COMMON DREAMS: Top News: Fears of 'Disastrous' War Grow

 

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Friday, April 12, 2024 ■ Today's Top News  The Speech Online Given by Yanis Varoufakis After German Police Raid Palestine Congress "Friends, we are here because vengeance is a lazy form of grief. We are here to promote not vengeance but peace and coexistence across Israel-Palestine." By Brett Wilkins Petition Demanding Clarence Thomas Recuse From Trump Immunity Case Nears 200K Goal "Corruption on the Supreme Court has gotten out of control, and Justice Thomas is the poster child." By Jake Johnson House Dems, GOP Team Up to Expand Warrantless Spying on Americans "The House has voted to allow the intelligence agencies to violate the civil rights and liberties of Americans for years to come," said the ACLU's senior policy counsel. By Jake Johnson GOP Confirms 2025 Tax Plan If Trump Wins: More Giveaways to the Rich "There are 20 years of data showing trickle-down economics doesn't work, yet today will still be a whole lot of revisionist history and wishful thinking on the singular largest failure of fiscal policy in recent memory," said Rep. Richard Neal. By Brett Wilkins 'Lawless Con Man' Leonard Leo Defies Senate Subpoena Over Supreme Court Gifts "This subpoena is a direct result of Mr. Leo's own actions and choices," said Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin. By Julia Conley Fears of 'Disastrous' War Grow as Iran Weighs Retaliation for Israel Consulate Attack "The U.S. ought to be distancing itself from Israel's illegal attack, but instead the Biden administration is moving to shield Israel from the consequences of its own actions." By Jake Johnson

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■ More News 'Genocidal Actions' Persist in Gaza as Israel Blocks Aid and US Weapons Flow Warnings of 'Patriot Act 2.0' as House Prepares to Vote on Mass Spying Authority Vietnam Sentences Billionaire to Death for White Collar Fraud US Tax Day Campaign Urges Congress to Stop Arming Israel's Genocide in Gaza

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■ Opinion The Case for State-Based Single-Payer Healthcare Throughout U.S. history, states have been the much-needed small laboratories that have succeeded in developing social innovations that eventually went national. By Cris M. Currie,Charlie Swanson,Julie Keller Pease,Mike Huntington Biden Must Walk Back From Netanyahu’s Iran Trap The U.S. ought to be distancing itself from Israel’s illegal attack, but instead the Biden administration is moving to shield Israel from the consequences of its own actions. By Daniel Larison An Urgent Call to Congress: Cease-Fire Now and Avoid a Wider War In a grassroots effort, about 450 individuals from 50 organizations are participating in lobby visits with over 100 congressional offices, at an opportune time as policies on the conflict are in flux. By Kevin Martin The Numbers on Climate Tell Us We’re Not Moving Fast Enough Speeding up the necessary transition to renewable energy requires political mobilization to break the power of the fossil fuel industry. By Bill Mckibben

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