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News & Views | 8/27/21

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Demonstrators line up mock body bags during a protest

by Jake Johnson
By striking down the CDC's eviction moratorium, said one critic, the Supreme Court "sided with rich corporate landlords that are itching to kick out vulnerable families."

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Taryn Bailey, a 16-year-old in Arizona, is among those featured in a new ad campaign calling on lawmakers to improve home and community-based services. (Photo: BeAHero)

by Kenny Stancil
Healthcare advocates are fighting for Congress to include $400 billion for home and community-based services in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.


School staff distribute free school lunches.

by Julia Conley
"No matter their family income, it’s unacceptable for any student to go hungry at school," said the Wisconsin Democratic Party.


Cori Bush

by Jake Johnson
"Just wondering—are some of the Democrats who attempted to sink the Biden agenda this week part of the same group blocking legislation to extend the eviction moratorium?"

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Students wear face coverings at a school in Florida.

by Julia Conley
Florida court's ruling comes as CDC director warns school outbreaks are happening where health guidance is not being followed.


Neonics impact on bees and butterflies

by Andrea Germanos
"The EPA doesn't need any more proof," said one expert after agency analyses detailed threat to endangered species.


Afghans flee fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces

by Kenny Stancil
"Every last dollar of the $6 billion must be used to help save Afghan lives, not to boost Pentagon contractor profits," said Win Without War.


A patient receives dental care at a free rural clinic.

by Julia Conley
Insurance companies' opposition to comprehensive coverage, said one lawmaker, is "all the more reason, in my opinion, that we need to do it."


Palestinian man sits in rubble in Gaza

by Andrea Germanos
The demand comes as Biden is set to have his first meeting with the far-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.


People gather to check on missing relatives a day after a deadly attack outside Kabul's international airport, at a hospital run by Italian NGO Emergency, in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 27, 2021. (Photo: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil
"We must resist the urge to let our pain dictate our policy," said Rep. Sara Jacobs. "If we don't, we will have learned nothing from the last 20 years."

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walmart

by Tamara Pearson
More and more US transnationals have opened up in Mexico over the past few decades, taking advantage of unfair trade agreements, super-exploitative labor conditions, and cheap utilities.


bush_cheney

by Thom Hartmann
Bush & Cheney have gotten away with lying us into two wars & wildly enriching their friends; meanwhile, more people are dead & the media won't even ask the right questions. Will we ever learn?


afghan_refugees

by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
The United States has a responsibility to provide a safe haven for refugees, from Afghanistan, Latin America, or elsewhere, and to cease interventions that fuel these crises and displace so many.


afghanistan women

by Sonali Kolhatkar
The Taliban's return ought to be sparking retrospection among American elites about the folly of exploiting Afghan women’s oppression for war.


wall

by Robert Reich
We do have socialism in this country—but it's not Democrats' policies. The real socialism is corporate welfare.


afghanistan_conflict

by Juan Cole
Rather than arguing for the U.S. going back into Afghanistan, the ISIL-K—Taliban Civil War that just broke out again is an incontrovertible argument for the US departure from that country.

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