Funds for COVID Testing, Treatment, Vaccines Are Evaporating. Congress Must Act.
Three weeks ago, congressional Democrats dumped$15.6 billion in funding from the $1.5 Trillion federal spending bill for COVID pandemic relief. My knees shook when it happened. It’s one thing to talk about the current crisis in an election year, but it’s quite another to cut funding to maintain our success. If this were a ground […]
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Russia’s War Against Ukraine Has Accelerated the Doomsday Clock
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, there has been a lot of speculation about Russia’s military strategy and President Vladimir Putin’s geostrategic aims. Indeed, it is still unclear what Putin wants, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s repeated offers of a face-to-face meeting have been rejected by Moscow, although that could soon change. The […]
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With All Eyes on Ukraine, the Fight Against Climate Change Is Falling Behind
What does a six-year old in the United States have in common with an 85-yearold Russian? They’re both feeling the strain of a warming planet. “Is the earth going to get so hot that we can’t survive?” my young son asked me last summer as we plodded through the woods behind our Maryland home. I […]
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Biden Won’t Release Afghanistan’s Central Bank Assets, Even in Face of Collapse
An international aid group warned Wednesday about the imminent collapse of Afghanistan as the Biden administration & European governments. refuse to release the war-torn nation’s central bank reserves, depriving the economy of critical funds as millions face poverty and starvation. In a statement before an international donor conference International Rescue Committee (IRC), Afghanistan. said the […]
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Boris Johnson questioned over Russia and Partygate in liasion committee
Johnson: ‘We need to intensify sanctions against Russia’ Boris Johnson has called on Western allies to intensify sanctions against Russia ‘until every single Russian troop is out of Ukraine’. The chair of the foreign affairs committee Tom Tugendhat asked the prime minster about when the UK should lift its sanctions against Russia. Johnson said: “I […]
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Despite Net-Zero Promises, Big Banks Are Dumping Trillions Into Fossil Fuels
Public vows to put themselves and their clients on a path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, the world’s 60 largest private banks have provided a total of $4.6 trillion in financing for the fossil fuel industry since the Paris Agreement entered into force in 2016. That’s according to the latest edition of Banking on Climate […]
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US Plans to Arrest Migrants at Southern Border as It Welcomes Ukrainian Refugees
As the U.S. says it will welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion, immigration officials say they’re preparing for a surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border as it ends the Trump-era pandemic restriction Title 42 in response to humanitarian outcry. We talk with Guerline Jozef, of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, about […]
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Johnson interrogated over tax rises in PMQs
Keir Starmer accused Boris Johnson, of prioritizing tax cuts to support the Conservative re-election campaign rather than helping families through the cost of living crisis. During a noisy Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour’s leader charged Johnson with cynically timing an income tax cut in 2024, when the next general election is due to take place. “That’s […]
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The Ghost of Enron Haunts Joe Manchin’s Coal Fortune
If there was every any confusion as to where West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s loyalties lie, the last budget season put paid to that with interest. His seemingly bottomless vigor in dismantling President Biden’s signature infrastructure/climate bills showed the world that he cares not for his party, his beleaguered president, his own people back home […]
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Iron Workers Union Files Nearly 150 Labor Charges Against One Trucking Company
In Morton, Illinois, at a welding shop for trucking company G&D Integrated, welders worked in fear that one small mistake could end up killing someone. A shop floor arrangement meant that approximately 2,500-pound truck decks could fall on someone if a chain broke. “If guys weren’t paying attention and didn’t let the guy next to […]
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