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News & Views | 10/21/21

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by Jon Queally
"It's way easier for them to try to get away with the things that they're lobbying for and against if people at home aren't watching," said the New York Democrat

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by Andrea Germanos
The renewed push comes nearly 50 years after Congress passed the amendment.



by Julia Conley
The accounts of 160 asylum officers portray "DHS as an agency that appears to have normalized shocking abuses at the U.S. border."



by Brett Wilkins
"This is a landmark ruling. For 20 years, successive U.S. administrations have asserted their right to imprison people indefinitely, without charge or trial."


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by Andrea Germanos
"This is a landmark day."



by Andrea Germanos
"They are using every opportunity to protect their corporate interests and continue with business as usual while the planet burns."



by Julia Conley
"It is painfully clear that the developing world cannot rely on the largesse and charity of rich nations and pharmaceutical companies, and hundreds of thousands of people are dying from Covid-19 as a result."



by Jon Queally
The vote "reveals just how far the Republican Party has fallen" since Trump took control as GOP's de facto leader, said one pro-democracy advocate.



by Jessica Corbett
"When it's time to finally put workers first, big businesses are spending millions to maintain their advantage and preserve the status quo," said Kyle Herrig of Accountable.US.



by Kenny Stancil
Although "all of President Biden's Build Back Better agenda can be paid for by fairer taxes on the wealthy and corporations," noted Americans for Tax Fairness, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's refusal to support tax hikes on the rich could kill the bill.


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by Subhankar Banerjee
Human rights defenders have urged for a rights-based approach to conservation that would protect and honor the stewardship of biodiversity routinely practiced by the Indigenous and other "ecosystem peoples" in the global South and around the world.



by Mitch Jones
At this stage, Democrats have offered Joe Manchin a basket full of polluter-friendly subsidies to prop up essentially non-existent carbon capture power technology, a watered-down clean power plan barely better than the status quo, or a meaningless carbon tax that mostly exists as a totem for an industry that pretends to care about the planetary damage it has caused.



by Chuck Collins
The billionaire Nike founder has seen his fortunes almost double during the pandemic, but it's where he is hiding his massive fortune that exposes just how corrupt this system has become.



by Jeff Cohen
Under oath, the disgraced former mayor of Chicago portrayed the 13-month suppression of the video showing the police murder of Laquan McDonald as needed to safeguard the investigation's "integrity." All it safeguarded was Emanuel's reelection.



by Rena Bumbray-Graves
In my home state of Virginia and across this nation, we work day and night to help seniors and people with disabilities. Failing to repair our broken care system hurts all of us.



by Dean Baker
The frivolous use of large amounts of resources by the very rich is a problem for the economy and society.


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