Source: Joe Biden’s ‘magical thinking’ on the filibuster is deeply mistaken – Alternet.org
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The Drug Companies Are Killing People
I get to say this about the drug companies, now that President Biden has said that Facebook is killing people because it was allowing people to use its system to spread lies about the vaccines. There is actually a better case against the drug companies. After all, they are using their government-granted patent monopolies, and More
Source: The Drug Companies Are Killing People – CounterPunch.org
As Biden Backslides, A Bigger, Better-Organized Climate Movement Prepares to Seize This ‘Now or Never’ Moment
Over 500 activists from the youth-led Sunrise Movement descended on Washington, D.C. last week for one of the largest U.S. climate protests since COVID-related restrictions began easing. The young people rallied in front of the White House on June 28, to hear from a range of speakers, including Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush, Indigenous pipeline fighters from Anishinaabe land in Minnesota and Sunrise organizers from all corners of the country. All called on President Biden to act swiftly to address the climate crisis.
Merkel feeds pandemic
Powerful action today outside the German Consulate in SF @GermanyinSF @GermanyinUSA. Germany needs to do the right thing and support the #TRIPSwaiver. Every day of delay = more death. Shame on Angela #Merkel for putting #BigPharma profits before humanity. pic.twitter.com/BMAjUjfiph
— CTJC (@CAtradejustice) July 16, 2021
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/16/summit-was-failure-biden-merkel-meeting-ends-no-deal-vaccine-patent-waiver
Blocking Biden
“There is no darkness but ignorance.” – Shakespeare, Twelfth Night When I was a kid in sleep-away camp, I dreaded the onset of August because it meant we were nearing the end of a glorious summer and heading back home. That’s similar to the way I feel about the Biden presidency. I don’t want its More
House Passes Resolution to Reverse ‘Reckless’ Trump-Era Methane Rule
“Biden should direct the EPA to use the full power of the Clean Air Act to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas by 65% by 2025,” said one advocate.
Source: House Passes Resolution to Reverse ‘Reckless’ Trump-Era Methane Rule | Common Dreams News
The 50 Trillion Dollar Question: What is Austerity?
The modern system of austerity took shape in the mid-1970s and we are still in its grip. Austerity is meant to trap us in a destructive double-bind; the race to the bottom for millions of people is also the race to the top for the few. The cost? More than $50 trillion. The human cost in misery, death, and despair? Devastating yet uncounted. More
Source: The 50 Trillion Dollar Question: What is Austerity? – CounterPunch.org
Biden’s Broken Promises Spell Hard Times Ahead
Biden and the Dems may figure they can abandon workers, because who will they turn to? Ignominious Trump? The would-be Republican Reich devoted to worker destruction? Not likely. But they could stay home during the mid-terms and, even more devastatingly for Dems, in 2024. Then we’ll have a one-party autocracy, as one twitter wag put it, with giant bronze statues of Trump everywhere. Remember: Obama’s betrayal of tens of millions of workers to bail out bankers ultimately gave us Trump. And that demagogue waits in the wings. Biden’s broken promises may just give him the opening he needs. More
Source: Biden’s Broken Promises Spell Hard Times Ahead – CounterPunch.org
