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A view of the Wall Street street sign with the New York Stock Exchange during the coronavirus pandemic on May 25, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The rollback, noted the Wall Street Journal , hands "Wall Street one of its biggest wins of the Trump administration."

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In response to the Thursday arrest of two local activists as "part of a coordinated attack on those who defend democracy and challenge the petrochemical industry," environmentalists in Louisiana have launched the Defend Democracy Alliance.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
At least 40 U.S. climate and environmental advocacy groups on Friday rallied behind two Louisiana Bucket Brigade activists who are facing felony "terrorizing" charges for leaving a box of plastic pellets collected from Texas waters near a Formosa Plastics facility on the doorstep of a fossil fuel lobbyist in December 2019.



"We should be protecting communities, our democracy, and the environment, not tearing these things apart as Trump hoped to do," said Gloria Smith, attorney with the Sierra Club. (Photo: Mani Albrecht/U.S. Border Patrol/Flickr)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"This ruling is a win for the rule of law, the environment, and border communities."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is the exact time when we should be worried about government officials, even members of Congress, taking money out of the hands of others in need."


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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Children will be pushed to the brink of starvation and many will die."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It would be a catastrophe to let these turn off and replace them with nothing."



A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test at United Memorial Medical Center testing site in Houston on June 25, 2020. (Photo: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Some U.S. cities and states have slowed or halted plans to ease restrictions enacted in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as the country continues to shatter records in terms of confirmed Covid-19 cases and public health experts warn of what the future could hold.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Political observers said Friday that several shipbuilding companies may have grounds to file formal complaints the Government Accountability Office after President Donald Trump suggested the Navy awarded a contract to a Wisconsin company because of its status as a key swing state.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We need to be guaranteeing healthcare for all, not gutting it from millions."



Caribou in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"At a time when oil prices are cratering, prioritizing expanding oil and gas drilling anywhere—let alone the Arctic—is ridiculous."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is time for us to truly focus on what we value as a society and to fundamentally transform our national priorities."


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Executive Chairman of Ford William Clay Ford Jr. (L) tour with President Donald Trump the Ford Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan on May 21, 2020. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

by Ralph Nader
What your stewardship of the Constitution requires is manifest.




by Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.
If you cannot hear the problem with the term "brown finance" yourself, please let me explain.



Drug Enforcement Administration police are seen as demonstrators marched to Freedom Plaza from Capitol Hill to honor George Floyd and victims of racial injustice on Saturday, June 6, 2020. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Maritza Perez
A critical look at the DEA is long overdue. The agency has existed for more than forty-five years but little attention has been given to the role it has played in fueling racial disparities, mass criminalization, the surveillance state, and other drug war harms.



Photo: Promotional image of the Italian frigate the U.S. Navy is adapting for construction at Marinette. (Photo: Fincantieri)

by Kathy Kelly
The world that our global empire is swiftly creating, through our devastating oil wars in the Middle East and our arriving cold wars with Russia and China, is a world without winners.




by Harvey J. Kaye
 



Demand community control, not only of the police, but of education, housing, health care and all the other services that civilized societies require. (Photo by Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Glen Ford
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces.


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