysis Shows Just 6% of GOP 'Tax Scam' Benefits Went to Workers In addition to promises that turned out to be "meaningless," the Republican tax reform effort included "egregious mistakes" that opened the system to increased corporate fraud Read more |
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'Stop What You’re Doing and Watch': Applause and Gratitude for Ady Barkan's Emotional Medicare for All Testimony "I cannot think of a better person to highlight the failings of our health care system and what we must do to provide health care for all." Read more |
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Sanders Calls on 2020 Candidates to Pledge Opposition to 'Unfair' Trade Deals That Put Corporate Interests Ahead of US Workers "What we have seen over the last many years is one disastrous trade policy after another... It has led to a race to the bottom." Read more |
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Mike Pence Confirms: 'We Are With' Coup Plotters in Venezuela The Vice President's affirmation of U.S. support was echoed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton Read more |
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WATCH: Medicare for All in the Spotlight at Historic Congressional Hearing "We are creating a movement that makes it clear that when we win Medicare for All, it will be because of the people's movement!" said Rep. Pramila Jayapal Read more |
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'The Moment Is Now': Clashes Erupt After US-Backed Guaido Calls for Military Uprising in Venezuela Elected government of President Nicolas Maduro vows to end coup attempt orchestrated by "traitors" supported by Trump administration Read more |
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'The Statue of Liberty Is Not a Toll Booth': Outrage as Trump Moves to Impose Fees on Asylum Seekers "Charging asylum application fees puts a dollar amount on helping migrants escape persecution. It is pure villainy." Read more |
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Climate Groups Applaud Beto for New Proposal, But Warn Action Plan Would Be 'Too Little, Too Late' "Beto's decision to release a climate plan as his first policy...shows that climate change is going to be central in the 2020 Democratic primaries. If he wants to earn the support of young people he needs to show he's ready to stand up to the oil and gas lobby." Read more |
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Citing Recent Protests, Wales Declares Climate Emergency Announcement comes days before UK vote in Commons on possible climate emergency declaration. Read more |
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Watch: In Under Three Minutes, Labour Party Shows How Benefits for Working Families Help the Economy Five ordinary British voters quickly put pay raises and other benefits back into economy, while billionaires simply send their tax cuts "to the Cayman Islands with the rest" Read more |
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'Outrageous': Company Spied on Family Separation Protests, Gave Info to DHS New reporting says LookingGlass Cyber Solutions spied on Americans and gave the information to DHS and ICE "unsolicited." Read more |
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'Call It a Crisis': New Report Details Failure of Cable and Network Outlets to Accurately Describe Climate Emergency "Words matter." Read more |
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"Great Collection of #KeepItInTheGround Leaders" Awarded This Year's Goldman Prize The six recipients of the annual environmental award are from Chile, the Cook Islands, Liberia, Mongolia, North Macedonia, and the United States Read more |
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Demanding Medicare for All, Nurses Use Band-Aids to Plaster GoFundMe Pages to Big Pharma Headquarters "Nobody should have a GoFundMe account to pay for their healthcare, and we're here to make sure that that stops." Read more |
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'Superbugs' Could Kill 10 Million Annually Without Urgent Action, Warns New Report "Unless the world acts urgently, antimicrobial resistance will have disastrous impact within a generation," says new publication. Read more |
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5.1 Billion People Denied Real Justice Within World's Woeful Legal Systems: Study "Injustice feeds further injustice." Read more |
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Championing Female Voters as Powerful 'Supermajority,' Organizers Launch Movement to Fight for Women's Agenda "One of us can be dismissed. Two can be dismissed. But together, we aren't just the majority, we are a Supermajority—and we are unstoppable." Read more |
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Led by US Under Trump, Global Military Spending Soared to Highest Level in Recorded History Last Year New analysis shows countries around the world spent a total of $1.82 trillion in 2018, with the U.S. and China in top spots Read more |
