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Jon Queally

Jon Queally is managing editor for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @jonqueally

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A woman stands with a poster reading 'Where is Roman (Protasevich)?!' in the arrival area as passengers disembark from a Ryanair passenger plane from Athens, Greece, that was intercepted and diverted to Minsk on the same day by Belarus authorities. News
Monday, May 24, 2021
'State Treachery to the Extreme': Belarus Accused of Inventing Airplane Bomb Threat to Arrest Dissident Journalist
Press freedom advocates and human rights groups overnight expressed outrage and called for the immediate release of journalist Raman Pratasevich after the government of Belarus on Sunday scrambled a military fighter jet in its airspace to intercept a commercial aircraft and then arrested the well-...
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Billionaire Bill Gates on Sunday argued against a temporary patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organization during an interview with Sky News. (Photo: Screenshot/Sky News) News
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Share Vaccine Recipes With Poor During Pandemic? One of World's Richest Men Bill Gates Says 'No'
Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men and most powerful philanthropists, was the target of criticism from social justice campaigners on Sunday after arguing that lifting patent protections on Covid-19 vaccine technology and sharing recipes with the world to foster a massive ramp up in...
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Doctor Emory Lewis gives a memory test to new Medicare patient, Helen Kinne, 88-years-old, while a concerned daughter, Deborah Kinne, looks on, at the family clinic in Reedville, Virginia, Monday, December 12, 2011. With approximately 65 percent of his patients insured by Medicare, Doctor Lewis, is closely watching the upcoming DocFix vote in Congress. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images) News
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Sanders, Warren Lead Call for Biden to Embrace 'Historic' Medicare Expansion
President Joe Biden's top challenger in last year's Democratic primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, spearheaded a letter sent to the White House on Sunday urging the president to embrace an "historic opportunity" and include key expansions to the U.S. Medicare program when he announces a...
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A nurse prepares an injection of a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine during the launch of the vaccination campaign for 5000 frontline workers in the tourism and hospitality sector in Nairobi county at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 21, 2021. (Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images) News
Saturday, April 24, 2021
'Utterly Disgusting': Big Pharma Lobby Blitz Against Vaccine Patent Waivers Denounced
As campaigners worldwide continue their efforts to unleash live-saving vaccine patents and technology from the profitable control of major pharmaceutical corporations this week, new reporting by The Intercept details the " army of lobbyists " Big Pharma has aimed at U.S. lawmakers in order to...
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People hold portraits of Armenian intellectuals—who were detained and deported in 1915—during a rally on Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul on April 24, 2018, held to commemorate the 103nd anniversary of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Armenians say up to 1.5 million people were killed during World War I as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart, a claim supported by many other countries. Turkey fiercely rejects the genocide label. (Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images) News
Saturday, April 24, 2021
To 'Honor the Victims' of 20th Century Atrocity, Biden Recognizes Armenian Genocide
U.S. President Joe Biden cracked many decades of U.S. government silence on Saturday by publicly and officially recognizing that the systematic killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottomans during the First World War was—as historians , survivors, and their descendants have long...
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A box of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine doses are pictured at Grubb's Pharmacy on Capitol Hill in this file photo. On Tuesday, the CDC and FDA issued an official recommendation to pause use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine out of what agencies called "an abundance of caution," citing a "rare and severe type of blood clot" in some individuals after receiving the single-dose shot. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) News
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
'Out of Abundance of Caution,' FDA and CDC Recommend Pause of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 Vaccine
This is a breaking news story... Check back for possible updates... The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued an official recommendation to pause the use of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine out what the agencies called an "abundance of...
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Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said at a Monday news conference accused Israel of being behind an attack on the Natanz nuclear facility and vowed revenge for the attack of sabotage that outside critics is clearly aimed a scuttling diplomatic efforts between Tehran, the U.S., and others. (Photo: PressTV) News
Monday, April 12, 2021
Iran Says Israeli 'Nuclear Terrorism' Could Have Led to Catastrophic 'Crime Against Humanity'
Iran's Foreign Ministry said Monday that an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility over the weekend, which it accused Israel of carrying out, could have led to a catastrophic "crime against humanity" if the damage had been more extreme than what occurred. "If Israel is behind this while [Defense...
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Members of the Inuit Ataqatigiit (AI) Party wave party flags as they celebrate following the exit polls results of the legislative election in Nuuk, on April 6, 2021. Greenland went to the polls on April 6 after an election campaign focused on a disputed mining project in the autonomous Danish territory, as the Arctic island confronts the impact of global warming. (Photo: Emil Helms / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP) News
Wednesday, April 07, 2021
'The People Have Spoken': Left-Wing, Indigenous-Led Party Vows to Stop Greenland Uranium Mining Project After Historic Win
Members of the left-wing and Indigenous-led Inuit Ataqatigiit (AI) party in Greenland celebrated late Tuesday after winning a majority of parliamentary seats in national elections and vowed to use their new power to block controversial rare-earth mining projects in the country. Poll results...
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LGBTQ activists and their supporters rally in support of transgender people on the steps of New York City Hall, October 24, 2018 in New York City. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) News
Tuesday, April 06, 2021
Arkansas GOP Condemned for Veto Override That Continues 'Discriminatory Crusade Against Trans Youth'
Defenders of LGBTQ rights denounced Republican legislators in Arkansas on Tuesday for overriding a veto by Gov. Asa Hutchinson just a day earlier that had been seen as a hard-won victory for the trans youth and other gender nonconforming people in the state. "Attempting to block trans youth from...
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Climate campaigners disrupt then Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden during a campaign event on October 9, 2019 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images) News
Monday, April 05, 2021
Sunrise Plans Dozens of Actions Nationwide to Demand Jobs Guarantee, $10 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
Climate justice campaigners with the youth-led Sunrise Movement are organizing online and in-person actions this week to demand U.S. congressional lawmakers back a federal jobs guarantee the group says will "be the backbone of building a just, sustainable, and people-centered new economy." The push...
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