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News & Views | 8/24/21

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Nancy

by Jessica Corbett
Progressives say their position has not changed: bold reconciliation package comes first and then watered-down bipartisan infrastructure plan.

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People arr

by Julia Conley
While GOP lawmakers ready an appeal, voting rights advocates move to ensure formerly incarcerated people know about the ruling.


The construction of then-U.S. President Donald Trump's wall along the United States-Mexico border imperils endangered species like the Sonoran pronghorn and desert bighorn sheep, which routinely move between the two countries, including through a section of fence viewed on March 27, 2017 in Sonoyta, a town in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. (Photo: Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil
"This is a win for wildlife and communities along the border, where the government has behaved as if the laws don't apply," said one environmental lawyer.


teen gets pfizer covid-19 vaccine

by Jessica Corbett
"Help us win this fight, follow science, and end this pandemic by requiring vaccination."

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President Joe Biden speaks to reporters

by Jake Johnson
"Despite the pressure from the hawks, Biden actually appears to be ending this war."



by Andrea Germanos
"The crushing closure of the Gaza Strip needs to end, along with the impunity that fuels ongoing serious abuses."


A veteran protests wars

by Jake Johnson
"Veterans know the cost of war, so it should come as no surprise that they strongly back President Biden's decision to end the war in Afghanistan."


LA refinery 2020

by Jessica Corbett
"Instead of using their power to cut off finance for fossil fuels, they are making themselves busy tinkering around the edges of the climate crisis."


Damage from flash flooding in Tennessee.

by Julia Conley
"There is no place in the United States where you shouldn't be resetting your expectations about Mother Nature disrupting your life," said one expert.


SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 1, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: Britta Pedersen-Pool via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil
"The unconscionable growth in billionaire wealth through the misery of the pandemic is the clearest case I can imagine for the progressive tax reform working its way through Congress."

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afghanistanpeace

by Zoltán Grossman
The United States was involved in Afghanistan long before 9/11, fomenting Islamist revolt and paving the way for its own defeat.


A woman prays as she boards a bus at a processing center for refugees evacuated from Afghanistan at the Dulles Expo Center on August 24, 2021 in Chantilly, Virginia.on August 24, 2021 in Chantilly, Virginia. According to the U.S. State Department, between Sunday morning and Monday morning, 10,400 people were evacuated from Kabul on military flights and approximately 5,900 more people were evacuated on 61 coalition aircraft.(Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)

by Julie Hollar
Media outlets are proving once again that Afghan women’s rights are only of interest to them when they can be used to prop up imperialism and the military industrial complex.


divest

by Andy Rowell
"The climate crisis is too dire and too urgent for such critical institutions to be dawdling when they could be leading the finance sector in a new, climate-safe direction."


Gavin_Newsom

by Ernie Powell
Governor Newsom has paid attention to the needs of California's older citizens more than any Governor in my lifetime.


burning_planet

by Michael T. Klare
In 2049 China will be a climate disaster zone, not a military superpower.


abolish-ice

by Uchechukwu Onwa
The violence of the detention system falls hardest on people already facing persecution and bias because of their sexuality or gender identity.

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