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A car crash in the California desert: How 13 died riding in one S.U.V.
Apr 07, 2021 09:50The maroon Ford Expedition was so heavy its wheels spun at first in the soft desert sand as it cleared a breach in the border wall. It then sped down a dirt road as Mexico disappeared in the rearview mirror. Twenty-five people held on inside, many jammed on the floor, others hunched half-standing between them.
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Yemen’s blood is on US hands, and still US lies about war
Apr 07, 2021 09:36Biden promised that the US would be “ending all American support for operations in the war in Yemen.” Biden gave no specific details. The six-year bombing continues. The six-year naval blockade of Yemen continues. The humanitarian crisis continues, with the threat of famine looming. In effect, Biden has participated in war crimes since January 20, with no policy in sight to end the killing.
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Biden’s push for a more noble capitalism is destined to fail
Apr 07, 2021 09:30Transforming an entrenched system of profit-driven capitalism to one of stakeholder capitalism will require more than talk. It will require the hard work of passing concrete legislation — legal reform to hold corporations accountable. So far, two months into Biden’s presidency, that appears nowhere in sight.
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Biden plans Afghanistan train wreck
Apr 06, 2021 10:00Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both increased the number of American personnel in Afghanistan before reducing them. Moreover, Biden, despite joining his predecessor in criticizing “endless wars,” never committed to implementing the peace accord. Withdrawing quickly would be the only proper response, ending American involvement in Afghanistan’s endless war.
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How cutting down US military spending could bring about peace
Apr 06, 2021 09:52Certainly US history as well as its record of causing, not preventing, chaos undercut any idea of US moral authority. Moreover, the numerous US violations of international laws, its failure to ratify treaties that, among other things, ban land mines and cluster bombs and safeguard the rights of women and of children, and its failure to join the International Criminal Court, hardly recommend it for a position of leadership.
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Florida faces 'imminent' pollution catastrophe from phosphate mine pond
Apr 06, 2021 09:45Work crews were pumping millions of gallons of contaminated wastewater into an ecologically sensitive Florida bay on Sunday (April 04, 2021), as they tried to prevent the “imminent” collapse of a storage reservoir at an old phosphate mine.
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Flood risks are rising amid climate change, but US Congress is delaying action
Apr 06, 2021 09:28Floods are the most common disaster in the United States. And the 2020 hurricane season was the busiest to date in the Atlantic — 73 percent more “active” than normal, The Washington Post reported, with a record number of storms breaking ground on U.S. soil, totaling $37 billion in damage.
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46 million in US say they would not be able to afford needed health care
Apr 06, 2021 09:22According to the report by Gallup and West Health, 18% of U.S. adults — around 46 million people — say that if they needed access to quality healthcare today, they would not be able to cover the costs.
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How Trump steered supporters into unwitting donations
Apr 04, 2021 12:21Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Donald J. Trump’s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could: $500.
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Rich countries are using vaccines as a power play — and everyone could suffer
Apr 04, 2021 04:00The vast majority of U.S.-made vaccines are still being held for use only in the U.S., and poorer countries in the hemisphere are being largely denied access to the vaccines.