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News & Views | 4/14/21

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization, attends a session of the WTO General Council in Geneva on March 1, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Global supply should not be dependent on the purely commercial prerogatives and exclusive rights of pharmaceutical companies holding the technology. There is simply too much at stake."

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A man wearing a mask walks past a "vote to exist" sign displayed on the windows of Kenneth Cole on September 22, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"While it's great that these executives and their companies oppose the Jim Crow-style laws that GOP lawmakers are pushing across the country, this kind of talk is cheap without action."



Climate action protester dressed as a polar bears holds sign reading "Keep it in the ground"

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Our public lands and waters belong to all of us—not to fossil fuel executives who want to exploit our health and our kids' future to get rich," said Sen. Jeff Merkley.



Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wa.) holds a news conference to announce legislation that would apply a 2% tax on the wealth of individuals worth more than $50 million and an additional 1% surtax on net worth above $1 billion. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We don't just need a wealth tax, we also need to give the IRS the tools it needs to make sure the ultra-rich finally pay their fair share."



Pumpjacks on Lost Hills Oil Field in California.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Together our groups represent millions of people across the country all urging the Biden administration to put the health and safety of our communities and our climate before oil and gas profits."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"As the Biden administration considers its next steps, it should build on these foundations, end fossil fuel leasing on public lands and waters, and embrace a clean energy future."



Capitol Police officers are overwhelmed by a mob of invading supporters of then-President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021. (Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"Congress itself is the target," warned one internal threat assessment three days before the deadly attack by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.



During the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will not enforce a requirement that patients visit a healthcare office to obtain mifepristone, which is used to terminate an early pregnancy. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/92599314@N00/46193282711">Robin Marty</a>/Flickr/cc)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The in-person dispensing restriction—which the Trump administration fought to keep in place during the pandemic—prioritized ideology over science and endangered the health and well-being of Americans."



A video surveillance camera hangs from the side of a building on May 14, 2019 in San Francisco, California.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Letting this tool of authoritarian control spread throughout the private sector has serious implications for worker organizing rights and heightens the risk of catastrophic biometric data breaches."



F-35B combat aircraft from the United States Marine Corp and the RAF prepare to refuel from an RAF Voyager aircraft over the North Sea on October 8, 2020 in flight, above Scotland.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We have to stop choosing political expediency over human rights," said Kate Kizer of Win Without War.


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United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. (Photo: Paul Marotta/Getty Images)

by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Tradition and aspirational values cannot matter more than the principles they are meant to serve.



House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) pauses while speaking during a press conference alongside House Republicans on Capitol Hill on October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC.  (Photo: Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
Flailing into oblivion, the frat boy politics of the Republican Party simply may end in its unseemly collapse – or national disaster.



Demostrators with the youth-led Sunrise Movement gather in San Francisco to call on House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to support the formation of a select committee to advance a Green New Deal. (Photo: Peg Hunter/flickr/cc)

by William Janeway
Whether it is called "Build Back Better" or a "Green Industrial Policy" or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of "jobs against climate."



Tyson Food and Hillshire Brands food products are seen on May 29, 2014 in Miami, Florida. Tyson Foods made a $ 6.8 billion all-cash proposal to aquire Hillshire Brands whose brands include among others Jimmy Dean sausages and Ball Park hot dogs. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Jim Hightower
Busting the monopoly power of abusive and arrogant food giants is broadly popular—even in Congress.



Halliday has been a powerful voice for peace and for human rights around the world.(Photo: indybay.org)

by Nicolas J.S. Davies
"I think the United States and its populous, who vote these governments in, need to understand that the children and the people of Iraq are just like the children of the United States."



Demonstrators protest the shooting death of Daunte Wright outside the Brooklyn Center police station on April 13, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Wright, a Black man whose car was stopped in town on Sunday reportedly for an expired registration, was shot and killed by an officer who police say mistook her service revolver for a Taser. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Will Bunch
A cop stopped Daunte Wright for expired tags. Then, Wright died. This is intolerable.


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