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U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani listens to Detroit poll worker Jessi Jacobs during an appearance before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on December 2, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan. (Photo: Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Every attorney, including the organized bar and disciplinary authorities, should disavow lawyers who trample the truth and undermine democracy through their false statements."

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Civilian casualties have soared in Afghanistan during the tenure of President Donald Trump. (Photo: Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"In 2019 airstrikes killed 700 civilians—more civilians than in any other year since the beginning of the war in 2001 and 2002."



People wear face masks near Madison Square Park on September 29, 2020 in New York City.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Joe Biden needs to undo these cruel regulations—and clean house at SSA—on day one."



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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The failure to strengthen particulate-matter protections is a dereliction of duty that puts lives at risk."



An empty podium where Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) would have stood had he shown up for a debate with Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff on December 6, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It shows an astonishing arrogance and sense of entitlement for Georgia's senior U.S. senator to believe he shouldn't have to debate at a moment like this in our history."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Trans and non-binary people belong everywhere," said the ACLU.



Protesters rally at Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 17, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This would be the worst time to disincentivize businesses and employers from doing everything they can to protect the health and safety of working people and consumers."



Iran is suffering from the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the Middle East, with over one million infections and over 50,000 deaths as of December 7, 2020. (Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The Trump administration is allegedly using sanctions to thwart Iran's efforts to obtain vaccine stock through the WHO's COVAX program.



California Attorney General Xavier Becerra speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on November 12, 2019.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We'll get to see how much he meant it."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Though the international community recognizes water access as an essential human right, hedge fund managers and public water agencies are poised to begin profiting off water scarcity, which experts say will worsen in the coming years in the U.S. as well as other countries. 


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CODEPINK protests killer drones at DC home of Jeh Johnson. (Photo: CODEPINK)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Flournoy has repeatedly demonstrated throughout her career, both in her official Pentagon positions in the Clinton and Obama administrations and in her published writings and statements, that she actually believes in the normalization of war.



While the Biden-Sanders Climate Task Force shifted the Biden plan dramatically toward the Green New Deal, notable differences remain. (Photo: michael_swan/flickr/cc)

by Tina Gerhardt
The Green New Deal makes social and racial justice inseparable from climate policy, but it’s unclear whether Biden will do the same.



Former Beatle John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono address an antiwar rally in Manhattan's Bryant Park, 22nd April 1972. Over 50,000 people attended the rally staged to protest the escalation of the Vietnam War. (Photo: Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images)

by Joshua Meyrowitz
When icons become "media friends," their impact can be unexpected and powerful.



Demonstrators rally in New York City to protest anti-BDS legislation, June 9, 2016. (Photo: Sipa USA via AP)

by Stephen Zunes
Pompeo’s decision to brand the BDS movement as anti-Semitic has bipartisan support. Will Biden let it stand?



People seldom notice that Trump’s approach to military policy has always been two-faced. (Photo: John Minchillo-Pool/Getty Images)

by Michael T. Klare
From the forever wars to the cataclysmic wars.



Will the militant Trump administration attempt to board these vessels and steal their oil, to provoke Iran again and interfere with the Biden team’s plan to restore the 2015 nuclear deal? (Photo: Nachoman-au/Wikipedia)

by Juan Cole
The odious Elliott Abrams, warmonger-in-chief and old-time supporter of nun-killing right wing death squads in Central America, is now in charge of Iran and Venezuela for Trump and is warning propagandistically against Iran sending missiles to Venezuela (for which there is no evidence at all).


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