How Are You Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel

Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military “aid?” (DavidSwanson.org) —Did you know that the U.S. government has done something odd with your tax dollars? The ones you get so furious and indignant about when they’re used to [...]

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Trump Orders Meat Processing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths

“We only wish that this administration cared as much about the lives of working people as it does about meat, pork, and poultry products.” President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday ordering meat and poultry processing plants to keep their doors open during the coronavirus pandemic. The executive order invokes the Defense Production Act [...]

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Poll Shows Tens of Millions of Americans Would Avoid Covid-19 Treatment Over Cost Fears

“A country that puts people in this situation is not a country upholding its responsibility to its citizens.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) A Gallup poll out Tuesday indicates that tens of millions of U.S. adults would avoid seeking potentially life-saving medical treatment for Covid-19 symptoms due to fears about their ability to afford the associated [...]

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Trump Suggests Withholding Funding From States with Sanctuary Cities

President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of withholding coronavirus aid from sanctuary cities. After several rounds of emergency relief from Congress, states and local governments are still waiting on Capitol Hill to support them. Businesses, hospitals, and taxpayers have already received attention. The CARES Act was never expected to be the final support [...]

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Transgender Americans Losing Medical Protections During Pandemic

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is close to finalizing language that would remove discrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans. Health experts are sounding the alarm about a Trump administration regulatory rollback that will remove LGBTQ discrimination protections, allow hospitals to discriminate against patients, and hurt some of the population’s most vulnerable members [...]

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Life under covid-19 – Lockdown Lockdown whose boredom is the worst of them all?

Hello world! As I sit at my desk gazing at what is fast-becoming an overgrown garden – my daughter thought earlier this April that she would beat her boredom by mowing the grass and instead mowed the electric wire of my now useless lawnmower, I’m wondering at which point we shall all lose our collective [...]

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On Frontlines Against Covid-19, Healthcare ‘Heroes’ Across US at Risk From Underlying Illness, Poverty, and No Insurance

“Health care workers don’t need lip service. They need raises, health benefits, and paid sick leave.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) A new study on the crisis of underlying illness, poverty, and lack of insurance within the medical profession prompted the advocacy group Physicians for a National Health Program on Wednesday to demand that the healthcare [...]

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The Toxic Tentacles of Erik Prince

“Given the power enjoyed by his sister Betsy DeVos and the close relationships he enjoys with senior figures in the United States government, it appears that a new era is dawning for Erik Prince.” The life of Erik Prince has been a complicated globe-trotting journey complete with extensive mercenary activities, spying on American citizens, brokering [...]

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UN Projects ‘Staggering’ 20% Rise in Gender-Based Violence Worldwide During Pandemic Lockdowns

The new data—which also address child marriages, female genital mutilation, and unintended pregnancies—”shows the catastrophic impact that COVID-19 could soon have on women and girls globally.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Lockdowns around the world triggered by the coronavirus pandemic could contribute to millions more cases of gender-based violence, child marriages, female genital mutilation, and [...]

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Why Did the World Health Organization Wait Until March to Declare a Global Pandemic?

The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic. When U.S. President Donald Trump cut off his government’s funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), one of his grievances was that the WHO—under Chinese tutelage—failed to declare the global [...]

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Wildfires Can Reduce Biodiversity—Can Biodiversity Be Used to Reduce Wildfires?

A biodiversity experiment in Australia showed animal species can help reduce flammable leaf litter by 24 percent. Over the past several months, wildfires have burned a huge portion of Australia’s natural landscape. We’re talking almost 18 million acres of bushland, forest and national parks. This was not your typical annual wildfire. As Dieter Hochuli, an [...]

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