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Venezuela announces 6-month rent suspension, guarantees worker wages, bans lay-offs
The Venezuelan government announced a series of measures on Sunday in attempts to protect the population from the economic effects of the coronavirus crisis. Speaking on a live televised address, President Nicolás Maduro instructed that all commercial an ...[Read more]
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Up to 40 million Americans are set to be evicted from their homes after the holidays
According to research by the Aspen Institute, nearly 40 million Americans could face eviction over the next several months. The only thing holding back the flood right now is the CDC’s eviction moratorium order and a patchwork of state and local protect ...[Read more]
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‘It’s time to get violent’: Far-right extremists are promising more violence after the U.S. Capitol invasion
Robert Unterzuber, a friend of Russell, predicted that future attacks on the Capitol Building will be even more violent — telling The Dispatch, "We're coming to the Capitol, and we're going to tear her down if necessary and drag them people out of there ...[Read more]
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Trump Can Be Indicted Under Federal, State and DC Laws for His Role in Jan. 6
The legal evidence is damning: Donald Trump should be held criminally liable for “seditious conspiracy” and “inciting insurrection” for his role in stoking the events of January 6, when an angry mob of Trump loyalists, incited by the president him ...[Read more]
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Wax statue of Trump taken off display because it keeps getting punched
A museum has been forced to remove its statue of former President Donald Trump as a result of it being punched by visitors. According to Talking Points Memo, Louis Tussaud's Waxworks in San Antonio, Texas, has removed its Trump statue from public view and ...[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By the time you read this piece, it will already be out of date.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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90% of the World Breathes Polluted Air. Symbolic Emission Targets Aren’t Enough.
On Tuesday, the Biden administration signaled it plans to do just that. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, countries need to nearly halve emissions by 2030 to stay on track to keep warming below 1.5 Celsius, though many groups say ...[Read more]
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Commission Finds Anti-Black Police Violence Constitutes Crimes Against Humanity
On April 27, the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States issued its long-awaited report on the U.S.’s police-perpetrated racist violence. The Commissioners concluded t ...[Read more]
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Boris Johnson’s Lies Don’t Harm Him Because the UK’s Political System is More Corrupt Than He Is – CounterPunch.org
Britain’s corporate media are suddenly awash with stories wondering whether, or to what extent, the UK’s prime minister is dishonest. Predictably in the midst of this, the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg is still doing her determined best to act as media b ...[Read more]
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Emmanuel Macron’s Government Has Banned Palestine Solidarity Demonstrations
The French interior minister has issued a blanket ban on protests in solidarity with Palestine. For months, Emmanuel Macron’s government has joined the far right in denouncing “Islamo-leftism” — a war on anti-racist movements that is now undermini ...[Read more]
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Noam Chomsky: The Elites Are Fighting a Vicious Class War All the Time
Noam Chomsky talks to Jacobin about why working-class politics can secure universal health care, climate justice, and an end to nuclear weapons — if we’re willing to fight for them. ...[Read more]
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