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May 31, 2022
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Greenpeace activists
block a Russian oil tanker
'No Time for Half-Measures': Greenpeace Rebukes EU's Partial Ban on Russian Oil
The new embargo exempts pipeline imports at the behest of Hungary's far-right leader Viktor Orbán.
by Jake Johnson



Canada's Big Banks Are Secretly Supporting Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
"Once again, we see that Canadian banks are leading the world in financing climate-destructive, Indigenous rights-violating projects," said one campaigner.
by Brett Wilkins



Assault weapons ban
Critics Call Out House Democrats for Excluding Assault Weapons Ban From Gun Proposal
"In the 10-year period after the assault weapons ban lapsed, mass shooting deaths jumped 239%. Two-thirds of Americans support a ban. Why is it not included?"
by Kenny Stancil
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Houston-NRA
Canada Is Right to Be Worried About the Right-Wing Unraveling of the United States
Bought-off Republican stooges in Congress and state legislatures—along with their allies on the Supreme Court—are openly trying to bring our country down, to destroy a 240-year-old democracy.
by Thom Hartmann



Mourners in Uvalde, Texas
Pledging Allegiance to the Gun-Loving Insanity of the United States
It is time to end the allegiance of too many in our country to guns and violence and to begin to walk a path towards common sense solutions.
by Ann Wright



A view of the Pentagon from above
How About Some Gun Control at the Pentagon?
The weapons of war that maim and kill—the big ones and the small—let's do something to curb them all.
by Norman Solomon
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