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News & Views | 4/13/21

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U.S. troops in Afghanistan prepare to enter and search a family's home. (Photo: Scott Nelson/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"With today's decision, President Biden recognizes what the people of the United States and Afghanistan have long known: we simply cannot bomb our way to peace."

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President Joe Biden speaks at Pfizer's largest manufacturing facility on February 19, 2021, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Vaccine donations alone won't end the pandemic."



Yemeni children from families affected by the war and blockade receive a lunch meal from a charitable center on April 12, 2021 in Sana'a, Yemen. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Rep. Ro Khanna says members of Congress are "assessing" whether a War Powers Resolution is needed to fully end U.S. involvement.



Climate activists with Stop the Money Pipeline held a rally in midtown Manhattan on March 3, 2021, at BlackRocks HQ and then JP Morgan Chase HQ, two of the worlds biggest funders of climate destruction, to urge the two companies to end their support for the dangerous proposed Line 3 pipeline project, and stop funding fossil fuels and forest destruction. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jenna McGuire, staff writer
"It's time for our leaders in Washington to tackle the climate crisis now, not later. This means halting fracking and fossil fuel projects, period."



A passenger enjoys her choice of Krug or Dom Perignon champagne while relaxing in the first class cabin on a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 flight. (Photo: s.yume/Flickr/cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We have got to cut over-consumption and the best place to start is over-consumption among the polluting elites who contribute by far more than their share of carbon emissions."



Ecuadorean leftist presidential candidate Andrés Arauz speaks to the press to concede his electoral defeat in the country's runoffs in Quito on April 11, 2021. (Photo: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Now is a time for reflection," said Progressive International's David Adler. "The triumph of lawfare should send a chill through the global community."



A law enforcement officer watches flames launch into the air as fire continues to spread at the Bear Fire in Oroville, California on September 9, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This idea is not a journalistic fancy," writes a senior editor. "We are on solid scientific ground."



Storage tanks for contaminated water stand at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Feb. 3, 2020 in Okuma, Japan. (Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The government has taken the wholly unjustified decision to deliberately contaminate the Pacific Ocean with radioactive wastes."



Secretary-General of United Nations António Gutierrez speaks to press on the Syrian conflict at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on March 10, 2021.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Advancing an equitable global response and recovery from the pandemic is putting multilateralism to the test. So far, it is a test we have failed."



A box of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine doses are pictured at Grubb's Pharmacy on Capitol Hill in this file photo. On Tuesday, the CDC and FDA issued an official recommendation to pause use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine out of what agencies called "an abundance of caution," citing a "rare and severe type of blood clot" in some individuals after receiving the single-dose shot. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Out of 6.8 million doses administered thus far, the agencies said they are "reviewing data involving 6 reported U.S. cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot in individuals after receiving the vaccine."


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"Covid-19 has (re)exposed so much about the ways in which this society is appallingly unequal, cruel, racist and indifferent. Millions without health insurance. Millions compelled to go to work in dangerous workplaces. Policies and policy makers who have responded to this pandemic (and the deep inequalities that are so pervasive in our society) with cynicism, indifference, opportunism and cruelty," writes Koechline. But, he adds, this society knows how to do better. (Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

by Tim Koechlin
What I saw and felt as I was getting my first jab.



Indigenous knowledge systems and Western science tell us that the lack of attention to the interface between humans and the natural world is putting us at immense risk. (Photo: Getty/Stock Photo/apos tophy)

by Gauri Sreenivasan, Mandy Gull
Canadian women leaders send an open letter to the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Finance.



On Friday, hundreds of activists in San Francisco painted the street outside of Wells Fargo’s headquarters, urging the bank to both stop funding Line 3, and remove Noski from the head of the bank. (Photo: Arthur Koch)

by Alec Connon
Majority Action, has released a list of 30 corporate directors who are obstacles to climate progress—directors who should be voted out of positions of power to make way for people who are more climate literate.



Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) holds a press conference following the Senate GOP policy luncheon in the Rayburn Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
It must not be allowed, like the Confederacy was, to live on with its own "lost cause" BS mythology.



Demonstrator Randall Grey protests a taxation of the wealthy during a rally at Occupy Wall Street San Diego on Thursday, October 13, 2011 in San Diego, California. (Photo: Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Linda McQuaig
If you don't have $20 million or sitting around you can just relax.



Activist Nola Darling talks on the megaphone in front of the Brooklyn Center police station at a protest over the police killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, U.S., on April 13, 2021. (Photo: Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
Police reforms will never work unless accompanied by and embedded in rebuilding and empowering communities.


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