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News & Views | 3/19/20
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While Warning Donors But Reassuring Public, GOP Intel Chair Unloaded Personal Stocks Before Covid-19 Smashed Markets
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"If you paid up to $10,000 for membership and have a history of donating
to Richard Burr, you would have received significant insight about
COVID-19 by Feb 27."
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Amid Climate Crisis and Raging Pandemic, Trump Blasted for 'Morally Bankrupt' Multibillion-Dollar Big Oil Bailout
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Climate advocacy groups responded with swift condemnation Thursday after
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he will recommend that President
Donald Trump ask Congress for as much as $20 billion to purchase oil in
what Barron's reported "would essentially equate to a bailout of the
U.S. oil industry, because several U.S. producers would likely go out of
business if demand and prices stay low."
While GOP's Means-Tested Stimulus Aims to 'Screw Poor People,' Progressives Call For Universal Cash Payments
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"$2,000 checks every month to every household during the emergency,
means test it by raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires," said
David Sirota of the Sanders campaign.
Washington Post Photographer Spots Crossed-Out 'Coronavirus' in Favor of 'Chinese Virus' in Trump Notes
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Aggressively, purposefully, maniacally, loathsomely racist."
'We Cannot Test. We Cannot Test': As Coronavirus Cases in US Spike 40% in One Day, Medical Workers Plea for Key Supplies
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As it was reported Thursday that the number of confirmed coronavirus
cases in the United States rose by over 40% in just 24 hours, frontline
medical workers across the country expressed alarm about "severe
shortages" of testing and protection equipment.
New 'Hurricane-Sized Increase' in Unemployment Claims, Warn Economists, Is Just the Beginning
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Progressives and economists are demanding major government action to
stimulate economy.
Here Are the 51 Republican Senators Who Just Voted Against Expanding Paid Sick Leave to All Workers
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If one of these Republicans (or two!) is your senator, call their
office right now and tell them you saw their vote and you won't forget."
GOP Senators Erupt in Laughter After Suggestion to Call Corporate Bailouts "Freedom Payments" in Closed-Door Meeting With Mnuchin
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"I wonder how many 'freedom payments' this senator has gotten for his
campaign from the corporations they are about to bail out?"
Economists Demand Trump Immediately Lift Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela Sanctions That Are 'Feeding the Coronavirus Epidemic'
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This policy is unconscionable and flagrantly against international law.
It is imperative that the U.S. lift these immoral and illegal
sanctions."
'Now Make It National': Vermont and Minnesota Classify Grocery Store Staff as Emergency Personnel
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Demands for nationwide protections for grocery store workers grew
Thursday after Minnesota and Vermont officially designated such
employees as emergency workers as the coronavirus pandemic spreads
across the country.
'Bolsonaro Out!' From Balconies and Windows, Millions Demand Ouster of Brazilian President Over Handling of Coronavirus
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Brazil can't take it anymore," declares a petition demanding
Bolsonaro's impeachment.
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Frontline Nurses Condemn Trump's Racism and Cruelty Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
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by Chuck Idelson
"As nurses, we know that kindness and humanitarian compassion are at the
core of healing, they are also at the heart of public health and
safety."
Trump Stimulus Plan: Still Getting Everything Wrong
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by Eileen Appelbaum, Dean Baker
The president appears not to know what he's doing.
Shakespeare Got Through It. We Will, Too.
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by Louis Fantasia
Creative people will not only survive, they will create.
A Lesson Coronavirus Is About to Teach the World
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by Jonathan Cook
Coronavirus will bring into focus the depraved inefficiency of this
system—the model of profit-driven health care, of market forces that
look out for the short-term interests of business, not the long-term
interests of us all.
Increase in Unemployment Insurance Claims Is a Preview of the Coming Recession
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by Heidi Shierholz
Large fiscal stimulus is needed.
A Pandemic in Retrospect—Looking Back on the Coronavirus From 2050
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by Hazel Henderson, Fritjof Capra
What will we say at that point, after we have finally learned what we so
desperately needed to know?
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Newswire...
Trump’s Proposed $20 Billion Fossil Fuel Bailout Via the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a Gross Abdication of Duty
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In Coronavirus Crisis, 575 Groups Urge Halt to Electricity, Water Shutoffs
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DOE Pushes Oil Purchases
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Trump's Misguided Pandemic Talking Points
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