The saddest part is that the Biden administration, despite its many positive moves to restore respect to scientific rigor, followed fear more than science in its first major action in response to the Omicron variant.
We know exactly what they are doing in many cases, but the corporate crooks at the top of giant companies still get away with profiting from their corporate crime wave.
"Pharma execs and shareholders are making a killing from a crisis they helped to create," said one justice campaigner.
"This is who they are," said the Minnesota Democrat. "And we have to be able to stand up to them. And we have to push them to reckon with the fact their party right now is normalizing anti-Muslim bigotry."
The result of continuing both 'Remain in Mexico' and Title 42 is a complete and ongoing shutdown of asylum at the southern border. The situation is unacceptable.
While Belgium's position, on its own, is praiseworthy—as it reflects the ceaseless activism and pressure of the country's own civil society—it should not be seen as an alternative to a courageous political and moral position, similar to the one taken during the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
A democratic world parliament that is freely elected by all world’s citizens needs to be a centerpiece of any legitimate future global organization.
Newsom should use his political capital to persuade Californians that ending the death penalty is the right thing to do.
We need more imaginative thinking and discussion about how to rid the planet of corporate capitalism and the psychopathic predator class's power and control that's responsible for monstrous crimes, obscene inequality, and an accelerating death spiral toward mass extinction.
