“Increasing deaths for six weeks in a row is not the situation we should be in right now,” said WHO epidemiologist Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove.
“It’s nothing short of pandemic profiteering for Pfizer to make a killing while its vaccines have been withheld from so many.”
“You know what every country on this graph except for the USA has?” asked one observer, pointing to a new analysis of U.S. coronavirus deaths. “Universal healthcare.”
On the eve of a congressional hearing on corporate price hikes, a new analysis shows that “companies are hiding behind the pandemic and supply chain disruptions as an excuse to gouge consumers.”
“How many more Americans have to die and suffer before Congress has the guts to end this greed?”
“The Biden administration must end new leasing and phase out existing drilling,” said one advocate. “Anything less would be a gross failure of climate leadership.”
Anti-war commentators warned of an “exceedingly dangerous quagmire” in Ukraine if the U.S. ramps up its military presence in the region.
New government statistics show union membership declined by 241,000 workers last year
“Biden can’t be the climate leader he claims to be when he is actively conducting major lease sales and lobbying oil states to produce more fossil fuels,” said the youth-led Sunrise Movement
“We are not in this for a moment, but for a movement,” said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. “Our deadline is victory.”
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