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Following Trump Rally, Nurse Smashes 'Perhaps One of the Sickest Accusations Levied by This Deranged Dictator Yet' The president reasserted the anti-choice lie at a Wisconsin rally. Read more |
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Rejecting Trump Spin, 62% of Americans Believe US Economy Primarily Benefits Rich and Powerful Nearly three-quarters of Americans also think the political system mainly rewards those in power, according to a new survey Read more |
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'What Are You Trying to Hide?' Democrats Threaten Subpoena as Barr Suggests Canceling Testimony "The witness is not going to tell the committee how to conduct its hearing, period," said Rep. Jerry Nadler Read more |
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Running on Green New Deal and Economic Justice, Socialists Prevail in Spain's Snap Election While the rise of the far-right, xenophobic Vox Party sparked alarm, it performed well below expectations Read more |
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The Declare a 'Climate Emergency' Movement Grows as Scotland Joins Also, UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launched a bid to declare a climate emergency in the United Kingdom Read more |
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Dying Healthcare Activist Ady Barkan to Testify at Congress's First-Ever Medicare for All Hearing "It will take immense effort and teamwork for me to attend this hearing, but that is what is required—from me and thousands of other healthcare heroes—to deliver us the change that the American people deserve." Read more |
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Amid Fears of Federal Attack on Roe, Kansas Supreme Court Guarantees Right to Abortion in the Conservative State The court explicitly wrote that "like men," pregnant women have the "right to personal autonomy" in Kansas Read more |
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Rebuking Trump, 50th US Community Affirms 'Refugees Welcome' With New Resolution "Help us make America exceptional again through the radical act of kindness." Read more |
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Vendors Leave Progressive Challenger's Primary Campaign Over 'Galling' DCCC Threat "Consultants who planned to work with Newman said that the DCCC delivered the warning in the nicest terms possible—but that it was a very clear threat to their ability to do business with the DCCC." Read more |
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As UN Climate Chief Urges Immediate Action to Save Planet, Extinction Rebellion's New Book Gets Rushed to Press "Now or never, we need to be radical. We need to rise up. And we need to rebel." Read more |
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Making Case for Green New Deal, Abdul El-Sayed Argues It's Also a Public Health New Deal As Detroit's health director, "I realized that the forces that cause climate change are the same forces that poisoned the lungs of babies in my city." Read more |
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Pentagon Pushed for Weakened Regulations on Toxic Chemicals, Endangering Drinking Water of Millions of Americans The Trump administration "seems hell-bent on giving industrial and military polluters a pass despite the clear and present danger these chemicals represent for our health," one critic said Read more |
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"I Hope You're Happy": In Middle of NRA Speech, Trump Signs Order to Withdraw From Global Arms Treaty Human right groups denounced the president's move as a "misguided blow to efforts to promote international peace and security." Read more |
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Judge Gives Trump Admin Six Months to Identify Thousands of Children It Ripped From Families "The government was able to quickly gather resources to tear these children away from their families and now they need to gather the resources to fix the damage." Read more |
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As Anita Hill Speaks Out, Joe Biden Dogged by Criticisms on First Day of 2020 Campaign "May Anita Hill always be trending every time Joe Biden is." Read more |
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Latest 'Wake-Up Call' of Climate Emergency as Historic Cyclone Hits Still Reeling Mozambique As aid groups call for global assistance, campaigner says unfolding disaster "is a tragedy that points to the bigger crisis that humanity is faced with." Read more |
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'Landmark' Victory for First Amendment as Court Strikes Down Texas Anti-BDS Law Bahia Amawi, a speech pathologist who lost her job due to the law, celebrated the ruling as "a huge win not just for me, but for everybody here in Texas." Read more |
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Progressives Raise Alarm Over Lack of Single Payer Supporters Chosen to Testify at Historic Medicare for All Hearing "What they want is a hearing that's not about Medicare for All. They want someone to say, 'Hey, there's all these different ways of doing things, none of them are bad, they're all equally good.'" Read more |
