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19/01/21
Author: 
Naveena Sadasivam
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Earlier this week, with national attention focused on accountability for the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the capitol building in Washington, D.C., Ohio quietly became the 13th state since 2017 to legislate harsher penalties for trespassing on or otherwise interfering with energy and industrial infrastructure — a move that activists and civil liberties groups say is a transparent attempt to criminalize nonviolent protest.

16/01/21
Author: 
Eric Foner

JANUARY 8, 2021

But the belief that America previously had a well-functioning democracy is an illusion.

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12/01/21
Author: 
Alan Macleod, Mintpress News
Trump and Zuckerberg

“This Will Be Remembered As A Turning Point.”

While many breathed a collective sigh of relief when Trump’s social media bans were announced, Edward Snowden and other internet freedom advocates warned that the move sets a dangerous precedent.

11/01/21
Author: 
Joe Lauria

Jan. 8, 2021

The storming of the Capitol may just be a harbinger of things to come.

With the normalization of mass shootings in the United States it is more than understandable that members of Congress feared for their lives when they learned protestors had forced their way into the Capitol in unknown numbers and were roaming around at will. 

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11/01/21
Author: 
Walden Bello
Pro-Trump extremists storm the U.S. Capitol (Photo: Shutterstock)

January 07, 2021

The violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists underlines the face of crises to come.

By mid-February 2021, American deaths from COVID-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By around mid-May, more Americans will have died from the virus than during the Civil War, which killed 655,000, and the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, when 675,000 are estimated to have perished.

05/01/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Installing solar panels - Peteonline22/Wikimedia Commons

JANUARY 4, 2021

A Minnesota regional planning agency is turning to the power of the sun to help improve a desperately tight housing market for low-income renters in the Twin Cities.

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