Tuesday, September 3, 2024

■ Today's Top News 


US DOE Approves New Fortress Energy LNG Export Despite Climate Risks

"As the disastrous impacts of increased fossil fuel development become more and more obvious here and around the globe," said one campaigner, "the notion of expanded LNG exports should be dismissed out of hand."

By Julia Conley



House GOP Budgets Paired With Project 2025 Would Create 'Harsher' Nation for Working Class

"Behind these eye-popping budget numbers are millions of real people who will see health coverage, food assistance, and other forms of support taken away," said the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

By Jake Johnson



Dems Want to Know If Trump DOJ Covered Up Alleged $10 Million Egyptian Bribe

"Surely you would agree that the American people deserve to know whether a former president—and a current candidate for president—took an illegal campaign contribution from a brutal foreign dictator."

By Jessica Corbett



US Drug Prices Still Far Higher Than Other Nations' Even After Medicare Talks

The U.S. "has always accepted that we are the country that overpays relative to the rest of the world," said one health policy expert.

By Julia Conley



Once Free, Covid-19 Vaccines Now Cost Up to $200 for Uninsured in US

"What's at stake is we are reverting back to a system where a person's financial ability to be able to pay will determine their ability to be healthy."

By Edward Carver



UN Expert Says Impunity for Israel Must End as 'Genocidal Violence' Spreads to West Bank

"Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement, and territorial expansion," said United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

By Jake Johnson


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■ Opinion


We Should Listen to Rev Barber on White Poverty and Multracial Organizing

The latest book by the Poor People's Campaign co-chair shows how racial division keeps both Black and white communities poor—and lays out a real vision to defeat it.

By Lewis M. Steel


There Is a Way Out of This Mess, Joe and Kamala. Please Take It.

A long-overdue cut-off of U.S. arms to Israel and recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination would provide exactly the shock to the system that is needed.

By James Zogby


Trump Promises a Dystopia in Which Even Reality Becomes a Fiction

Our world has become mega-dystopian in so many ways it’s almost hard to fathom.

By Tom Engelhardt