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News & Views | 10/22/21

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema at a Senate hearing.

by Julia Conley
"It seems truly unhinged to look at a country full of working people struggling to get by... and decide that it's more important to preserve low tax rates for billionaires and corporations than it is to make significant investments in our families."

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salmon

by Brett Wilkins
Denying a Biden administration request to temporarily retain the rule, the judge reestablished "the careful balance of state and federal power to protect clean water that Congress intended when it wrote the Clean Water Act."


President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference

by Julia Conley
"It's a simple choice between a free America or one chained by the past," said one advocate. "Our democracy hangs in the balance."



by Kenny Stancil
"This assessment provides the strongest scientific argument to date for the urgency to act, and for collective action to protect and restore our oceans from source to sea."

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Declare a climate emergency

by Jon Queally
"Finding consensus between those who see or don't see our climate reality," said one critic, "is not democracy in action: it's homicidal."


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by Kenny Stancil
"As if it wasn't enough that wealthy polluters have bankrolled Sen. Manchin during his fight against common-sense climate solutions—now companies that claim to value protecting the environment have opened their pocketbooks as well."


pro-Roe signs

by Jessica Corbett
The nation's high court set a date to hear a pair of legal challenges to the "horrific" restrictions.


Cori Bush oustide White House

by Jessica Corbett
"Your inaction," Rep. Cori Bush warned the president, "is undermining our efforts to deliver good jobs, environmental justice, and a renewable energy future."



by Brett Wilkins
"So much for Trump's claim that Twitter has an anti-conservative bias."



by Kenny Stancil
"Labeling effective NGOs 'terrorists' is a textbook way to evade accountability for human rights violations—and an affront to everyone who cares about peace," said Rep. Ilhan Omar.

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canada_military

by Yves Engler
The Canadian military has fought in nine wars with only one of them morally justified.


Manchin and Trump together

by Thom Hartmann
While the "safety net" prevents personal, family or community disasters, "rights of citizenship" are not "welfare" or so-called "entitlements," but provide the foundation for society itself.


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by Becky Dillon
These credits represent food in the mouths of the state's most vulnerable children.


assange

by Robert C. Koehler
By penetrating the realities of war and pulling it out of its carefully orchestrated public context, by publicizing its raw horrors, he became a danger to the country's political status quo.


assange

by Sam Carliner
The press still has the power to challenge and prevent U.S. wars. However, this power hangs in the balance in the form of Julian Assange's fate.


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by Linda McQuaig
Calling for a "reckoning" and "retaliation" against a nuclear-armed superpower is foolish and provocative—especially when we threw the first stone.

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Food & Water Watch

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