TOP NEWS: Biden Accused of Lighting Fuse for 'One of the Nation's Biggest Carbon Bombs'

July 07, 2022

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Surging Prices Amid Ukraine War Have Pushed 71 Million People Worldwide Into Poverty As the cost-of-living crisis intensifies, said one U.N. official, "the threat of increased social unrest grows by the day." by Julia Conley Biden Accused of Lighting Fuse for 'One of the Nation's Biggest Carbon Bombs' "This is pouring another 5 billion gallons of oil on the fire every year and bulldozing a national forest in the process," said one critic. "It's a horrifying step in the wrong direction." by Kenny Stancil Weapons Industry's $10 Million Investment in Congress Could Yield 450,000% Return "The military-industrial complex's campaign spending spree gives war profiteers an outsized influence over Pentagon funding votes," said a Public Citizen campaigner. by Jessica Corbett

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Opinion

Our "Normal" Climate Is Dead—Now We Live in an Emergency We can no longer tolerate the criminal political malpractice of those standing in the way of a green energy future. by Thom Hartmann Why Neil Gorsuch's Mother Would Be So Proud of the Destruction His Supreme Court Has Wrought Anne Gorsuch's brief, troubled tenure as EPA administrator had to have influenced the outlook of her then impressionable 16-year-old son. by David Helvarg America's $1.4 Trillion So-Called "National Security" Budget Makes Us Less Safe—Not More America and the world would be far safer places if this outrageous spending was drastically cut and those funds redirected to "moral" investments in people, society, and planetary health—not war and weapons. by William Hartung

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