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Biden Urged to Ramp Up Vaccination Effort as CDC Warns New, More Contagious Coronavirus Variant Could Soon Become Dominant in US

Hospitals across the U.S., like this one in Apple Valley, California, are overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. (Photo: Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images)

'Absolutely Outrageous': UK Judge Denies Julian Assange Bail, Keeping WikiLeaks Founder in Prison

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Shows how authoritarian the British judiciary is. The only thing the U.S. cares about is keeping Assange in a cage, silenced, and disappeared. This gives them the best of all worlds: he stays in prison, with no need to prove he's guilty of anything."

'A Huge Relief': British Judge Rejects Trump Administration Attempt to Extradite Julian Assange

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"The decision was based on the U.S. prison system being so awful and repressive that Assange would be at significant suicide risk," noted Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

"Let this be the end of it," said whistleblower Edward Snowden.

WHO Chief Says 'We Must Ensure That All People at Risk Everywhere—Not Just in Countries Who Can Afford Vaccines—Are Immunized'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Howard University Hospital staff members received Covid-19 vaccination doses on December 15, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

His comments came one year into the public health crisis and as the U.K. became...

Calling Covid-19 Crisis a 'Wake-Up Call,' WHO Experts Warn Next Pandemic Could Be Even Worse

'If You Own the Seeds You Own the Food System': Campaigners Demand Public Ownership to Counter Big Ag Privatization

With New Covid-19 Strain 70% More Transmissible, Nations Rush to Contain Spread From UK

In 'Landmark' Moment, London Coroner Lists Air Pollution as a Cause of Young Girl's Death

Campaigners Outraged After Top UK Court Overturns Ban on 'Climate-Wrecking' Third Runway at Heathrow

Assange's Partner Decries 'Atrocious' Prison Conditions in Appeal for Australian Intervention

New Report Shows How Banks and Financial Firms 'Gambling Away Our Future' by Bankrolling Oil and Gas Projects

'Severe Blow to Iraqi Torture Survivors': Despite Evidence of UK War Crimes, ICC Drops War Crimes Probe

'Not a Criminal': Top UN Anti-Torture Official Urges Julian Assange's Release

By Rejecting WTO Drug Patent Waivers Amid Pandemic, Richest Nations Put Big Pharma Profits Before Health of Billions

More Than Two-Thirds of UN Members Embrace Global Plastic Pollution Treaty—But Not the US

'Greatest Journalist of His Generation': Robert Fisk, Veteran War Reporter and Fierce Critic of US Imperialism, Dead at 74

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London As It Is

Lest we forget, amidst the post-Brexit chaos and hate crimes there is this: Protests, flashmobs, media campaigns, petitions to revote, widespread assertions of our common humanity, and this fabulous selfie of London Mayor Sadiq Khan breaking Ramadan fast with Christians, Jews, Sikhs, young people all insisting, Yes, we can live like this. One U.K. pol on Brexit: "This isn’t taking our country back, this is turning Britain into a place we have never, ever been."