Click here to view this message in a browser window.

 

News & Views | 5/26/21

Feature...


Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) listens as President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on April 28, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Republicans aren't interested in compromise. They never were. Let's meet the scale of this crisis and pass the bold package our nation needs."

News...


Climate activists on Wednesday celebrated a Dutch court's ruling that Royal Dutch Shell must cut its carbon emissions 45% by 2030.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This is a turning point in history," said an attorney who noted that the ruling "may also have major consequences for other big polluters."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
"It's not an impossible task to make sure workers in the fossil fuel industry are provided with the skills, training, and opportunities to find other jobs," the Center for Economic and Policy Research found.



A pro-Palestinian demonstrator marches on O'Connell Street in Dublin during a May 22, 2021 protest. (Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The scale, pace, and strategic nature of Israel's actions on settlement expansion and the intent behind it have brought us to a point where we need to be honest about what is actually happening on the ground."



Amazon workers and community allies demonstrate during a protest in Manhattan

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"In announcing plans to buy MGM, Jeff Bezos placed a big softball on a tee for the Biden administration to knock over the fence."



A sign painted on debris from Hurricane Ike reads "Allstate Help Me" on September 19, 2008 in Seabrook, Texas. (Photo: Mark Wilson via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Despite the sector's expertise in identifying, forecasting, and managing risk, it continues to support companies responsible for climate change, including those engaged in coal, tar sands, and Arctic oil and gas."



Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi speaks at the United Nations

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"While the world has suffered as one, we have not suffered equally."



Protesters block the street in front of the Supreme Court

by Julia Conley, staff writer
The lawsuit from the ACLU's Arkansas chapter is the first major challenge of one of the many anti-transgender rights measures being pushed by Republican legislatures across the country.



Palestinians protest U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the occupied West Bank

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Remember that these are weapons of war and destruction that will be used to kill children, bomb hospitals, homes, and schools—lives literally hang in the balance."



Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine—seen here in 2019—announced on May 25, 2021 that his office is suing online retail giant Amazon for alleged monopolistic price-fixing. (Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"You have to break up Amazon," said one consumer advocate, who argued there's a "fundamental conflict of interest when you own the infrastructure and you also compete on that infrastructure."


More News

Views...


Thousands of Jamaat-e-Islami supporters hold protest rally against Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people, in Karachi, Pakistan on 23 May, 2021. (Photo: Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Ramzy Baroud
This is the first time that Israel is forced to accept that the rules of the game have changed, likely forever.



A person files an application for unemployment benefits on April 16, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

by David Cooper
The latest state jobs data show the economy has not fully recovered.



Many U.S. citizens have begun to wonder whether they really want their tax dollars funding Israel’s occupation of Palestine and its military assault on Gaza. (Photo: Screen shot / Twitter)

by Rebecca Ruth Gould
As global solidarity with Palestinians continues to grow, how can the lessons of this movement benefit other colonized and oppressed peoples?



Bottles of a trial Covid-19 vaccine on a table in a lab in Brussels on June 18, 2020. (Photo: Vincent Kalut/Photonews via Getty Images)

by Jill Richardson
Many essential workers still aren't vaccinated. It’s not because they don't want to be—it's because they can’t get time off work.



Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel visits WSJ at Large with Gerry Baker at Fox Business Network studios on August 1, 2019 in New York City. (Photo: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
"Rewarding Rahm Emanuel's cover up of Laquan McDonald's murder with an ambassadorship is not an act that reflects a value of or respect for Black lives."



Industry and its political enablers went on a rampage to exempt as much water as possible from federal protection. (Photo: wonderisland/Shutterstock)

by Derrick Z. Jackson
Michael Regan, President Biden's EPA administrator, must prioritize science and water quality over the demands of big industry.


More Views

Newswire...





Earthjustice

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

More Newswire...

Share this newsletter with a friend
Donate

Common Dreams Facebook | Common Dreams Twitter

Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community.
An independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997.
Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good.

Common Dreams, PO Box 443, Portland, ME 04112, USA | 207.775.0488
Common Dreams is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your contribution is tax deductible. EIN: 20-3368194 | Unsubscribe