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Indivisible Asks Candidates to Sign Pledge Promising a Democratic Primary Based on Exchange of Ideas Instead of Attacks "Democrats do not need to choose between creating space for a healthy primary debate and taking back the White House in 2020." Read more |
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Groups Warn Against Trump Effort to Unleash 'Fracking Frenzy' by Unlocking Million+ Acres of Public Land for Drilling "There's no place for this backwards plan in California's clean energy future." Read more |
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Economists Warn Trump's Sanctions Targeting Venezuela 'A Death Sentence for Tens of Thousands of People' "It's a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people." Read more |
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'Trump Lied to Wisconsin Workers': Sanders Targets President With Front-Page Ad Ahead of Weekend Rally "Our message to President Trump as he visits Green Bay: you're not going to get away with your lies any longer. We'll defeat you and protect American jobs." Read more |
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Warren Wins Applause for Addressing High Black Maternal Mortality Rates, But Experts Say Plan to Fix Crisis Needs Work "When it actually comes time to make policy, you have to bring all the stakeholders to the table." Read more |
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Civil Rights Group Demands Facebook Take Down Content Showing Far-Right Militants Holding Migrants Hostage "These videos include content showing possible assault, kidnapping and false imprisonment, among other illegal acts." Read more |
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Florida GOP Condemned for Undermining Hard-Won Voting Rights for Felons With 'Modern Day Poll Tax' "Disturbingly, this legislation will cause de facto lifetime disenfranchisement for large swaths of formerly incarcerated individuals who have completed their sentences." Read more |
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After 'Wink' From Trump When a Journalist Butchered, Says Iran's Foreign Minister, 'Not a Whisper' When Saudis Behead 37 "Membership in the #B_team —Bolton, Bin Salman, Bin Zayed, and 'Bibi'— gives immunity for any crime." Read more |
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US-Led Bombing Campaign in Syria Killed 1,600 Civilians and Left Raqqa 'Most Destroyed City in Modern Times': Study "Coalition forces razed Raqqa, but they cannot erase the truth." Read more |
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Hours After Entering 2020 Race, Biden to Attend Big-Money Fundraiser Hosted by Comcast, Blue Cross Execs "The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America America is at stake," the former vice president said in his announcement Read more |
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As Supreme Court's Right-Wing Justices Indicate Siding With Trump, Opponents Denounce 'Bald-Faced Attempt to Racially Rig' US Census "This case isn't just about a line on a form. It's about whether or not everyone in America counts." Read more |
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Digital Rights Defenders Sound Alarm Over Big Tech's Efforts to 'Erode' California's Landmark Privacy Law "We will not let them kill strong privacy bills in the dark." Read more |
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Kushner Talks of 'Accountability' for Crown Prince Just as Saudis Offer 'Egregious Display of Brutality' With Mass Beheadings Washington's Gulf Institute director Ali Al-Ahmed called the killings "the largest mass execution of Shiites in the kingdom's history." Read more |
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Democrats and Progressives Grapple With How Best to Vanquish Trump: Impeach, Bold Ideas, or Both? "Just about every Democrat agrees that the Donald Trump presidency has been a nightmare, and that the sooner it ends the better. How we get there is less certain." Read more |
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'Profound Implications for Justice': Report Shows Extent of Inequality Exacerbated by Climate Crisis "If climate change is particularly bad for poor countries, that means climate change would make elimination of poverty extremely difficult." Read more |
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To Escalate Fight Against 'Existential Crisis,' Greta Thunberg Backs General Strike for Climate "It is something that will affect the future of our civilization. It's not just a movement. It's a crisis and we must take action accordingly." Read more |
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'Coming Mass Extinction' Caused by Human Destruction Could Wipe Out 1 Million Species, Warns UN Draft Report Far-reaching global assessment details how humanity is undermining the very foundations of the natural world Read more |
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Seen as Face of Global Far-Right Extremism, Trump State Visit to UK Spurs Call for Mass Protest "Deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic, Donald Trump is no friend of Britain." Read more |