WEEK IN REVIEW: The Global Ruling Class Is Frog-Marching Us Towards Extinction

 

The Week in Review

GOP 'Working Hand in Hand With Big Pharma' to Kill Drug Price Reform Behind Closed Doors "Republicans are going to use every tool they have to keep drug prices high and drug industry profits higher," said one Democratic senator. Read more → Corporate Interests Have Given $21.5 Million to GOP 'Sedition Caucus' Since Jan. 6 Attack "Corporations owe an explanation as to why they keep funding Donald Trump's pawns in Congress who tried to finish what the insurrectionists started." Read more → Sanders Shreds Big Tech's $76 Billion 'Corporate Welfare' Payday in CHIPS Act "Bottom line: Let us rebuild the U.S. microchip industry, but let's do it in a way that benefits all of our society, not just a handful of wealthy, profitable, and powerful corporations." Read more → Fetterman Challenges Ultra-Millionaire Dr. Oz to Live on $7.25 an Hour "My opponent Dr. Oz doesn't care about the people across Pennsylvania who are hurting, and he doesn't even believe that our embarrassingly low minimum wage needs to be increased." Read more → After House Passes Assault Weapons Ban, Advocates Say Senate Opponents Must Be Forced to Vote The bill stands virtually no chance of passing in the Senate, but campaigners said a vote would "show young people why we need to turn out to expand [Democrats'] majority in the Senate." Read more → Following Trump's Lead, GOP Pushes Bill to Make Federal Workers Fireable 'At Will' "Efforts to try to change the civil service aren't just Trump," warned one public policy expert, "and if Republicans take control of Congress following the midterms, this may very well go from idea to specific action." Read more →

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Opinion

The Corporate Oligarchs Have Put Humanity on a Path Toward Self-Annihilation We are stumbling—seemingly oblivious—into the bared teeth of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch driven by humanity itself. We are walking straight into it and pretending it's not here. by Thom Hartmann Read more → The Global Ruling Class Is Frog-Marching Us Towards Extinction We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction. by Chris Hedges Read more → The Most Dangerous Looming Supreme Court Decision You Never Heard Of Spread the word, because the midterms elections have become even more crucial. by Robert Reich Read more →

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