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Supreme Court Inaction on New York Vaccine Mandate “Way Too Early to Celebrate”
The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place New York’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, which had received a challenge over its lack of a religious exemption. Health law experts say it is too early to celebrate the move.
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Is Monkeypox a Major Threat?
Last week, the World Health Organization declined to declare monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Infectious disease expert Gregg Gonsalves warns that inaction may result in monkeypox becoming “a new resident infection in the gay community.”
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AIPAC “Astroturf Groups” Flooding Airwaves Against Progressive Donna Edwards
Independent journalist and researcher Richard Silverstein criticizes the United Democracy Project, a spinoff of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, for spending millions against progressive Democrats such as Donna Edwards
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Inflation Caused by Supply Constraints and Soaring Corporate Profits Far More than Wages
Pia Malaney, senior economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking said today, “Tackling inflation effectively demands that the administration focus on the real pressures — supply constraints and soaring corporate profits.”
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Ahead of Biden Visit, State Department “Investigation” into Killing of U.S.-Palestinian Journalist Gives Israel Another Pass
Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadaliyya ezine, criticizes the State Department for the inadequate investigation regarding the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeili military
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Report: Trump Era Covid Strategy “Likely Resulted in Many Deaths”
Last week, the congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released a report on the Trump administration’s embrace of a herd immunity strategy via mass infection in the second half of 2020 and first months of 2021.
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Migrants Dead in Trailer “Predictable”
Author Tod Miller recently spoke of the billions the US has invested into making the border as militarized and dangerous as possible. He said, “Between 8,000 and 10,000 people have died crossing the U.S. Mexico border since the mid 1990s.”
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Maxwell Sentenced to 20 Years for Conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein: Will Powerful Men be Held Accountable?
While Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced for sex trafficking minors and consorting with Jeffrey Epstein, the scores of powerful men involved remain unpunished.
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Michigan Supreme Court Uses “Star Chamber” to Kill Flint Water Charges Against Officials
In regards to the Michigan Supreme Court reversing the charges of the officials responsible for the Flint water crisis, Flint Rising, a project aimed to help those harmed says, “This leaves no one criminally responsible for poisoning 100,000 people in one of the largest public health disasters in this nation’s history.”
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Covid Behind Bars Project Finds Failure of Geriatric Parole Reform
Since the start of the pandemic, UCLA Law’s Covid Behind Bars Project has tracked, collected and analyzed public information about Covid-19 in prisons, jails, youth facilities and immigration detention centers. Now, the project has released analysis showing Nevada’s emergency medical use mechanisms failed to provide a single geriatric parole hearing during the pandemic.
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