Chilean Indigenous Activist Says COP27 Promoted Devastating Mega-Projects
The World North’s scramble for energy-secure futures dominated the COP27 final week in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Company and mining lobbyists promoted high speed trains, lithium car batteries, hydrogen mega projects, and wind farms to transition from fossil fuels and cut back carbon emissions whereas Indigenous activists resisted those self same initiatives that are already inflicting […]
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Why Current Congress Shouldn’t Pass Omnibus Spending Bill
It’s official: Republicans have received a majority within the U.S. Home of Representatives. The clock is ticking on the 117th Congress, whose last session, an notorious lame-duck session, lately commenced. It’s anticipated to be a busy time on Capitol Hill for Democrats as they search to take as a lot floor as doable earlier than […]
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Sunak’s Brexit problems run far deeper than “Swiss” deal rumours
Almost three years after the UK left the EU, the battles round what Brexit means in follow are nonetheless very a lot rumbling on within the background. Be it the Northern Eire protocol invoice, the excellent points over EU retained regulation, or the rows over what to with migration, Brexit, whereas relegated from its mainstay […]
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Railroad Workers’ Strike Could Begin as Soon as December 9, Union Says
The most important railroad staff union in the USA introduced Monday that its members voted to reject a contract negotiated with the assistance of the Biden White Home, as soon as once more elevating the prospect of a serious strike or lockout as staff revolt over profitable rail giants’ refusal to offer sufficient paid sick […]
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Austin AFL-CIO Council Urges Biden to End Medicare Privatization Scheme
The labor council of the Austin, Texas AFL-CIO has handed a decision urging the Biden administration to terminate a Medicare privatization scheme that’s quietly shifting forward regardless of vocal opposition from medical doctors, seniors, and progressive lawmakers. The pilot program, which inserts personal middlemen between sufferers and healthcare suppliers, was unveiled with little discover throughout […]
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Georgia Set to Become Only State With Work Requirements for Medicaid Coverage
Georgia is ready to develop into the one state to have work necessities for Medicaid protection. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s reelection — and a stunning Biden administration choice to not attraction a federal courtroom ruling — have freed the state to introduce its plan that might enable for a restricted enhance within the pool of […]
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5 Dead in Colorado LGBTQ Club Shooting on Eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance
A gunman sporting physique armor and armed with an AR-15-style rifle attacked an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs late Saturday evening, killing 5 folks and injuring no less than 25. Two Membership Q patrons managed to disarm the shooter, a 22-year-old suspect with ties to an extremist household, earlier than he was taken into police […]
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Tackling illegal migration is ‘number one priority’, Sunak tells CBI
Rishi Sunak addressed the Confederation of British Trade’s (CBI) annual convention in Birmingham on Monday afternoon, telling the assembled media and enterprise leaders that unlawful migration is his “primary precedence”. The prime minister’s speech was billed to give attention to innovation, however a lot of that debate on Monday centered on immigration, each authorized and […]
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Labour and Plaid’s Cooperation Agreement – One year on
Right now marks one 12 months because the Labour Authorities in Cardiff Bay entered right into a “Cooperation Settlement” with Plaid Cymru – however is that this one thing the Welsh persons are signed as much as? Within the earlier than the 2021 Senedd election, Plaid chief Adam Worth mentioned he “wouldn’t help a Labour […]
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Abortion Protected Democrats in Midterms, But Democrats Won’t Protect Abortion
These midterms have been imagined to be a purple tsunami. However due largely to the anger at overturning Roe v. Wade and assist for reproductive rights, there was hardly a purple ripple. The Republicans will possible take the Home by a tiny margin, and the Democrats will retain — or perhaps even increase — their […]
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