Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"U.S. allies... deployed troops, lost service members, and spent tax dollars on wars that were of little concern to their own national security. They did so largely because of the value they placed on their alliances with the U.S.," according to the Costs of War Project.
Julia Conley, staff writer
"There is an opportunity here for cities to access funding and to implement climate projects focused on increasing resilience, protecting the most vulnerable and building an equitable and fair society," said the Carbon Disclosure Project of the recovery from the pandemic.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We are on the brink of a full-scale war," warned UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore. "In any war, children—all children—suffer first and suffer most."
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Rebekah Entralgo
"There’s no 'labor shortage'—just a shortage of people who will work for starvation wages, especially during a pandemic that’s hit low-wage workers the hardest."
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Biden can't get distracted by this false idea of bipartisanship when there's so much at stake."
Lewis M. Steel
"From brutalizing protestors to rolling back voting rights, don’t get it confused: The right has always tried to 'cancel' the views it despises."
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Lisa Aronson Fontes
"Men who kill their female partners usually dominate them first—sometimes without physical violence. Indeed, for 28% to 33% of victims, the homicide or attempted homicide was the first act of physical violence in the relationship."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"It's simple: Clean energy should be clean."
Julia Conley, staff writer
"The combination of poor strategic choices, unwillingness to tackle inequalities, and an uncoordinated system created a toxic cocktail which allowed the pandemic to turn into a catastrophic human crisis."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This should bust the myth that generals automatically deserve our respect," said Joe Cirincione of the Quincy Institute.
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Jeff Hauser
"After people understand that it's possible to challenge the pharmaceutical industry, drastically lower prohibitive costs, and save lives, it's easy to see how the political grounds might shift."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Pentagon remains the only agency in the federal government that cannot pass an independent audit. Not acceptable."
Ramzy Baroud
"Colonialism in Israel was, and remains, a state-run project, which ultimately aims at achieving the same objective that is being carried out in Sheikh Jarrah—the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to ensure Jewish demographic majority."
Phil Torres
"How many times do venerable scientists need to scream that unless humanity changes course immediately, we face unprecedented crises—perhaps even our extinction—in the coming decades or centuries?"
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"This country will never achieve a fair and equitable recovery from Covid-19 if we continue to have a system where corporations and the wealthy get richer while everyone else is left behind," said Oxfam.
Nnimmo Bassey
"Why should anyone allow the quest for petrodollars to turn the Okavango Basin into an arena of death?" asks Nnimmo Bassey about big oil drilling project planned for Botswana and Namibia.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Consumer advocates say Trump's gift to payday lenders is "doing active harm right now, defending a predatory business model that destroys small businesses, homes, and lives."
Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
Common Dreams staff
"The United States must call for an immediate cease-fire and an end to provocative and illegal settlement activity," says Sen. Bernie Sanders. "And we must also recommit to working with Israelis and Palestinians to finally end this conflict."
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