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Boycott duty free Americas: Don’t buy airport goods that fund Zionist settlers
Oct 10, 2021 06:55The South Florida Coalition for Palestine, a coalition of social justice organizations, has called for a campaign to boycott Duty Free Americas because of the role its owners play in funding the settler movement’s expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land.
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New study shows more than half of police killings have gone uncounted since 1980
Oct 09, 2021 06:30New research appears to confirm what Black Lives Matter activists and abolitionist organizers have said for years: There is a crisis of police-perpetrated killings in the United States that has gone underreported for decades, and people of color (and Black people especially) are most at risk.
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Hurricane Ida is proof US systemic racism aggravates effects of climate crisis
Oct 08, 2021 16:38When US government allows exploitative real estate corporations to develop shoddy private developments to maximize profit and displace Black residents, thousands are left without homes during a disaster.
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Stop calling US military budget a ‘defense’ budget
Oct 08, 2021 05:12It's bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a "defense" budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the same is an indication of how deeply the mindsets of the nation's warfare state are embedded in the political culture of the United States.
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Criminal inquiry into Trump’s Georgia election interference gathers steam
Oct 08, 2021 05:10Donald Trump is facing increasing legal scrutiny in the crucial battleground state of Georgia over his attempt to sway the 2020 election there, and that heat is now overlapping with investigations in Congress looking at the former president’s efforts to subvert American democracy.
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US officials knew of California oil spill 12 hours before cleanup began
Oct 07, 2021 07:05Records show more than 12 hours passed after American officials were notified of a sheen on the water off the coast of southern California before a response to the Huntington Beach oil spill began
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US coronavirus death toll reaches 700,000 as health officials push vaccines
Oct 06, 2021 17:58The US coronavirus death toll has crossed 700,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. With the country averaging just under 2,000 deaths per day from COVID-19, the death toll is a reminder that even with vaccines widely available, the US is still struggling with the pandemic.
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Jan. 6 was worse than we knew
Oct 06, 2021 17:56However horrifying the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol appeared in the moment, we know now that it was far worse. The country was hours away from a full-blown constitutional crisis — not primarily because of the violence and mayhem inflicted by hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters but because of the actions of Donald Trump himself.
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Biden’s expulsion of Haitian migrants is racist, illegal — and Trumpian
Oct 06, 2021 17:49Biden is continuing former president Donald Trump’s policy of misusing Title 42 in violation of U.S. treaty obligations. The Title 42 program stems from a misapplication of an obscure public health law, the Public Health Service Act of 1944.
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As rich nations waste doses, most African countries miss 10% vaccination goal
Oct 06, 2021 17:47More than two-thirds of Africa's 54 countries were denied the ability to vaccinate at least 10% of their populations against COVID-19 by September's end—a modest World Health Organization target—as rich nations continue to hoard doses and shield the pharmaceutical industry's monopoly control over production.