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Big Tech’s “Corporate Welfare” and $1 Trillion Spent on Stock Buybacks
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Amazon Acquires One Medical, Expanding the Company’s “Data-opoly”
Amazon announced last week it would buy primary health care provider One Medical for nearly $4 billion. Maurice Stucke, a professor of antitrust and privacy law, says that the concern here is not that major companies “are getting the same data but more of it… the concern is that they’re getting another important piece of us.”
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AIPAC Targeting Pro-Israeli Jewish Congressman
Ronald Aronson says that AIPAC’s targeting of Rep. Andy Levin is because of his proposed Two-State Solution Act, something which has been neglected “except as a shibboleth to which lip service must be given to undercut accusations of ‘apartheid.'”
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Democrats Keeping Greens Off Ballot in North Carolina
Legal counsel for the Center for Competitive Democracy, Oliver Hall condemns the North Carolina State Board of Elections for failing to attest the North Carolina Green Party as a new political party.
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Researchers Learning More About the Neurological Effects of Long Covid
Recent research is shedding light on how SARS-CoV-2 “readily forms aggregated protein clumps that look very similar to amyloid deposits seen in the brains of people with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.”
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“AIPAC Has Taken Over the Democratic Primary Process”
In addition to spending millions against the progressive Donna Edwards, The American Prospect reports that AIPAC is now targeting progressive congressman Andy Levin.
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Biden Won’t Stop Drilling and Fracking on Federal Lands
“Biden stated repeatedly and unequivocally that upon taking office he would halt all new leases for drilling and fracking on federal lands. This action does NOT require the declaration of a climate emergency. He could have done it on day one. Instead, he allowed new leasing and permitting of drilling and fracking at even a higher rate than under the Trump administration over the same period.”
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#DontRunJoe
Jeff Cohen, co-founder of RootsAction recently said about Biden, “It’s his performance — his inability to fight for working people and stand up against Republican and corporate obstruction — that has us worried about 2024.”
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The Future of Covid Vaccines as FDA Provides Emergency OK for Novavax
On Wednesday, the FDA granted emergency use authorization to the Novavax vaccine, a two-dose series manufactured using older, protein-based vaccine technology. Experts hope the shot’s more traditional technology will help persuade ‘vaccine hesitant’ individuals to get vaccinated, providing an alternative to the mRNA vaccines that have dominated the U.S. vaccination program in the past 18 months.
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Saudi War on Yemen: Is Congress Finally Ending U.S. Support?
Peace activist and author Kathy Kelly recently wrote, “It seems that [Biden’s] trip will not include Yemen, though if this were truly a ‘sensitive’ visit, he would be stopping at one of Yemen’s many beleaguered refugee camps.”
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