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New Analysis Shows US Police 3 Times More Likely to Use Violence Against Leftist Protesters Than Far-Right
Black Lives Matter, Indigenous, anti-war, and other progressive activists reacted with a complete lack of surprise to data reported by The Guardian on Thursday that shows U.S. police are three times more likely to use violence against left-wing and social ...[Read more]
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Oakland, San Francisco residents unite against anti-Asian hate crimes
In the wake of a spike of violent attacks against Asian and Asian-American residents, many of them elderly, outraged citizens from all different backgrounds in U.S. cities Oakland and San Francisco have joined in solidarity over the past weekend. In San ...[Read more]
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Brazil’s COVID-19 Death Toll Passes 250,000
Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll has passed a quarter of a million — the second-highest toll in the world after the United States, and about 10% of all coronavirus deaths worldwide. Brazil has vaccinated just 3.6% of its population after a disastrou ...[Read more]
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Bolsonaro a ‘Threat to the Planet,’ Says Lula as Brazil’s Daily Covid Death Toll Hits All-Time High
"Unfortunately, our country is today considered a global threat, due to the uncontrolled circulation of the virus and the emergence of new mutations." ...[Read more]
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Presidential historian lays out the reasons why George Floyd’s death sealed Trump’s fate as a one-term president
A week after Floyd's death, on June 1, 2020, nonviolent protesters in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square were demanding justice for him when they were violently removed by police so that Trump and his allies could walk from the White House to St. John's ...[Read more]
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What If 401(k)s Could Fund the Green New Deal Instead of Wall Street?
On April 14, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing to discuss infrastructure ideas to help realize President Biden’s “build back better” economic vision. Among the ideas discussed at the hearing was a proposal by Cornell University L ...[Read more]
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End ‘Forever Wars,’ Biden Told as White House Releases Document on Trump’s Secret Lethal Force Rules
President Joe Biden faced a fresh call to fully end "forever wars" after his administration released former President Donald Trump's secret rules regarding the use of lethal strikes outside of designated war zones. The Biden administration released the pa ...[Read more]
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Report reveals how big corporations rigged rules to boost pandemic pay of CEOs as workers suffered
Dozens of the largest low-wage employers in the United States manipulated their own rules during the coronavirus pandemic to hand wealthy CEOs substantial raises while their vulnerable frontline workers struggled to get by with inadequate paychecks, meage ...[Read more]
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Groups That Aid Israel’s War Crimes Can’t Deny All Responsibility for Those Crimes
Here is something that can be said with great confidence. It is racist – antisemitic, if you prefer – to hold Jews, individually or collectively, accountable for Israel’s crimes. Jews are not responsible for Israel’s war crimes, even if the Israel ...[Read more]
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Revealed: ExxonMobil’s lobbying war on climate change legislation
The explosive footage was obtained by Unearthed, Greenpeace UK’s investigative platform, who posed as head-hunters to obtain the information from one of ExxonMobil’s most senior Washington lobbyists. The recordings appear to reveal the secretive behi ...[Read more]
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‘Which Side Are You On?’: Poor People’s Campaign Pressures US Senate on Democracy and Justice
Beginning with a "massive national call-in to every U.S. senator," the Poor People's Campaign on Monday launched a monthlong campaign to push Congress to eliminate the 60-vote filibuster, pass the For the People Act, restore the gutted Voting Rights Act, ...[Read more]
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