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To Stop Trump's War with Iran, We Must Also Confront the Democrats Who Laid...
Since President Trump took office in 2017, the leadership of the Democratic Party has overwhelmingly supported the precursors to today's dangerous U.S. escalation towards Iran: sanctions, proxy...
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Buttigieg and Centrist Dems Want a Military Response to Climate Change....
Mayor Pete Buttigieg says that if he were elected president, he would use the Department of Defense to fight climate change by creating "a senior climate security role in the Secretary of Defense's...
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Covid-19 Is a Reason To Start the Green New Deal Now
Our political leaders, Republican and Democrat, are leaving tens of millions of people in free fall. Instead of a guaranteed income and universal, single-payer healthcare, we are offered paltry,...
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First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You're Praised for Sending in Aid.
The United Nations describes itself in its charter as an international moral authority created to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." But activists who are trying to end the U.S....
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"Colonizing the Atmosphere": How Rich, Western Nations Drive the Climate Crisis
The climate disaster fueling unprecedented fires across the western United States, threatening to swallow the Marshall Islands into the ocean, and unleashing perennial hunger crises on South Sudan is...
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Biden's Hawkish Foreign Policy Picks Are a Very Bad Sign
There was no reason to think that a Biden administration would be to the left of the Obama administration when it comes to foreign policy. Biden comes with a long political career of supporting the...
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Congress Is Deadlocked on Covid Relief But Came Together to Fund the Pentagon...
The annual approval of the gargantuan U.S. military budget is one of the most reliable rituals in Congress. It is so ordinary and overwhelmingly bipartisan, it's barely considered newsworthy, and few...
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Biden's Defense Secretary Pick Shows the Revolving Door for Military...
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped retired Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III for the powerful role of defense secretary, news outlets revealed December 7. Speculation over who Biden would pick had been...
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Pfizer Helped Create the Global Patent Rules. Now It's Using Them to Undercut...
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, whose Covid-19 vaccine with German partner BioNTech was approved December 11 for emergency use in the United States, has emerged as a vocal opponent of a global effort...
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Biden Must Reject Trump's WTO Policy That Could Lead to "Vaccine Apartheid"...
President-elect Joe Biden has repeatedly pledged that, in contrast to President Trump, his administration will act swiftly and effectively to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. But so far, the incoming...
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Congress Needs to Force Biden to End the Yemen War
Yemen is in a catastrophic state," says Kawthar Abdullah, an organizer with the Yemeni Alliance Committee. "I have family there. Every day when I call and talk to them, the reality on the ground is...
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We Can't Let Pro-War Generals Who Lied About the Afghanistan War Define Its...
The horrific culmination of the 20-year U.S. occupation of Afghanistan should be cause for sober reflection on the imperial hubris and bipartisan pro-war consensus that enabled such a ruinous military...
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When Military Contractors Fund Their Own Pro-War Think Tanks
On August 12, the military contractor CACI International Inc. told its investors that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is hurting its profits. The same contractor is also funding a think tank that...
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Afghan Activist: We All Deserve Refuge, Not Just Those Who Served the US
Following the Taliban's seizure of power, people across the political spectrum have expressed concern about the fate of Afghans who helped the United States and are therefore at risk of retribution....
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We Wasted 20 Years Fighting the War on Terror Instead of Climate Change
Twenty years into a nebulous "War on Terror," the United States is in the grips of a full-fledged climate crisis. Hurricane Ida, whose severity is a direct result of human-made climate change, flooded...
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Big Pharma Lies About Vaccine Patents to Protect Profits
Big Pharma has been caught in a lie that implicates not only major Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, but also heads of state and members of Congress. Tracking how the lie spread, and who spouted it,...
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Think Tank Funded by the Weapons Industry Pressures Biden Not to Regulate...
The Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, is publicly opposing a new Biden administration regulation that would force the weapons industry to report its greenhouse gas emissions...
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Democrats Slash $5 Billion in Global Covid Aid--With Biden Already Behind on...
As the Biden administration falls woefully behind on its pledges to donate Covid vaccines to the world, on Wednesday, the U.S. House slashed $5 billion for the global pandemic response from an omnibus...
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Activists Say New 'Compromise' on IP Waiver for Covid Vaccines Is Worse Than...
On Tuesday, after a year and a half of negotiations over an intellectual property waiver for Covid-related products, the United States, European Union, India and South Africa reportedly reached...
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Weapons Industry Exploits Ukraine War as Profits Pile Up
Since the pandemic began in early 2020, the weapons industry has argued that shutdowns and supply chain disruptions have put the "defense industrial base" in peril, compromising the national security...
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The US Spent 7.5 Times More on Nuclear Weapons Than Global Vaccine Donations
Since the pandemic began, the United States has spent 7.5 times more money on nuclear weapons than on global vaccine donations. Stated another way, the money put towards global vaccine donations has...
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Biden Broke His Promise to Support Generic Covid-19 Vaccines for the World
Today marks one year since the Biden administration said it would support "waiving intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines" at the World Trade Organization (WTO). At the time, the...
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Biden's Silence on an Intellectual Property Waiver Speaks Volumes
Just over a year ago, on May 5, 2021, the Biden administration pledged that it would support "waiving intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines" at the World Trade Organization (WTO), in...
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The Pentagon Is Funding the Same Gunmakers Democrats Want to Regulate
In response to the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 children and two adults dead, President Biden called for a reckoning. "As a nation, we have to ask,...
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No, Your Boss Shouldn't Determine Your Access to Abortion Care
Following last week's Supreme Court ruling that struck down federal protections for abortion rights, major companies, including a number of Silicon Valley giants, publicly broadcast their intention to...
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Joe Manchin Is a Jobs-Killer
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), claims on his website that creating jobs is his "top priority," and has used this status as a "job creator" to justify his outsized role in blocking climate action, even as...
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Millions of Afghans Are Starving as US Stalls on Returning Central Bank Funds
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 and, in response, Europe, the United Arab Emirates and the United States froze the Afghan central bank's roughly $9 billion in foreign assets--$7...
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2023 Military Budget Far Exceeds NLRB Funding for Workers
Draft text of the congressional omnibus spending bill released this week reveals a proposed $25 million increase in funding to the National Labor Relations Board, which would bring the agency's 2023...
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US Military's 2023 Budget Boost Is 3,200 Times Larger Than NLRB's Increase
Draft text of the congressional omnibus spending bill released last week reveals a proposed $25 million increase in funding to the National Labor Relations Board, which would bring the agency’s 2023...
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The False Narrative That Pits Workers Against a Cleaner Energy Future
In recent media coverage of the United Auto Workers’ stand-up strike against the Big Three car makers—Stellantis, Ford, and General Motors—a false narrative is circulating: that the walkout is in...
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