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Israel's Pager Bombings Are Blatant Effort to Stoke Regional War
WEB10 hours ago · Sep 20, 2024 Informed Comment. Israel’s massive cyber-attack on Lebanon on 17 and 18 September, with the near-simultaneous explosion of 3,000-4,000 pagers and walkie-talkies, has killed a few dozen Hezbollah members and many civilians, including some children and health workers, has blinded and maimed hundreds of people and wounded many ...
US Healthcare Failures Prove 'We Need' Medicare for All, Says …
WEB9 hours ago · Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on Thursday night responded to a new analysis exposing the failures of the for-profit U.S. healthcare system by renewing her call for Medicare for All.. Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are the lead sponsors of the Medicare for All Act.When they reintroduced the bill last year, they highlighted research showing that it could save 68,000 lives and ...
Fed 'Waited Too Long' But Finally Cut Interest Rates
WEB2 days ago · Economists and working-class people across the United States on Wednesday welcomed the Federal Reserve's decision to cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point as an incredibly overdue and necessary move.. In line with signals from Fed Chair Jerome Powell's speech last month, the Federal Open Market Committee lowered the federal funds rate by half a percentage point to 4.74-5% ...
CFTC Moves to Set Voluntary Carbon Market Standards
WEB7 hours ago · The voluntary carbon market is shrinking rapidly, with a market cap of less than $1 billion today. “The CFTC is stuck between a rock and a hard place: a small volume of carbon offsets derivatives are being traded, and powerful interests are seeking to expand that market. The guardrails CFTC set today have the potential to keep the lowest ...
New Report Lays Out How US Can Address Its 'Fair Share' of the …
WEB3 days ago · The U.S.' historic emissions are so large that the U.S. cannot mitigate enough emissions domestically to fulfill its "fair share" of responsibility for the climate crisis. It must also provide Global South countries annually with $106 billion in mitigation funding and $340 billion worth of adaptation and loss and damage funding by 2030.
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WEBChicago’s school year kicked off amid a looming budget crisis that jeopardizes stability for both students and teachers. At the heart of the issue is a silent killer of public education: predatory bank loans, particularly from JPMorgan Chase. During a bargaining session with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), I urged Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to stop allowing big banks to hold Chicago ...
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