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77 Years After Hiroshima, Public “Shockingly Oblivious” to Threat of Nuclear War
Co-founder of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area, John Steibach says, “The public is shockingly oblivious to the threat of global nuclear war. This is the most dangerous period, even exceeding the Cuban missile crisis.”
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Health Advocates Say “We Can’t Fail” to Accurately Frame Monkeypox
Days after the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global emergency, the U.S. has reported more than 3,000 confirmed cases of the virus. The Biden administration is likely to follow the WHO’s lead by the end of the week in a move that would expand the nation’s ability to respond to the virus.
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Healthcare Companies Fighting Drug Price Reform
New reporting shows that Republican lawmakers are working behind closed doors to “tank” the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug-pricing provisions. Public Citizen advocate Steve Knievel says that Democrats “should do what they can now––full stop.”
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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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