Attorney General Keith Ellison Speech Disrupted By Water Protectors
by Akičita Šuŋka-wakaŋ Ska, Unicorn Riot
on October 10, 2021
St. Paul, MN – During a swearing-in ceremony of the new Dean and President Anthony Niedwiecki at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law on September 23, 2021, water protectors disrupted Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s keynote speech to gauge his support of Line 3.
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Stop Calling the Military Budget a ‘Defense’ Budget
by Norman Solomon
on October 05, 2021
It’s bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a “defense” budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the same is an indication of how deeply the mindsets of the nation’s warfare state are embedded in the political culture of the United States.
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The Big Business of Future Wars
by Walker Bragman, The Daily Poster
on October 05, 2021
While the Afghan war is over, the military-industrial complex could hit a new jackpot, according to one of the world’s biggest corporate consultancies.
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USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program
by David Dayen, The American Prospect
on October 05, 2021
The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card.
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Corporate Media Myths About the Chaos on Capitol Hill
by Jeff Cohen
on October 01, 2021
If you get your news about politics from corporate media, you’re getting myths from journalists and pundits instead of clarity.
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Taxpayers Still Subsidizing Big Oil — End It Now!
by Ro Khanna and Earl Blumenauer, San Francisco Chronicle
on October 01, 2021
Each year, Big Oil receives more than $20.5 billion a year in federal and state subsidies.
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Why is CNN doing PR for a Middle Eastern dictatorship?
by Eli Clifton, Responsible Statecraft
on October 01, 2021
The cable news giant is an ‘official broadcaster’ of an upcoming UAE state-run, six-month ‘expo’ that is seemingly meant to burnish its global image.
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Media Advisory: Picket Line and Vigil at U.S. Capitol to Challenge Rahm Emanuel Nomination
by RootsAction
on September 25, 2021
WHEN: Monday, Sept. 27 11 a.m. – News Conference Noon – Picket Line 1 p.m. – Vigil
WHERE: All three events at East side of U.S. Capitol (nearer Senate) next to steps
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Biden's Envoy to Haiti Resigns in Protest Over 'Inhumane' Deportations
by Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams
on September 24, 2021
The Biden administration's move to ramp up deportations at a time of overlapping crises will "add to Haiti's unacceptable misery," wrote Daniel Foote.
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After Her Nuclear Disaster Dress Rehearsal, Cynthia Lazaroff Has A Wake-Up Call For Our World As We Sleepwalk Into Nuclear Extinction
by Jackie Abramian, Forbes
on September 24, 2021
“There are nearly 13,500 nuclear warheads in current arsenals of nine nuclear-armed states. That the U.S. has more nuclear warheads than hospitals should be a wake-up call,” says award-winning documentary filmmaker, environmentalist, nuclear weapons abolition activist, Cynthia Lazaroff who having lived through a 38-minute nuclear cataclysm dress rehearsal in January 2018, hopes to wake up our world to the looming threat of sleepwalking into a nuclear disaster.
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