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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The next administration must consider all possibilities, including unconventional but legal removals, to get the federal government working for the public interest as quickly as possible."

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An activist holds a sign that says "Count Every Vote" outside of the Detroit Department of Elections Central Counting Board of Voting absentee ballot counting center at TCF Center on Wednesday, November 4, 2020.

by Common Dreams staff
A Democratic county clerk warned that a vote against certifying the results of the state's November election would "signal that democracy is dying in Michigan."



Then- Vice President Joe Biden laughs as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry introduces him to speak during the 2016 International Women of Courage Forum at the State Department, March 29, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This is an encouraging commitment, but it is not enough."



Charles Miller, 90, prepares the daily pills his wife will need for the week on January 4, 2020 in Sarasota, Florida. His wife has had a recent stroke and a heart attack, and needs approximately ten different medicines daily which need to be carefully monitored. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The costs of doing nothing about high drug prices are too high."



PacifiCorp's coal fired power plant burns coal outside of Castle Dale, Utah on November 14, 2019. (Photo: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The World Meteorological Organization called for "more sustained and ambitious climate action to reduce emissions to net zero through a compete transformation of our industrial, energy, and transport systems."



U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the Prime Ministry Office in West Jerusalem on November 19, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is extremely alarming that the warmongers most reliant on Trump's blank checks are secretly meeting in the middle of the night as the clock nearly runs out on the Trump administration."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"In the U.S., there is no accountability for supporting the worst foreign policy disaster in modern history. Only rewards."



Climate activists and many economists say governments should be funding a Green New Deal, not fossil fuel bailouts. (Photo: Andrew Hart/Flickr cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"By artificially delaying the industry's inevitable decline at taxpayers' expense, the government has made it that much harder to make the necessary transition to clean energy sources."



Sidney Powell speaks during a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. on November 19, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's OK to laugh at this hilarious clown car and yet appreciate that what's going here is deadly serious. These tactics will go nowhere but still infect our democracy with doubt."



Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (top L), U.S. President Donald Trump (top R), South Korean President Moon Jae-in (down L), and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (down C) are seen on a screen before the start of a virtual G20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia and held over video conference amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in Brussels, on November 21, 2020. (Photo: Yves Herman/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
World leaders expressed cautious optimism about widespread coronavirus vaccine access as the virtual G20 summit wrapped up with a final statement from the world's 20 largest economies, expressing that the countries would make sure vaccines are distributed equitably across the globe.


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A Georgia State Trooper separates Biden supporters from Trump supporters at a "Stop the Steal" rally against the results of the U.S. Presidential election outside the Georgia State Capitol on November 18, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

by Chris Hedges
American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.



Former Defense Undersecretary for Policy Michele Flournoy prepares to testify during the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on "NATO at 70: An Indispensable Alliance" on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

by Norman Solomon
The pernicious and lucrative aspects of military madness are personified in the favorite to be Biden’s Defense Secretary.



American democracy will continue to be endangered by House and Senate Republicans who lack the moral courage to do what’s right. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
Most elected Republicans in Washington are failing the test by refusing to stand up to Trump. Their cowardice is one of the worst betrayals of public trust in the history of our republic.



A woman waves a Saharan flag with text Free Sahara during a demonstration to demand the end of Morocco's occupation in Western Sahara, in support of the Polisario Front in Granada on November 21, 2020. Cities throughout Spain have demonstrated in favor to self-determination in Western Sahara and to denounce the violation of the 1991 ceasefire agreements last week. This has triggered the resumption of the armed conflict between the Moroccan army and the Polisario Front. (Photo by Fermin Rodriguez/NurPhoto vi

by Michael Beer, Mohamed Brahim
We must act swiftly to prevent war and further conflict, end the occupation, and allow Sahrawis to make their decision on union with Morocco or independence.



Reporting indicating that Biden may be considering former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell (above) to replace Haspel is deeply troubling. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Daniel J. Jones, Scott Roehm
Biden and Harris must eschew anyone complicit in torture or who frustrated oversight.



Count on this: the militarization of American society and the "thank-you-for-your-service" fetishization of American soldiers will continue to thrive, exhibit A being the way Biden now closes almost any speech with "May God protect our troops." (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)

by Danny Sjursen
Foreign policy, sacred cows, and the U.S. Military.


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