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Assange Case: Persecution for Exposing War Crimes
British Home Secretary has approved extraditi…
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Saudi: The Death of One is a Tragedy; the Death of Millions is a Statistic
Dr. Aisha Jumaan, regarding the war Saudi Arabia has waged on Yemen, writes in her latest piece, “News outlets in the United States give prime coverage to the war in Ukraine but mostly ignore the devastating war that the U.S. has supported.”
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338,000 U.S. Lives Could Have Been Saved from Covid, Study Finds
A new study has found that between the beginning of the pandemic until mid-March 2022, universal health care could have saved more than 338,000 lives from Covid-19, and demonstrates that a significant share of Covid mortality in the U.S. is “due to our reliance on a system of market-driven health care.”
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Does the Supreme Court Administer Justice?
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Trailer Park Residents Take on Venture Capitalists
Joseph Bullington, editor for In These Times, writes about a recent case of trailer park homeowners taking on the VCs who own the land they live on: “On Jan. 14, residents formed a cooperative, elected representatives, and voted to try to buy the park themselves.”
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New Database Aggregates Pandemic Policies
A database introduced this month aggregates state policies that had the goal of mitigating the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic consequences.
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New Paper: Corporate Profits Central Role in Causing Inflation
According to a new paper, “nearly two out of three of the biggest U.S. publicly traded companies had larger profit margins this year than they did in 2019, prior to the pandemic. Nearly 100 of these corporations did report profits in 2021 that are 50 percent above profit margins from 2019. Evidence from corporate earnings calls shows that CEOs are boasting about their ‘pricing power,’ meaning the ability to raise prices without losing customers. Even the Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has weighed in on this issue, stating that large corporations with near monopolistic market power are ‘raising…
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National Survey: More Older Adults Unvaccinated and Unboosted Than Previously Reported
A nationwide survey by the COVID States Project has found that a higher number of older Americans are unvaccinated and unboosted than widely reported in the CDC data used by most public health officials. Researchers say that the survey “sheds light on the critical need to vaccinate and boost older Americans.”
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Watergate at 50: The Hidden Hand of the CIA
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Chile Sends in Army Against Indigenous Group
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