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Mary Robinson Suspending Vaccine Patents Is the Leadership the World Needs to End This Pandemic Intellectual property rules are not sacrosanct; this is, after all, an unprecedented crisis. Read more |
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Osprey Orielle Lake, Katherine Quaid New Report Details the Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry and the Complicit Financial Institutions "The fossil fuel industry, and their financiers, are leading us further down the path of irreparable climate disaster, and we need to understand who is being harmed first and worst by their actions." Read more |
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Bernice A. King , Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II We Must Reclaim Voting Rights as a Moral Imperative Our deepest moral and constitutional traditions point us toward the possibility of a more perfect union when we respect the basic democratic principle of one person, one vote. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores The Dirty Campaign Underlying Ecuador's "Free and Fair" Election Given all the strikes against Arauz, it is remarkable the progressive presidential candidate Andrés Arauz did so well. Read more |
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Juan Cole Anti-Science Republicans Like Jim Jordan Have Blood on Their Hands The attitude of people like Jordan is why we are heading for 600,000 dead in the pandemic. Read more |
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Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins As Nations Slash Budgets, Global Study Warns of Looming Austerity Shocks It is imperative to watch out for austerity measures with negative social outcomes. After COVID-19’s devastating impacts, austerity will only cause more unnecessary suffering and hardship. Read more |
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John Feffer Curbing the Spread Of Global Hate Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter helped right-wing populists take power. Can they now help rein them in? Read more |
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Chuck Collins A Third of U.S. Billionaire Wealth Gains Since 1990 Have Come During Pandemic U.S. billionaire pandemic profit balloons to $4.56 trillion, a 55 percent increase. Read more |
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Andrea Mazzarino A Military Spouse's Perspective on the Pentagon's Flawed Response to the Pandemic Making sense of a viral military. Read more |
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Ariel Gold, Medea Benjamin War Hawks Are Working Overtime to Derail US-Iran Diplomacy As the saboteurs of diplomacy hope for a violent escalation, let’s keep in mind—and hope Iran agrees—that the best revenge would be a revived JCPOA. Read more |
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Bill Blum What We Can Learn from the Derek Chauvin Trial After a long and shameful history of police violence against Black people, the George Floyd murder case might finally bring about some justice. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Armed Racism Keeps No One Safe A completely different form of public safety and order must emerge, transcending this armed authoritarianism with deeply racist roots. Read more |
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Norman Solomon Contrary to What Biden Said, US Warfare in Afghanistan Is Set to Continue No matter what the White House and the headlines say, U.S. taxpayers won’t stop subsidizing the killing in Afghanistan until there is an end to the bombing and "special operations" that remain shrouded in secrecy. Read more |
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Leonard Pitts Jr. Our House Continues to Burn, Yet Some Insist on Trying to Reason With Fire Tradition and aspirational values cannot matter more than the principles they are meant to serve. Read more |
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Will Bunch Police Must End Deadly, Racist Traffic Stops A cop stopped Daunte Wright for expired tags. Then, Wright died. This is intolerable. Read more |
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William Petri Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Suspension—a Doctor Explains What This Means for You I believe it is a testament to the emphasis by the CDC and FDA on vaccine safety that J&J vaccinations have been paused while this is studied by independent scientists and medical experts. Read more |
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Nicolas J.S. Davies Denis Halliday: A Voice of Reason in an Insane World "I think the United States and its populous, who vote these governments in, need to understand that the children and the people of Iraq are just like the children of the United States." Read more |
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Matthew Guariglia The Bloody Catch-22 of Modern Policing In America The system as it exists makes it almost impossible for Black and brown Americans to avoid harm. Read more |
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Rand Wilson, Peter Olney The Message from the Amazon Union Defeat in Alabama Is Clear: Keep Organizing The union's loss in Bessemer shows the urgent need for both labor law reform and organizing at a mass scale. Read more |
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Jim Hightower To Bust Monopoly Power, Start With the Companies Controlling Our Food Busting the monopoly power of abusive and arrogant food giants is broadly popular—even in Congress. Read more |
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William Janeway What We Can Learn From the First New Deal to Make the New One Better Whether it is called "Build Back Better" or a "Green Industrial Policy" or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of "jobs against climate." Read more |
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Michael Winship The Loutish Lemmings of the GOP Flailing into oblivion, the frat boy politics of the Republican Party simply may end in its unseemly collapse—or national disaster. Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs It's Time for Corporations to Pay America What They Owe Biden and Yellen are taking on the herculean job of cleaning the Augean stables after decades of rampant and growing tax abuse. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann The Republican Party Must Be Purged Like the Nazis and Fascists It must not be allowed, like the Confederacy was, to live on with its own "lost cause" BS mythology. Read more |
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Simone Tagliapietra Why the World Needs a Green Social Contract The green transformation will have far-reaching socio-economic implications. Action is needed to ensure domestic and international social equity and fairness. Read more |