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February 27, 2023

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Sanders Warns of 'Primary Care Cliff' as Federal Funds for Local Clinics Set to Expire <[link removed]>

"In the midst of a broken and dysfunctional healthcare system, I will be doing everything I can to expand community health centers so that every American has access to the primary care that they need and deserve." <[link removed]>

Kenny Stancil <[link removed]>

 

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US and EU Groups Call for 'Ceasefire' on Trade Challenges to Climate Policies <[link removed]>

"This is simple," said one campaigner. "Climate action has to take precedence over trade rules." <[link removed]>

Kenny Stancil <[link removed]>

 

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'Time Is Up': Greenpeace Warns Global Ocean Treaty Under Threat of Failure <[link removed]>

"We are once again on the brink of these talks falling apart as countries have chosen not to rise to the occasion as they quibble over minor points," said one Greenpeace campaigner. <[link removed]>

Brett Wilkins <[link removed]>

 

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Analysis Spotlights the Lasting Pain Inflicted by Reagan's Social Security Cuts <[link removed]>

Life expectancy in the U.S. fell during the same period that a Reagan-era law raised the retirement age by two years. <[link removed]>

Jake Johnson <[link removed]>

 

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Consumer Advocates Say Supreme Court Must Rebuke 'Harebrained' Attack on CFPB <[link removed]>

"If the Supreme Court follows precedent, it will strike down the 5th Circuit's decision before it throws our economy into chaos," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. <[link removed]>

Brett Wilkins <[link removed]>

 

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Groups Warn of 'Financial Disaster for Millions' If Supreme Court Kills Student Debt Relief <[link removed]>

"If the Supreme Court sides with the extremist judges, millions of Americans' monthly costs will rise significantly when student loan payments resume later this year," says a report commissioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. <[link removed]>

Kenny Stancil <[link removed]>

 

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Leftist Elly Schlein-'Italy's AOC'-Elected to Confront Far-Right Giorgia Meloni <[link removed]>

"She's a force to be reckoned with," said one journalist. "I imagine Meloni & Co. won't be sleeping too well tonight." <[link removed]>

Julia Conley <[link removed]>

 

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Global Coalition Urges OECD to End 'Reprehensible' Oil and Gas Export Financing <[link removed]>

Such public funding, according to more than 175 civil society groups, is "helping prop up fossil fuel projects and infrastructure which would otherwise be too risky for the private sector to finance alone." <[link removed]>

Jake Johnson <[link removed]>





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At Least 58 Dead After Migrant Boat Breaks Apart Near Italian Coast <[link removed]>

 

Activist Erin Brockovich Leads East Palestine Residents in Town Hall Meeting <[link removed]>

 

Bush-Era US Ambassador Accuses Israel of 'Creeping Annexation' of West Bank <[link removed]>





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'Watering Down' the Reality of Life Under Israeli Apartheid Is a Crime <[link removed]>

Ahistorical and impractical because half-truths, or watered-down truths, never lead to justice and never affect a lasting change. <[link removed]>

Ramzy Baroud <[link removed]>

 

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Has the GOP Lost Its Brain? Hardly. <[link removed]>

This political party does still have ideas-extremely dangerous ones that must be soundly and permanently defeated. <[link removed]>

Jeffrey C. Isaac <[link removed]>

 

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Dear Gov. DeSantis: You're a History Grad. Please Tell Me When Systemic Racism Ended <[link removed]>

Greater unity around a shared understanding of history is exactly what DeSantis fears. Maybe all those history courses taught him that-though he clearly learned the wrong lesson. <[link removed]>

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