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News & Views | 7/20/21

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by Jake Johnson
"Delusional, toxic nonsense" is how one critic described Bezos' call for moving all polluting industry into space.

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by Jessica Corbett
Scores of groups are "calling on all financial institutions and the U.S. government to end their support for companies engaged in climate destruction and human rights abuses."



by Julia Conley
Biden's "limited achievements must be put in context of what both science and justice require to avoid the worst impacts of the climate and extinction crises," said the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund.



by Kenny Stancil
"If 10 prime ministers and three presidents can't be safe from mercenary spyware, what chance do the rest of us stand?" asked one critic. "Since the hacking industry is incapable of self-control, governments must step up."



by Jake Johnson
One critic said the new estimate of medical debt in collections shows the for-profit healthcare system is "working just the way the corporate price gougers want it to."



by Andrea Germanos
The measure includes a sunset of all authorizations of the use of military force including the 2001 AUMF.



by Jessica Corbett
"Normally the weather predicts what the fire will do," said an Oregon official. "In this case, the fire is predicting what the weather will do."



by Kenny Stancil
"Together," said the former teacher and union leader, "we'll... make a more just, dignified, and united Peru."



by Julia Conley
"If there was any economic justice in the world," said one critic, the U.S. would have imposed "a $100 billion re-entry tax on Jeff Bezos upon his return from outer space."



by Jake Johnson
"Every U.S. media outlet should lambast this comment and reference Assange, but they won't, because they suck," said one commentator.


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by Jorge Majfud
By all Western standards it can be said that Cuba is a dictatorship, but it is necessary to remember that the United States is the tyranny that created it, a brutal tyranny that has been going on for at least two hundred years.



by Simon Whalley
There is still time to avoid the catastrophe we have set in motion, but it is going to take drastic behavior change and huge grassroots pressure on governments to force them to act immediately.



by Neve Gordon
Netanyahu's objective is not really to impede Citizenship and Entry Law, but to create a wedge within the coalition.



by Eric Margolis
Afghanistan was a war of lies, sustained by the powerful U.S. and British media.



by Aviva Chomsky
What Washington could really do in Central America.


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