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US Puts 8,500 Troops on High Alert as Tension Rises Between NATO and Russia
The U.S. is preparing to deploy troops in the event that Russia invades Ukraine, which Putin denies is his goal.
Tonga Remains Covered in Ash Following Volcanic Eruption
Water tanks polluted by ash and severed telecommunications are lingering aftereffects of the blast.
Pandemic Accommodations Proved We Can Vastly Expand Disability Access If We Try
Significant accommodations were offered once the pandemic started affecting the capitalist class.
Unions Have the Potential and the Responsibility to Advance a “Just Transition”
The “jobs vs. environment” myth is rendered moot in a truly just transition, which must involve collective bargaining.
Vaccine Profits Minted 9 New Billionaires While Vaccine Apartheid Drove Omicron
The super-rich have prolonged the pandemic as 99 percent of the world's people have seen their incomes drop.
Amid Rising Russia Tension, US May Stumble Into War, Warns Katrina vanden Heuvel
“More attention should be paid to how we can exit these conflicts, how we can find a way for an independent Ukraine.”
Bree Newsome Bass: “Capitalism Has to Collapse”
Organizers Kelly Hayes and Bree Newsome Bass discuss long COVID, voting rights and getting organized.
Voting Rights Cannot Be Separated From Economic Justice, Says William Barber
Barber criticized the Democrats for bifurcating the Build Back Better economic legislation from voting rights.
More Afghans May Die From US Sanctions Than at the Hands of the Taliban
Conditions in Kabul hospitals are rapidly deteriorating, and food insecurity is rampant.
Hundreds of Thousands of Children Are Homeless — and the Problem Is on the Rise
With the end of the federal eviction moratorium, experts fear child homelessness is even higher than the data suggests.