"Duterte along with his co-accused henchmen of the war on drugs will be facing justice."
Ending enhanced unemployment benefits didn’t get people back to work. It just made them poorer.
"No equitable or just climate solutions can emerge from such an unjust process."
"The Federal Reserve's role is not to surrender our planet to corporate polluters and shepherd our financial system to its destruction," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, among the Democrats urging the Fed to end fossil fuel financing.
Fires, floods, killer heat-waves, droughts, and hurricanes are ravaging homes and families throughout the world. Some fear that this might be the new normal; however, the truth is that this is just the start of something much worse.
"Any politician standing in the way of lower drug prices is on a short path to losing their job."
The resulting credibility vacuum has enabled unscrupulous politicians, agents of chaos, and other charlatans to position themselves as experts.
"Jessica Cisneros will take bold action to fight back against unyielding attacks from anti-choice politicians in Texas and across the country."
Unless we're willing to give up some of our power over nature—our power to extract and transform resources and deliver the goods that we have come to rely on—then we're destined to careen from one disaster to the next until our worst fears are realized.
The latest tax proposals in Congress are an okay first step, but don't go far enough to address one of the biggest enablers of dynastic wealth.
"I simply just could not allow this to happen without at least trying."
Nobody really knows what prospects await Afghan refugees when countries have yet to see human rights as rights for all humans.
"An increasing number of people around the world are suffering from ever more severe and frequent impacts of climate change, yet government action continues to lag behind what is needed."
"That's the compromise that's already been made," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "The truth is $3.5 trillion is not enough."
"This leaked contract teaches the world more about how to make mRNA vaccines than anything done by rich countries so far."
"The crisis is deepening faster than Newsom is acting... Newsom's fight isn't over because our fight isn't over."
Our planet cannot handle an eternal growth model. We live in a finite system and capitalist innovation can only take us so far. Eventually we run out of resources. Climate appears to be the limit.
"Governments have an opportunity now to transform agriculture into a major driver of human well-being, and into a solution for the imminent threats of climate change, nature loss, and pollution."