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News & Views | 6/8/21

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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

by Jake Johnson, staff writer

"The personal federal tax bill for the top 25 in 2018: $1.9 billion. The bill for the wage earners: $143 billion."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer

"The climate impact of an advertising agency is the work it does in the world, not the lightbulbs it has in its offices."



by Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Single-payer systems at the state-level, said one advocate of the new bill, would "demonstrate just how much better they are than our fragmented for-profit healthcare system."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer

"The provisions in the For the People Act are widely popular, among Democrats and Republicans. It's just not popular among billionaire donors."



by Andrea Germanos, staff writer

"This is a fundamental issue of fairness," said the Democratic Senate Majority Leader.



by Brett Wilkins, staff writer

"Manchin's positions are wrong, constitutionally inconsistent, historically inaccurate, morally indefensible, economically insane, and politically unacceptable," said the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.



by Julia Conley, staff writer

"Our priority is clear," said a top WHO official. "it's crucial that we swiftly get vaccines into the arms of Africans at high risk of falling seriously ill and dying of Covid-19."



by Andrea Germanos, staff writer

The allegations of fraud from a former dictator's daughter came as voting results showed her leftist rival with a narrow lead.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer

"The E.U. 'plan' is to urge current vaccine makers to produce more, an approach that already has failed spectacularly and now imperils the world."



by Kenny Stancil, staff writer

"Of course, if they actually did talk about the reasons Texas declared independence from Mexico, it would be a very radical course," said one critic.


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Gaza Child

by Danaka Katovich

In this day and age where videos of U.S. allies committing war crimes are readily available on Twitter or Instagram, no one can claim that they don't know what U.S.-made weapons are used for around the world.



Mask

by Judy Rohrer

Instead of rushing to emerge, we would do well now to slow down, take stock of the luggage we are carrying and the carcasses we are still dragging.



Trump supporters in Pennsylvania

by Les Leopold

The hunt for reliable data and the entanglement of race-class demographics in the era of Trump.



Pedro Castillo

by Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores

On the foreign policy front, Castillo's victory will represent a huge blow to U.S. interests in the region and an important step towards reactivating Latin American integration.



Biden Rescue Plan

by Joseph Stiglitz

Far from signaling the return of significant inflation, temporary price increases are exactly what one would expect in a recovery following an economic shutdown.



republicans_fascism

by C.J. Polychroniou

Republicans have consistently adopted a reactionary orientation on race, ethnicity, and gender issues, and are fervid opponents of majority rule.


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Amnesty International - USA

Patriotic Millionaires

Institute for Policy Studies

Free Speech for People

Indigenous Environmental Network

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