This week Polina Vasiliev and I spoke to Mickey Huff, Diablo Valley College history and media studies professor, Director of Project Censored, and host of Pacifica Radio’s Project Censored Show,...
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America’s billionaires would owe a total of about $114 billion in wealth tax for 2020 if the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act introduced...
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The dominant view of China in both Washington and in American public opinion is that the United States faces an increasingly ruthless Chinese leadership, requiring that US...
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The American Civil Liberties Union, along with over 150 civil rights organizations — including The National Urban League, National Disability Rights Network, and community-...
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This morning, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the government's appeal of a preliminary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security public charge...
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Congressmember Karen Bass (D-CA), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Global Human rights, re-introduced the Represent America...
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As the Biden administration begins dismantling Trump's anti-immigrant legacy and contemplates reforms to US immigration policy, it will have to take the crucial...
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Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) joined economists and advocates to introduce a historic resolution calling for a federal job guarantee for all Americans.
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Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks regarding the issue of Reparations during a Subcommittee on the...
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The Biden-Harris Administration announced that it will enforce the Fair Housing Act in cases of housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties will hold a hearing on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation...
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About 1,000 people who hail from Ethiopia’s Tigray region braved the New York chilly temperature to converge on the United...
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Today, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following response to a Congressional Budget Office study on the budgetary impacts of the Raise...
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Friday, Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, issued the following statement regarding the African Union:
“I am...
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Monday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13) reintroduced the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act, a...
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