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How Cuba Beat the Pandemic: From Developing New Vaccines to Sending Doctors Overseas to Help Others
Since last year, approximately 440 Cubans have died from COVID-19, giving Cuba one of the lowest death rates per capita in the world. Cuba is also developing five COVID-19 vaccines, including two which have entered stage 3 trials. Cuba has heavily investe ...[Read more]
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Pentagon and Tax Cheats Already Cost Taxpayers Far More Than Biden’s Job Plan
Over the past 20 years, the U.S. has spent $6.4 trillion on wars that have served only to further destabilize the Middle East, cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and enrich military contractors. If that money had been spent on infrastructure and clean ...[Read more]
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Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General Turned Fierce Critic of U.S. Militarism, Dies at Age 93
Former U.S. attorney general and longtime human rights lawyer Ramsey Clark has died at the age of 93, and we look back on his life. Clark was credited as being a key architect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. He served as ...[Read more]
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We Need to Give the Workers a Fair Shot: Jane McAlevey on What Went Wrong in Amazon Union Vote
Labor organizer and scholar Jane McAlevey says there were many warning signs that the historic Amazon union drive in Bessemer, Alabama, would fail. Workers at the Amazon warehouse voted overwhelmingly against forming a union after a months-long vote by ma ...[Read more]
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‘The Time Is Now to Go Forward’: Sanders Says Dems Can’t Waste Time Catering to Obstructionist GOP
Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said Saturday that amid the immediate emergencies of climate change, Covid-19, mass unemployment, and homelessness, congressional Democrats cannot afford to dampen their infrastructure ambition ...[Read more]
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The United States as a mass-killing machine
By the time you read this piece, it will already be out of date. The reason's simple enough. No matter what mayhem I describe, with so much all-American weaponry in this world of ours, there's no way to keep up. Often, despite the headlines that go with m ...[Read more]
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Over 25 Years, World’s Wealthiest 5% Behind Over One-Third of Global Emissions Growth: Study
"We have got to cut over-consumption and the best place to start is over-consumption among the polluting elites who contribute by far more than their share of carbon emissions." ...[Read more]
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The White Tiger Is a Window Into India’s Class Society
Movies about class and inequality are back in the mainstream. Taking inspiration from writers like Balzac as well as the father of Indian neorealism, Satyajit Ray, Ramin Bahrani’s film The White Tiger is a powerful interrogation of the injustices of cla ...[Read more]
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Wyoming Republicans set aside funds to sue other states for their green energy policies: report
Some Republicans in red states not only want to make sure that fossil fuels remain dominant in their own backyards €” they also want to discourage the use of green energy in blue states and swing states. ...[Read more]
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Canceling Student Debt Will Help Health Care Workers and Advance Racial Justice
Health care workers have more student loan debt than workers in any other industry, holding approximately $9,700 more in debt per person than those who work in higher education, who are the second-highest debt holders on the list. Private health care work ...[Read more]
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A Courageous Decision€: Rep. Ro Khanna Praises Biden’s Plan to End the Forever War in Afghanistan
Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna says President Joe Biden's plan to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan is a courageous decision. Im very glad that we have a president who has finally recognized that this is not a militarily winnable war, says Khanna. ...[Read more]
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