by Jessica Corbett "Please end the era of fossil fuel expansion decisively, so we can begin the era of clean energy and climate solutions with all the hope and commitment it requires."
by Jake Johnson "Taxing multinationals at 15% would still leave them facing a lower rate than the average American pays in state and federal income tax."
by Brett Wilkins "We are traumatizing these kids," one official allegedly admitted. "This is terrible. This is horrible. People in Washington know. But this is an emergency situation and mistakes are going to happen."
by Kenny Stancil "This was the hottest June on record. Until next year, and the year after that, and the year after that—unless we address the climate crisis."
by Jake Johnson "Imagine being a U.S. senator in 2021 while millions of Americans suffer from record-breaking heat, drought, fire, and flood, and being confident enough to say climate change is 'bullshit.'"
by Kenny Stancil "If we do not now stop corporations like Chevron from weaponizing the law, the rights of all earth defenders will be in jeopardy," said the human rights attorney.
by Common Dreams staff The assassination came amid widespread street protests against the Moïse government, which faced accusations of corruption and rampant abuses of power.
by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Juliana Bartels It is imperative that the G20 finance ministers' meeting in Venice this week act to provide the COVID-19 vaccines needed to achieve worldwide comprehensive adult immunization by early 2022. Given current production, this should not be a problem, so long as a global plan is quickly implemented.
by Jim Hightower The frenzied herd of Republican governors are stampeding behind the scaremongering scheme of Abbott to use the personal suffering of Latin American migrants and asylum seekers as a political pawn.
by Mark Weisbrot For the first time in more than a century, a journalist could be tried and imprisoned—the charges carry a maximum of 175 years in prison—for publishing facts that the U.S. government did not want published.
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