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A Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) volunteer uses a megaphone to urge residents to evacuate to shelters ahead of the expected landfall of Cyclone Amphan in Khulna on May 19, 2020.

by Basav Sen
The storm ravaged India and Bangladesh all the worse because of social and economic inequality. The same, or worse, could happen here.


A detail from a poster for the the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington. (Image: Poor People's Campaign)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Those in power today want nothing more than to stop this kind of movement," said Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.


Then-U.S. national security adviser John Bolton attends a media briefing during the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2018 in New York City.

by Richard Eskow
It’s irrational to invest someone like John Bolton with credibility, when Bolton lied and deceived us into war.


President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Bill Barr, speaks at the daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 23, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Make no mistake," said Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in reaction to the news, "Bill Barr will go down in history as having aided and abetted the most corrupt president this country has ever seen."


Residents cast votes at St. Paul Methodist Church November 5, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Jefferson County has a population of roughly 767,000 and will have just one polling location.


Demonstrators carry signs during an anti-war protest after President Donald Trump launched airstrikes in Syria, April 15, 2018 in New York City.

by Rev Dr Liz Theoharis, Stephen Miles
To create real security, we must slash the Pentagon budget and invest in meeting everyone’s basic human needs.


Fisherman push their boat during low tide on oily mud in the river at Ogoniland's village of K-Dere, near Bodo, which is part of the Niger Delta region, on February 20, 2019. -Decades of oil spills has left the Ogoniland region in southern Nigeria an environmental disaster zone. (Photo: should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jenna McGuire, staff writer
"After nine years of promises without proper action and decades of pollution, the people of Ogoniland are not only sick of dirty drinking water, oil-contaminated fish and toxic fumes. They are sick of waiting for justice, they are dying by the day."


World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"More than 150,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO yesterday—the most in a single day so far."


The history of policing in the United States is also deeply tied to the exploitation of Black workers. (Photo: Dave Bledsoe/flickr/cc)

by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Saru Jayaraman
In a nation that says it "cannot breathe," we much reach deep down for fundamental change.


The Frisco 5 and their supporters marching in San Francisco on their way toward the mayor's office during the 2016 hunger strike. (Photo: Mona Caron)

by Rupa Marya, Edwin Lindo
We are at a reckoning point in history, where we must decide how we will continue as a nation and how we will continue as inhabitants on this planet that supports all of our lives.

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