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Is the U.S. Heading Toward a Railroad Workers Strike?
The Real News reports: “…an overwhelming number of surveyed workers seem prepared to reject the PEB’s recommendations, and if the current contract dispute isn’t resolved the US could be headed towards its largest rail strike in decades.”
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Gorbachev’s Contested Legacy: The Soviet State Did Not “Collapse”
David M. Kotz, coauthor of Russia’s Path from Gorbachev to Putin, said today: “Democracy and individual rights cannot survive in a country with an oligarchic capitalism and extreme inequality.”
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Alaska Joins Maine with Rank Choice Voting
“That Alaska pulled this election off without a hitch — even when they had to implement RCV much faster than expected following the passing of Don Young — speaks to just how straightforward RCV is,” says FairVote president Rob Richie.
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Extensive Fall Booster Campaign Could Save 160,000 Lives
Analysis shows that an extensive fall booster vaccination campaign could save 160,000 lives and avert $109 billion in medical costs. Yet public health experts say we will be lucky if we can get 25 to 30 percent of the U.S. population boosted.
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FDA Authorizes Omicron Boosters for Imminent Rollout
The FDA has authorized new booster shots targeting Omicron subvariants, which will be available to the public in the United States as early as next week.
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Gorbachev * Ended Cold War * Unpopular in Russia
Experts are available for interviews in the wake of Gorbachev’s death. Says Katrina vanden Heuvel: “Gorbachev was perhaps the most radical thinker about security to ever lead a major world power — and to ever lead a nuclear weapons state. As Soviet president, he reversed generations of military buildup and democratized the Soviet Union and put an end to the Cold War — for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize.”
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Activist Moms Confront EPA’s “Criminal Negligence” on Sept. 20
After her daughter, Taylor, was diagnosed with cancer, Susan’s investigative skill set exposed a dirty secret in her town — coal ash from the local Duke Energy power plant was sold and used as structural fill as a substitute for soil to build communities throughout North Carolina. “No one told us, no one helped us,” she said. “Local and state governments, the EPA, the companies — they all failed us.”
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Establishment Narrative on Ukraine Based on Deceit and “Threat Inflation”
Ramzy Mardini writes in a new piece: “”Needless to say, Putin started an illegal and unjustified war. Yet, to enable a course correction toward a diplomatic solution, it’s the Western-based narrative about the war that requires a repudiation. … Today, the narrative of an unprovoked and maximum-aim war persists and dominates the public discourse in the West.”
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Implications of the Monkeypox Outbreak
Steven Thrasher’s book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide, was published earlier this month. Thrasher spoke with the Institute for Public Accuracy this week about how the current spread of monkeypox is relevant to the book’s themes.
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Pakistan’s Imran Khan “Terrorism” Charge Called “Grotesque”
The New York Times reports that the crackdown against former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan “appears to have heightened Mr. Khan’s popularity, analysts say, bolstering his claims that the military establishment conspired to topple his government in April.”
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