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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"That a British court has ruled that the U.S. prison system is too barbaric to guarantee the safety of Assange tells its own story. But this is about something much bigger than Assange: it's about journalism, the free press, and... the ability to expose atrocities committed by the world's last...

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Public health workers, doctors, and nurses protest over lack of sick pay and personal protective equipment outside a hospital in the Bronx on April 17, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"For-profit corporations ruined our healthcare system. They're not going to be the ones to fix it."



Protesters rally at an annual Google shareholder meeting at the company's Mountain View, California headquarters on May 14, 2014. (Photo: John Green/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The tech titan "has a responsibility to its thousands of workers and billions of users to make the world a better place," two of the union's leaders wrote. "We can help build that world."



Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff, talks with reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday, November 18, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Congressman Don Beyer of Virginia argued audio of Trump's call with Georgia's secretary of state "makes Nixon's 'smoking gun' tape sound tame."



The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, one of the world's largest battleships, will remain in the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon announced on Sunday, January 3, 2021. (Photo: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"It may be the case that his most erratic, most reckless lashing out is yet to come."



Chicago Teachers Union leadership list their demands and leave a box of coal outside the entrance of City Hall following a car caravan where teachers and supporters demanded a safe and equitable return to in-person learning during the Covid-19 pandemic on December 12, 2020. Select public school teachers are expected to return to classrooms on January 4, 2021. (Photo: Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"We're afraid for our lives. We don't want to lose our jobs. The fear of losing our jobs is real," said one teacher. "But the fear of this virus is greater than that fear."



A participant seen holding a sign at a protest in Manhattan on November 19, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We must hold him fully accountable, even after he leaves office. There must be justice."



"The decision was based on the U.S. prison system being so awful and repressive that Assange would be at significant suicide risk," noted Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Let this be the end of it," said whistleblower Edward Snowden.



Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at a press conference in Mexico City on Dec. 8, 2020. (

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Assange is a journalist and deserves a chance," the Mexican president said Monday.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
" It is a sad and tragic day for our country that 140 members of the House of Representatives, 13 senators and a defeated president are attempting to undermine American democracy and our Constitution."


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Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, right, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., attend the Senate Judiciary Committee markup on judicial nominations and the Online Content Policy Modernization Act, in Dirksen Building on Thursday, December 10, 2020. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
The open sedition of so many Republican members is a crime and a national disgrace. They're attempting a clumsy coup d'etat.



Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock speaks at an Augusta canvass launch block party at Robert Howard Community Center on January 04, 2021 in Hephzibah, Georgia. On the final day before the January 5th runoff election, Warnock and Ossoff, who are challenging Republican incumbent senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, respectively, made their last pitches to voters at a block party and canvass launch. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

by Diane Archer, Toni Smith
It's game on! Georgia voters hold the key to control of the Senate—which means they hold the key to our public health and our health care.



An activist wears a t-shirt calling for the end of executions during a fast and vigil to abolish the death penalty on June 29, 2016 in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

by Shea M. Rhodes
Mental health experts have explained that there is a direct line from the relentless abuses Montgomery suffered to the tragic crime she later committed.



Wikileaks founder Julian Assange during a press conference at Park Plaza Hotel on October 23, 2010 in London, England related to the "Iraq War Logs." The series released at the time included leaks of American military documents, nearly 400,000 in total, included details about how the torture and the abuse of detainees by Iraqi police, was ignored by U.S. forces. Just days earlier, it was reported that the U.S. government had filed charges under the Espionage Act for Assange's work as a journalist. (Photo: D

by Jonathan Cook
The labeling of dissent as mental illness cannot be seen as a victory.



Numerous nations — including New Zealand, France, Costa Rica, Belize and, as of November, Denmark — as well as state and local governments have announced moratoriums on new oil exploration and production. (Photo: CGP Grey/Flickr/cc)

by Jacques Leslie
The treaty addresses a nearly universal failing of climate change regulations, which usually attempt to curb energy demand instead of attacking the oil industry directly by limiting fossil fuel supply.



U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (Photo: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv/flickr/cc)

by James North
The U.S. mainstream media’s biggest failure is not that it distorts coverage, but that most of it doesn’t cover the danger of a Mideast conflict at all.


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