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Texas blackout reveals deep impact of environmental racism, aid organizers say
Feb 24, 2021 07:06The parts of Texas which took the biggest hit from Winter Storm Uri are largely under-resourced communities of color whose infrastructure has long been inadequate and neglected, mutual aid organizers say.
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US workers cried out for more masks. The government allowed N95 exports anyway
Feb 24, 2021 06:58In the midst of a national shortage of N95 masks, the U.S. government quietly granted an exception to its export ban on protective gear, allowing as many as 5 million of the masks per month to be shipped overseas.
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Second phase of the Revolution: Leap in production
Feb 24, 2021 06:48Steel and steel products, copper and copper concentrates, cement and clinker, lead and zinc, building decoration stones, tile and ceramics are the minerals that Iran exports to neighboring countries, China and the countries of Southeast Asia.
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White supremacy set the stage for Texas’ miserable disaster response
Feb 23, 2021 18:31The wealthy, privileged whites served by the Texas’s dominant political class are a small minority of the population. That’s the ongoing legacy of conquest, and colonialism.
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US cities are razing homeless encampments despite record cold weather and COVID
Feb 23, 2021 18:29In defiance of pandemic guidelines, city agencies and police across the US have refused to suspend the practice of demolishing encampments and driving out those who have sought to make shelter, potentially exposing vulnerable people to dangerous temperatures and worsening viral spread.
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How Texas’ drive for energy independence set it up for disaster
Feb 23, 2021 18:26Across the plains of West Texas, the pump jacks that resemble giant bobbing hammers define not just the landscape but the state itself: Texas has been built on the oil-and-gas business for the last 120 years, ever since the discovery of oil on Spindletop Hill near Beaumont in 1901.
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Biden says US ready to re-engage with parties to Iran nuclear deal
Feb 21, 2021 06:06US President Joe Biden says America stands ready to “re-engage” with the group of countries that are party to a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, less than three years after his predecessor, Donald Trump, pulled Washington out of the multilateral deal.
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Texas’ power crisis has turned into a disaster that parallels Hurricane Katrina
Feb 21, 2021 05:57With hundreds of thousands of people still without power in Texas, some contending that they have no water coming out of their faucets at all, and others facing burst pipes leading to collapsed ceilings and other damage to their homes, the situation is dire for many Texans facing multiple problems at once.
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COVID deaths in US lead to biggest drop in life expectancy since WWII
Feb 21, 2021 05:52While there have been drops in life expectancy in the US in recent years due to increases in drug overdoses, the decline over the past year, in large part due to the coronavirus pandemic, is the biggest drop in life expectancy since World War II.
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Eight-year-old boy dies as migrants risk Arctic conditions to cross river into US
Feb 20, 2021 06:51A child has drowned while crossing the freezing Rio Grande river with his family amid unprecedented weather conditions at US-Mexico border.