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March 06, 2023
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Analysis Shows Major US Oil Companies Raked in $290 Billion in Profits Last Year <[link removed]>
"With $290 billion in profits, Big Oil made enough money in 2022 to end world hunger, pay off U.S. medical debt, and build 10 Disney Worlds, but instead used their record profits to shower $163 billion on shareholders." <[link removed]>
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Majority of US Voters Want the Fed to Stop Raising Rates Before It Tanks the Economy: Poll <[link removed]>
"People understand that pushing millions of workers out of a job is a terrible way to address inflation," said one economist. <[link removed]>
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100+ Groups Urge Congress to Abandon 'Carbon Utilization Fantasy' <[link removed]>
"Promoting the utilization of captured CO2 in petrochemicals, plastics, and fuels, as your legislation would encourage, will perpetuate environmental justice harms and subsidize the oil and gas industry to do it." <[link removed]>
Jessica Corbett <[link removed]>
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'This Is Not Enough': Under Pressure, Norfolk Southern Agrees to Limited Relocation Plan <[link removed]>
"We're going to keep pushing until the community gets the help it is owed," said Ohio River Valley organizers. <[link removed]>
Julia Conley <[link removed]>
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Investigation Reveals Global Collagen Demand Driving Deforestation, Rights Abuses in Brazil <[link removed]>
"Did you sprinkle a little collagen in your smoothie this morning? Might be worth looking into where it came from," said one reporter. <[link removed]>
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Amid Global Hunger Crisis, Commodity Speculators Reap Record-Shattering Profits <[link removed]>
Commodity trading firms made a killing last year "gambling on the basics of life," said one human rights campaigner. <[link removed]>
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Groups Sue to Stop Biden From Offering 73 Million Acres to Oil Drillers in Gulf of Mexico <[link removed]>
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Defusing 'Methane Bombs' Key to Averting Climate Catastrophe: Experts <[link removed]>
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Judy Heumann, 'Mother of Disability Rights Movement,' Dies at 75 <[link removed]>
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Jewish New Yorkers Rally to Demand 'End to All US Military Funding to Israel' <[link removed]>
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Israeli Anti-Government Protests Hit New Heights as 200,000 March in Tel Aviv <[link removed]>
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Why Warren Buffett Is Wrong and Joe Biden Is Right About Stock Buybacks <[link removed]>
Companies don't get better because of buybacks. Shareholders only get richer. <[link removed]>
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Living, Killing, and Dying on a World Full of Red Lines <[link removed]>
A key problem with the issuance of red lines is their tendency to inspire international conflict and war. <[link removed]>
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"Haole," Hawaii, Hate Crimes, and White Supremacy <[link removed]>
Most white Americans aren't used to being identified racially, not used to thinking about our whiteness, and certainly not our settler status. <[link removed]>
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