We can no longer create a wasteland and call it peace.
Nations including Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have some of the world's most abysmal human rights records—but that isn't deterring the Biden administration from seeking to work with them.
"As long as Germany withholds its approval of the TRIPS waiver," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, "it threatens the lives of millions of people around the world and our ability to crush the virus."
"The Tongass is not only one of the few truly wild places left on the planet, it is vital to our path forward as we deal with climate change," said the Alaska-based group SalmonState.
"No amount of regulation can adequately address all the problems that flow from fracked drilling operations and our continued reliance on fossil fuels."
"Voters have a right to know when big money is flowing into their elections from D.C.-based groups hiding their agendas and funding behind fake names."
Instead of purchasing 88 new weapons of war and destruction, let's use these resources for healthcare, education, housing and clean water.
Germany's continued obstruction of the TRIPS waiver "means more people will die when they could have been saved if they had access to life-saving vaccines."
The demands detailed in the new "Five-Point Plan for Solidarity, Fairness, and Prosperity" paper include delivery of promised climate financing.
I'm fine with launching his wealthy clientele into space. It's bringing them back I’m not crazy about.
Any help or aid from the US always comes with conditions and ulterior motives.
"We urge HHS and the Army to use their authorities to immediately close the migrant detention center at Fort Bliss and prioritize the use of community-based solutions."
The U.S. government owes reparations to the civilians of Afghanistan for the past twenty years of war and brutal impoverishment.
Gene Sperling's disparagement of "this population of parents" came as the White House launched a child tax credit program that experts warn will exclude millions of the poorest families due to basic design flaws.
War is a cancer on our democracy.
Progressives cannot and should not be satisfied with the policies of the Biden presidency. Yet breakthrough achievements should not be denied.
"Of the many, many sectors of the economy and society that are underfunded, the Pentagon is not among them," said one backer of a letter signed by 48 organizations.
The global poor have been living, and dying, from climate-driven disasters for years—but the mainstream media in richer nations is nowhere to be found.
The U.S. government's intense determination to prosecute Daniel Hale is precisely because his principled moral courage asks the profound questions its leaders and defenders do not want asked.
"Joe Manchin is lying to us about climate change to protect his annual profits and the wealth of his family."
"As we deal with a devastating climate crisis caused by decades of unchecked corporate greed, we need to center our children and their future."
"No Senate rule supersedes people's constitutional rights," said the Democratic senator from Georgia.
The findings, said one expert, "show that the uncertain future is happening now."
"We really hoped the European Commission would live up to its promise of a Green Deal that leaves no one behind, but instead this package gives energy-poor people a punch on the nose."
