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11/10/24
Author: 
Edward Carver
Voting rights activists march in Washington, D.C. in 2021. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Oct. 10, 2024

"Felony disenfranchisement echoes policies of the past, like poll taxes and literacy tests," an advocate said.

The Sentencing Project on Thursday released a report estimating that 4 million U.S. adults are ineligible to vote in the 2024 election due to felony disenfranchisement, including a disproportionate number of people of color.

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11/10/24
Author: 
Thom Hartmann
Jill Stein, the 2024 Green Party presidential candidate, during an event with Workers Strike Back and the "Abandon Harris" campaign at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, MI on Friday, Oct. 6, 2024. (Photo by Dominic Gwinn / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

Oct 10, 2024 

Running for president and keeping an iron grip on the once-noble Green Party has become Stein’s singular mission. And she’s killing the Party — and its once-sterling reputation — in the process.

Jill Stein doesn’t give, as the old saying goes, a flying f*ck about democracy. Instead, she’s all about how famous she can become and how much money she can grift off her repeated presidential campaigns. It’s a damn dangerous game.

06/10/24
Author: 
Brad Plumer
The Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan will reportedly be awarded a $1.5 billion federal loan, aimed at restarting operations after a 2022 closure. The federal funding could bolster state efforts to keep nuclear power on the grid, as leaders seek to transition to carbon-free electricity (Courtesy of The Herald-Palladium).

Sept. 30, 2024

No one has ever restarted an American nuclear reactor that was seemingly closed for good. But with electricity demand spiking, interest is growing.

The Energy Department said on Monday that it had finalized a $1.52 billion loan guarantee to help a company restart a shuttered nuclear plant in Michigan — the latest sign of rising government support for nuclear power.

06/10/24
Author: 
Robert Reich
‘Vance would never have become a senator from Ohio in 2022 were it not for billionaire tech financier Peter Thiel, who staked $15m on Vance’s election.’ Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images

Oct. 3, 2024

Rightwing tech lords are betting that Vance will be the Republican presidential pick in 2028. They’re probably right

JD Vance, the Republican candidate for vice-president, will almost certainly be the Republican presidential candidate in 2028, regardless of whether Donald Trump wins in November.

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06/10/24
Author: 
Isaac Chotiner
Israeli military vehicles in the northern part of the country, on September 30th.Photograph by Leo Correa / AP

Oct. 3, 2024

What does the Biden Administration want Netanyahu to do in Lebanon and Gaza?

October 3, 2024

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30/09/24
Author: 
Scott Ritter, Consortium News
Photo: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. CQ Brown, host the 24th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base, Germany on Sept. 9. DoD/Chad J. McNeeley.

Sept. 28, 2024

Life Preempted

Policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are undertaking increasingly brazen acts of escalation in Ukraine.

Designed to bring Russia to the breaking point.

If you’re not thinking about the end of the world by now, you’re either braindead or stuck in some remote corner of the world, totally removed from access to news.

Earlier this month we came closer to a nuclear conflict between the U.S. and Russia than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

Today we are even closer.

29/09/24
Author: 
Primary Author: Compiled by Gaye Taylor
Province of B.C./flickr

Sept. 25, 2024

Right across North America, sky high insurance rates are straining affordable housing providers and the millions who depend on them for shelter, while pushing new housing developments and retrofits out of reach.

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