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News & Views | 6/14/21

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Sen. Ed Markey speaks outside the Supreme Court

by Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Mitch McConnell is already foreshadowing that he'll steal a 3rd Supreme Court seat if he gets the chance. He's done it before, and he'll do it again."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer

Winner will serve the rest of her five-year sentence under the supervision of a halfway house.



by Andrea Germanos, staff writer

"We can stop this insane corporate welfare and use it to pay for a renewable energy future."



by Julia Conley, staff writer

"Once again Joe Manchin is casting a heavy shadow."



by Brett Wilkins, staff writer

The justices' punting of Chevron v. Oakland means cities' historic litigation will proceed in lower courts.



by Kenny Stancil, staff writer

If the Biden administration allows the moratorium to expire "before emergency rental assistance money reaches renters, there'll be a historic wave of evictions in summer and fall," warned one advocate.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer

"With the stroke of a pen, Biden could grant tens of millions of Americans a semblance of financial freedom."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer

"A single factory could produce this number in a year if you waived patents."



by Jon Queally, staff writer

"The argument that we need to make here," the New York Democrat said of bipartisanship's dead end, "is that it's worth going it alone if we can do more for working people in this country."



by Jon Queally, staff writer

"Never in the history of the G7 has there been a bigger gap between their actions and the needs of the world. In the face of these challenges the G7 have chosen to cook the books on vaccines and continue to cook the planet."


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Naftali Bennett

by Ariel Gold

Naftali Bennett is at best a continuation of Netanyahu's policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu's.



Ready_to_work

by Jim Sandoe

This plan ensures that we can meet our urgent demands during the climate crisis, while empowering our workers and businesses to lead a clean energy revolution.



Peace activists wearing masks of Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and newly elected US President Joe Biden pose with mock nuclear missiles in front of Berlin's landmark the Brandenburg Gate on January 29, 2021 in an action to call for more progress in nuclear disarmament. (Photo: John MacDougall / AFP)

by Robert Dodge

It is time to once and for all end the Cold War "us and them" thinking.



careworkers

by Rebekah Entralgo

"Seeing as we are the ones who are supposed to be taking care of people, why is it that we are the least cared about?"



Putin

by Norman Solomon

Most Democrats in Congress are now locked into a modern Cold War mentality that endangers human survival.



Bin Laden's Ghost

by Walden Bello

Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation.


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Environment America

Oil Change International

Indigenous Environmental Network

Center for Biological Diversity

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

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