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Power to make war
Mar 16, 2021 15:40US Congress should criminalize presidential violence and the expenditures of resources to support it, as it is a crime to kill without lawful authority. And Congress should call non- defensive killings – by the US government or anyone – by their legal name: Murder.
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Human Rights Watch watches out for US’ Bolivian friends, condemns amnesty for political prisoners
Mar 16, 2021 15:34Since its establishment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has consistently been criticized for being an agent of US foreign policy, employing former US government officials in key positions and displaying bias against governments unfriendly to the United States.
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The US stimulus payments’ big delivery snafus need to be addressed now
Mar 16, 2021 05:42Unfortunately, vendors hired by the US Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service to dispense the first two coronavirus payments to those without bank or credit union accounts failed to deliver.
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GOP-run states saw higher COVID death rates, study shows
Mar 15, 2021 12:58States with Democratic governors had the highest incidence and death rates from COVID-19 in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, but states with Republican governors surpassed those rates as the crisis dragged on, a study released recently found.
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Biden is still a hawk on Yemen
Mar 15, 2021 12:51With the hackneyed excuse of protecting allies, the Yemeni crisis will continue forth, fueled in large part by American sanctions, American intelligence, and American weapons.
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Vaccine passports a cause for hope and concern
Mar 15, 2021 12:47Disparities along income and racial lines have persisted in vaccination campaigns. For example, in the United States Black Americans have received the vaccine at half the rate of white Americans, and the disparity is even larger for Hispanic Americans.
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Wealth gained by US billionaires amid COVID could pay for two-thirds of relief bill
Mar 14, 2021 14:15The billionaire wealth growth represents two-thirds of the $1.9 trillion cost of pandemic rescue plan, which has been attacked by the GOP as too expensive.
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US military exposed 600,000 to toxins in Japan and Micronesia — and hid it
Mar 14, 2021 14:12A new book, Poisoning the Pacific, examines the US military’s long role in the environmental degradation of East Asia and Pacific islands, severely impacting the health of the region’s people and U.S. personnel stationed there.
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Violence towards Asian Americans has skyrocketed
Mar 14, 2021 06:16A new wave of anti-Asian racial violence is sweeping the US. Sadly, racial violence, bigotry and hatred directed at Asian Americans has scarred their history in this country.
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New report to expose war industry lobby behind $264 billion US nuclear missile 'boondoggle'
Mar 14, 2021 06:08A new report by the Federation of American Scientists reportedly argue that U.S. plans to spend up to $264 billion on construction and maintenance of a new nuclear missile are mostly being fueled by intense lobbying from the powerful weapons industry, not rational or humane strategic objectives.