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Your Week in Review



by Ralph Nader
"The Democrats are not matching Trump’s own or his party's propaganda."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Sen. Bernie Sanders will deliver a speech Saturday afternoon about the economic reforms that must be put in place to improve the lives of working Americans and how Joe Biden plans to raise wages, create millions of new jobs, and narrow the United States' massive wealth gap.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The White House continues to disregard the needs of the American people as the coronavirus crisis devastates lives and livelihoods."

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British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca will supply the European Union with up to 400 doses of a still-in-development Covid-19 vaccine, officials announced in August. (Photo: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images)

by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"Governments need to resist pharma pressure and be transparent."


"While we benefit from a highly sophisticated, technically advanced pharmaceutical industry," writes Brown, "that same industry systematically—and often catastrophically—fails to meet the needs of our society, our health, and our economy." (Photo: Floris Van Cauwelaert/flickr/cc)

by Dana Brown
Now is the time to support and expand the public production of pharmaceuticals and ensure that medicines are available to all who need them.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"It would be a moral disgrace if we left to future generations a planet and that was unhealthy, unsafe, and uninhabitable."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The video that came out of Kenosha is absolutely horrific. I don't understand how people can watch it and not be here."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump's disastrous plan to defund Social Security would eliminate retirement and disability benefits by 2023," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "That may make sense to the billionaires at Trump's country club, but it makes zero sense to me."


Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris confer on stage outside the Chase Center after Biden delivered his acceptance speech on the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center on August 20, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Morris Pearl
Democrats are simply not going to win votes if they see a crisis of this scale and respond with laughably small, do-nothing policy ideas.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The two policies are popular with the American public, but the Democratic Party refused to embrace them in its 2020 platform.

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