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Influential House Dem “Open to” Cluster Munitions for Ukraine
Regarding Adam Smith’s (D-Wash.) recent comment speaking favorably of potentially providing Ukraine with cluster ammunitions, Norman Solomon says, “As a leading Democrat on military matters, Rep. Smith is putting forward an attitude toward cluster munitions that could have notably pernicious effects. But he’s hardly alone. The moral corrosion — reflected in the current Capitol Hill discourse on cluster munitions — is distinctly bipartisan.”
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Peace Groups: The State Dept. Should Talk to the Russian Ambassador
Director of World Beyond War, David Swanson, has launched a campaign urging the United States government to communicate with the Russian Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov.
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Upcoming Election in Sierra Leone
Chernoh Alpha Bah, founder of Africanist Press, is living in exile in the United States for exposing corruption within the ruling and opposition parties in Sierra Leone. One way the country’s leaders have tried silencing Bah is by hiring an Israeli firm to spy on him.
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Risk of Heart Disease in Younger People
Over half of young adults in the U.S. have cholesterol levels high enough to increase their lifetime risk of a heart attack. But just 20 percent of young adults with high cholesterol are aware of it.
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Blinken at AIPAC
“Secretary of State Blinken, after speaking to more ‘liberal Zionist’ J Street last year, will be reassuring the most effective Zionist lobbying organization, AIPAC, this year.”
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Hospital Fined for Short Staffing
In a win for the New York State Nurses Association, an arbitrator has fined Mount Sinai Hospital $127,000 for persistently understaffing its neonatal intensive care unit.
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CDC Acknowledges Police Killings in Mortality Report
In a new report, the CDC goes further than it ever has before in its discussion of police killings as a cause of violent death.
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MLK Would Have Called Debt Ceiling Deal “Demonic”
Making war invisible goes hand in hand with making gigantic military budgets uncontroversial — and disconnecting the profligate spending for the Pentagon from the depletion of resources for the common good. As long as the grim impacts of massive funding for the military are concealed from the American people, the actual consequences of the ‘demonic, destructive suction tube’ will remain hidden in plain sight.
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Debt Ceiling: Why the Democrats Keep Doing Groundhog Day
Democrats could have voted to eliminate the debt ceiling between the fall elections and January, when Republicans took control of the House, or they could have voted to provide the government with sufficient borrowing capacity until the next congressional elections in 2024. Instead, they chose this confrontation. Mr. Biden last fall labeled proposals to eliminate the debt ceiling ‘irresponsible.’
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Having a Baby = Higher Odds of Medical Debt
Having a baby in the last 12 months is associated with an increased chance of being in medical debt by nearly 50 percent.
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