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CRISPR Comes with Serious Threats
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are slated to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in Sweden on Thursday, Dec. 10 for developing the genome-editing technology CRISPR.
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Flournoy: Hawk with Ties to Weapons Industry
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Over 1,000 Educators Urge Biden to Pick Kumashiro for Education
Anticipation and advocacy is building around Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Education and whether his policies will significantly depart from past decades.
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Pressure Grows on Biden on Pentagon Pick
“Ms. Flournoy’s consistent support for military interventions has contributed to devastating crises around the world, including in Yemen.”
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Public Citizen Demands to Biden
The group highlights a series of actions Biden could take, for example swiftly rescinding old executive orders and issuing new ones.
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Should Michèle Flournoy Be Defense Secretary?
Michèle Flournoy is facing opposition for her hawkish record and financial entanglements with the weapons industry.
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Biden’s OMB Nominee: Firestorm of Criticism
Joe Biden has just nominated Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, as his director of the Office of Management and Budget. This has produced a range of criticism online.
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Biden Foreign Policy: Corporate, Pro-War, Secretive
“As an effort to undermine anti-war Democrats and promote Bush’s plans to invade Iraq, Flournoy claimed that the U.S. needed to ‘strike preemptively before a crisis erupts to destroy an adversary’s weapons stockpile’ before it “could erect defenses to protect those weapons, or simply disperse them.”
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Blinken: AIPAC is Pleased
According to Tony Blinken, Joe Biden’s senior advisor, ‘He [Biden] would not tie military assistance to Israel to any political decisions that it makes.’
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Tony Blinken: Iraq War Propagandist?
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