Saturday, December 2, 2023
■ The Week in Review
"Voluntary pledges cannot be a substitute for a formal negotiated outcome at COP28 for countries to address the root cause of the climate crisis: fossil fuels."
By Jon Queally • Dec 2, 2023
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"This is the first AI-facilitated genocide in history," said one observer.
By Brett Wilkins • Dec 1, 2023
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"Mehdi Hasan's program has felt like an oasis on air and more needed than ever," said one Palestinian American advocate of the journalist's Gaza coverage.
By Julia Conley • Nov 30, 2023
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One project in particular, the CP2 export terminal, "would be the most harmful facility built in the United States," one frontline activist said as campaigners delivered petition signatures.
By Olivia Rosane • Nov 30, 2023
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"Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a strong message that the rich and powerful cannot evade scrutiny or accountability," said one advocate.
By Julia Conley • Nov 30, 2023
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"Without robust wealth and inheritance taxes," said one analyst, "the children and grandchildren of today's billionaires will dominate our future politics, economy, culture, and philanthropy."
By Jake Johnson • Nov 30, 2023
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"At today's hearing, Republicans made the true purpose of their 'fiscal commission' crystal clear: demolish Social Security and Medicare behind closed doors," said one campaigner.
By Jake Johnson • Nov 29, 2023
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"It's like the tobacco companies that knew the addictive and lethal nature of cigarettes yet continued to get millions of teenagers hooked on them," said one African critic.
By Jessica Corbett • Nov 28, 2023
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■ Opinion
COP28 skepticism is understandable, but we owe it to the planet and future generations to remain hopeful, ambitious, and bold.
By Patty Fong • Dec 2, 2023
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GOP lawmakers want the commission to commit the dirty work of slashing Social Security and Medicare to death without leaving their fingerprints on the murder weapon.
By Nancy J. Altman • Nov 30, 2023
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The professional love affairs between Kissinger and many U.S. journalists endured from the time he got a grip on power in 1969—and continue even in his death.
By Norman Solomon • Nov 30, 2023
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House Speaker Mike Johnson knows how important Social Security is to hard-working Americans, so he has devised an accountability-free way to gut it.
By Jan Schakowsky • Nov 29, 2023
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National news media often broadcast misinformation when discussing the debt of the United States government, erroneously targeting Social Security as the main culprit whether intentionally or from genuine ignorance.
By Frederic H. Decker • Nov 29, 2023
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Tomorrow’s hearing will be behind closed doors, and, if mainstream media’s historic reluctance to highlight the GOP’s hatred of Social Security is any indication, it’s unlikely it’ll even be covered by the press in any significant way.
By Thom Hartmann • Nov 28, 2023
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