It’s time to get serious about protecting the planet and people’s pockets
As global temperatures have risen, I have been forced to watch Iceland’s largest glacier, Vatnajökull shrink year after year. For Millenia, the Arctic’s ancient glaciers have kept polar regions and ocean temperatures cool. Glaciers have helped to moderate our global climate by reflecting around 80 percent of the sunlight back into space. Today, almost all […]
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Advocates Urge Civilian Protections as Biden Sends Troops Back to Somalia
Human Rights WatchFriday’s protest urged the U.S. to prioritize protecting Somali civilians. President Joe Biden had signed off on the redeploying of hundreds of Special Forces troops from war-torn African country. In recent decades, American drones and other airstrikes killed at least dozens of noncombatants. John Kirby, Pentagon Press Secretary announced earlier this week that […]
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Whistleblower Warns Development Threatens Louisiana’s Sacred Black History Sites
This story was first published by Propublica, A non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses in power. Sign up for DispatchesSubscribe to, a newsletter that highlights wrongdoing in the country, every week to receive our stories in you inbox Erin Edwards, a professional architect historian, presented what she believed would be the nearly-final draft for a report […]
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Child Hunger Has Skyrocketed Since Manchin, GOP Killed Expanded Child Tax Credit
A new analysis has been released Friday confirms The U.S. has a large number of households that have children and report not having enough food. surged In the months since corporate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia joined Senate Republicans in refusing the extended Child Tax Credit benefit beyond mid-2018, Data from the Household […]
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Crispin Blunt claims appeal will ‘restore’ Imran Ahmad Khan’s ‘good name’
The Conservative MP who condemned the conviction of his colleague for sexual assault, and then issued an apology, has sparked controversy after once again claiming the verdict was “a serious miscarriage of justice”. Crispin Blunt MP told BBC1’s Politics South East: I know the decisions made during the trial [of Imran Ahmad Khan], which meant […]
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Omar Leads Call for Probe of Baby Formula Industry Amid National Shortage
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar On Friday, 25 other House Democrats will be joining the fray called for a federal probe of the nation’s concentrated baby formula industry amid a national shortage that has prompted emergency action from lawmakers and the White House. “We are writing to urge the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to work with […]
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Supply Chain Failures Prove Growing Need for Localized Economies
The mainstream media — television, print and digital — routinely cycle through the litany of crises gripping the world. One week they’ll tell us about the latest climate disaster. The war in Ukraine may be the next focus. A few days later, COVID-19’s latest variant might be trending. The topic of the day is then […]
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Graduate Student Workers Across the Country Are Helping Each Other Unionize
As a first-year master’s student and associate instructor in the School of Music at Indiana University (IU), Chelsea Brinda was forced to sell her blood plasma to survive. Her stipend of just $9,000 was far below Bloomington’s living wage. She eventually stopped selling her biofluids. She got her first creditcard and took out student loans. […]
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Oklahoma Custody Battle Could Set Dangerous Precedent for LGBTQ Parental Rights
This story was originally published in The 19th. For the first two years of her son’s life, Kris Williams read him the book “Love You Forever” before bedtime most nights. Every Saturday, she took him to the park. In the middle of the pandemic, Williams cut out the cardboard babies on the front of diaper […]
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Are Republicans a Bunch of Racists?
Are Republicans just a bunch racists? That’s certainly the narrative that the corporate media is pushing as hard as it can. This time, the context is the horrific killing spree in Buffalo (New York) perpetrated by a mentally deranged racism whose online manifesto contains a host of racist and antisemitic conspiracyacies. Are such things part […]
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