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October 23, 2023
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WATCH: Palestinian Journalist Rips Western Media Narrative on Israel's Gaza Slaughter
"Palestinians don't just die, they get killed. They are actually being subjected to ethnic cleansing, to genocide for the last 75 years."
Brett Wilkins
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Sanders Demands Probe of Push to Give Company Patent for Public-Funded Cancer Treatment
The Senate HELP Committee chair noted that "the apparent abuse of the system... is so egregious that it has been characterized as a 'how-to-become-a-billionaire program run by the NIH.'"
Jessica Corbett
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Israel Ramps Up Assault on West Bank With Airstrike on Mosque, Deadly Raids
"Settlers all over the West Bank see this war as a golden opportunity to torment Palestinians from small communities who are literally defenseless," said one human rights campaigner.
Julia Conley
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Study Warns Even With Emissions Cuts, West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt 'Unavoidable'
"It looks like we've lost control of melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet," said one author. "The bright side is that by recognizing this situation in advance, the world will have more time to adapt to the sea-level rise that's coming."
Jessica Corbett
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UAW Expands Strike Against Stellantis, Targeting 'Biggest Moneymaker'
"Currently, Stellantis has the worst proposal on the table," said the United Auto Workers.
Jake Johnson
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"A Disturbing Symbol of Big Oil's Intentions": Chevron Buys Up Rival Producer
"These Big Oil Frankensteins are a direct threat to our climate, democracy, and economy," said one climate campaigner.
Jake Johnson
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Progressives, Green Groups Applaud EPA's Proposed Ban on Carcinogenic Solvent
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Scores of UN Workers and Journalists Killed in Israel's Indiscriminate Strikes on Gaza
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Church of England Joins Call for Cease-Fire in Gaza, Breaking With UK Government
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'A Mass Atrocity': Israeli Airstrikes Have Killed At Least 400 in Gaza Over Past 24 Hours
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UN Agency Warns Humanitarian Operations in Gaza on Verge of Total Collapse
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With Shutdown Averted, Is Social Security Safe? Nope!
More tax giveaways to the rich simply mean less revenue, higher deficits, and more justification for taking a meat cleaver to programs that serve and protect ordinary Americans.
James Roosevelt Jr.,Henry Scott Wallace,June Hopkins,Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall
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Hamas Is a Terrorist Organization; So Is the Israeli Government
U.S. media outlets dodge being evenhanded with the "terrorist" label-applying it to organized Palestinian killers of Israelis and not to organized Israeli killers of Palestinians.
Norman Solomon
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Don't Offer Up Our National Forests for Industrial Carbon Waste Dumping
The Forest Service now seems to think that it can throw away decades of policy preventing "forever" permits that privatize forests for corporate use.
Jim Furnish
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