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Highlighting 'Extreme Carbon Inequality,' Oxfam Study Shows World's Richest 1% Emit More Than Twice as Much CO2 as Poorest 50%

Calls for Major Reforms After Leaked Docs Detail How Big Banks Help Criminals and Oligarchs Launder Their 'Dirty Cash'

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

"The FinCEN Files reveal that the system we've established to follow that money is broken. It's time to overhaul our anti-money laundering system and prioritize the fight against illicit finance."

Climate Crisis Fears Growing Across Globe, Study Shows, With Concern Highest Among Most Vulnerable

Lisa Newcomb, staff writer

"This is a year of vulnerability and exacerbation of inequality and those most...

'A Farce': Trump Critics, European Allies Challenge Pompeo Claim About Snapback of UN Sanctions on Iran

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House June 20, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

"With a track record of failure on Iran, the Trump administration's spin...

Amid Pandemic and Endless War, 170+ Global Organizations Urge World Leaders to 'Recommit to Peace Today'

Billionaires Called to Pay It Back as UN Warns of 'Wave of Hunger and Famine' That Could Rock Globe

As Advocates Demand Media 'Cover the Crisis,' Poll Shows Voters Want Comprehensive Reporting on Climate Crisis

'Delay, Distract, and Derail': New Report Reveals How Plastic Polluters Have Avoided Regulation Worldwide for Decades

'Best News in Quite a While': Dramatically Lower Flu Rates in Southern Hemisphere Offer Hope

Rich Nations Hoarding Potential Covid-19 Vaccine Doses, Warns Oxfam

Daniel Ellsberg Tells UK Court That US Seeks Both 'Revenge' Against Julian Assange and to 'Crush' Future Whistleblowers

'Internationalism or Extinction'? Global Coalition Invites Progressives Worldwide to Attend Inaugural Summit

For Palestinians and Their Supporters, Arab-Israeli Pacts Are 'A Stab in The Back' Amid Ongoing Oppression

Global Coalition Issues Liability 'Roadmap' to Make Big Corporate Polluters Pay for Planetary Harm

UN Biodiversity Report Urges 8 Transitions Needed to Restore Essential Ecosystems Impacted by Humanity

'Huge Victory for Net Neutrality': Top EU Court Rebuffs Zero-Rating Schemes

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So That Everyone Knows: From Jim Crow To Josef Mengele

The gruesome revelations of black nurse, hero and whistleblower Dawn Wooten on forced sterilizations and "jarring medical neglect" of women held in ICE detention centers - where "only God is taking care of us here" - reflect not just the long grim history of such American atrocities, but what they spawned. From Never Again Is Now: "It's not just that our government is using the Nazi playbook. It's that they're halfway through it" - and that the Nazis studied U.S. racist policies to create it.