Julia Conley, staff writer
"Instead of responding to crises with calls for more police, our response must be much more holistic," said Rep. Jamaal Bowman after voting "present" on a bill to increase funding for the Capitol Police.
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Richard Falk
"Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the century-long struggle by the Palestinian people to defend their homeland against the unfolding Zionist project that stole their land, trampled on their dignity, and made Palestinians victimised strangers in what had been their national home for centuries?"
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The health system, which faces shortages even when there's no bombing, is out of key materials to treat the injured such as blood bags."
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Brian Terrell
"Those who use and profit from drones can wash their hands of the horror and bask in their stated good intentions, but the people who are targeted know them as tools of racism, terror and repression."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The United States government has been an agonizing party to the killing, disappearances, sexual violence, and other torture and horrendous repression of dozens of mostly peaceful demonstrations."
Joan Chittister
"The people who will be harmed are the people who did it. One hundred and forty-seven Republicans voted to expel Cheney from her leadership role for admitting that President Joe Biden won the election, not Donald Trump."
Julia Conley, staff writer
"Plans to make plans in no way matches the urgency of the climate crisis; we need action from regulators now to stop the money pipeline to climate chaos," said a coalition of 160 groups ahead of President Biden's executive order on climate-related financial risks.
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"A system that produces such extreme levels of violence cannot be reformed," asserted the ACLU of Louisiana, "it must be dismantled."
Saket Son
"U.S. immigration policy must include a new legal status for climate refugees."
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Don Wiener, Alex Kotch
"In the states that have not expanded Medicaid, residents have to weigh the costs of health insurance and medical care against other essential needs, such as housing, food, and transportation to work."
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Michael T. Klare
"A mere glance at the location of such concentrations suggests that the green-energy transition envisioned by President Biden and other world leaders may encounter severe geopolitical problems, not unlike those generated in the past by reliance on oil."
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The latest global report on internal displacement shows that "a person was forced to flee their home inside their own country every single second last year."
Robert C. Koehler
"The global status quo—this planet crisscrossed with arbitrary borders defining entities called nation-states—is addicted to slaughter: to dehumanizing and killing the inconvenient 'others' who stand in the way."
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Norman Solomon
"Israeli leaders," writes columnist Norman Solomon, "know that truth about human consequences of their policies is horrific when illuminated. That’s why they’re so eager to keep us in the dark."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"These billionaires are the human face of the huge profits many pharmaceutical corporations are making from the monopoly they hold on these vaccines."
