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Your Week in Review

These GOP Grifters Will Be the Death of This Republic

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by Thom Hartmann
Perhaps the 2022 election will bring Democrats a large enough
progressive majority that they can work around their own grifters—or
maybe it'll signal the death knell of the republic.

No, The Teachers Are Not Okay

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by Steven Singer
The system is built on the backs of teachers. And we are ready to
collapse.

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

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by Ralph Nader
Today's school children are engulfed by corporate apps, software, and
textbooks biased toward the corporate definitions of an economy and
myths about "free markets."

'How Many More Deaths Must It Take?' Barbados Leader Rips Rich Nations in Fierce UN Speech

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by Jake Johnson
"How many more variants of Covid-19 must arrive, how many more, before a
worldwide plan for vaccinations will be implemented?"

Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal

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by Julie Hollar
Corporate journalists overwhelmingly leaned on government and military
sources, while offering no clear antiwar voices and vanishingly few
perspectives from civil society leaders in either Afghanistan or the
United States.

To Avert Debt Ceiling Calamity, Democrats Urged to Finally Kill the Filibuster

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by Jake Johnson
"The solution is to blow up the filibuster at least for debt limit
votes, just as Mitch blew it up to pack the Supreme Court for his big
donors."

Biden Decries 'Outrageous' Treatment of Haitians at Border—But Keeps Deporting Them

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by Jessica Corbett
"I'm glad to see President Biden speak out about the mistreatment of
Haitian asylum-seekers. But his administration's use of Title 42 to deny
them the right to make an asylum claim is a much bigger issue."

Global Peace Activists Warn of Dangers of US-Led Anti-China Pacts

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by Brett Wilkins
"No to military alliances and preparation for catastrophic wars,"
anti-war campaigners from over a dozen nations write in a letter
decrying the new AUKUS agreement. "Yes to peace, disarmament, justice,
and the climate."

'You Tell Me What We Should Cut': Sanders Not Budging on $3.5 Trillion

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by Jake Johnson
"Poll after poll tells me, and tells you, that what we are trying to do
is enormously popular."

'I Had a Duty of Care': Doctor Praised for Violating Texas' New Abortion Ban

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by Jessica Corbett
"I hope the law gets overturned," Dr. Alan Braid said, "and if this is
what does it, that would be great."

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