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'Reckless': Doctors Without Borders slams US for hoarding 500 million vaccine doses
Oct 14, 2021 16:25The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has recently unveiled a new report estimating that the United States is hoarding nearly 500 million excess coronavirus vaccine doses—the most of any country—as poor nations across the globe remain without sufficient access to lifesaving shots.
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Eurasian consolidation ends US unipolar moment
Oct 14, 2021 16:09The Dushanbe Declaration was quite explicit on what Eurasian players are aiming at: “A more representative, democratic, just and multipolar world order based on universally recognized principles of international law, cultural and civilizational diversity, mutually beneficial and equal cooperation of states under the central coordinating role of the UN.”
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A quarter of all 'critical' US infrastructure at risk from flooding: Report
Oct 14, 2021 16:05The US infrastructure is not built to a standard that protects against the level of flood risk people face today, let alone how those risks will grow over the next 30 years as the climate changes.
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Climate protesters ask Biden to follow through on his campaign promises
Oct 13, 2021 06:02Climate protesters have gathered at the White House in Washington, DC where they warned US President Joe Biden to take their demands seriously, and declare a national emergency, and end projects involving fossil fuels.
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US schools gave kids laptops during the pandemic. Then they spied on them
Oct 13, 2021 05:52Thousands of school districts across the United States have installed surveillance software on school-provided devices to monitor their students’ online interactions.
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US lags behind most of world when it comes to plastic pollution regulation
Oct 12, 2021 05:30According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the US produced 35.7 million tons of plastic waste in 2018, more than 90% of which was either landfilled or burned.
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Anti-vaccine chiropractors capitalizing on COVID and sowing misinformation
Oct 11, 2021 12:35The Associated Press discovered a vocal minority in the US tout their supplements as alternatives, donate large sums of money to anti-vaccine organizations and sell anti-vaccine ads on Facebook and Instagram.
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Horrifying body camera footage shows Ohio police dragging paraplegic man by his hair
Oct 11, 2021 12:30Disturbing body camera footage appears to show American police officers dragging a paralyzed man out of his car by his hair.
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US fossil fuel companies paying top law firms millions to ‘dodge responsibility’
Oct 11, 2021 12:11According to a “climate scorecard” published in August, over the last five years, the 100 top ranked law firms in the US facilitated $1.36tn of fossil fuel transactions, represented fossil fuel clients in 358 legal cases and received $35m in compensation for their work to assist fossil fuel industry lobbying.
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CIA plan to poison Assange wasn’t needed, US found ‘lawful’ way to disappear him (2)
Oct 11, 2021 12:02The frightening point is that all the evidence suggests that the US was able to manipulate the legal processes in both Sweden and the UK to engineer Assange’s effective incarceration all that time, and to this day.