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NYT’s Africa: A Place of Failure and No Leadership

Siyanda Mohutsiwa FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
The New York Times, by portraying Africa as a place of failure and no leadership, participates in the White Savior Industrial complex and the NGO pyramid scheme in keeping the Global North in position of dominance over their “former colonies."

The Rich Breathe Easier Than the Poor

Meagan Day Convergence
A new study shows that disparities in pulmonary health between the rich and poor have been widening for six decades, setting the stage for vastly unequal, devastating outcomes during the pandemic.

A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule

Nicolas JS Davies CounterPunch
Around the world, we are witnessing what can happen when people rise up and act collectively for the common good. That is how we will solve the serious problems we face, from the COVID pandemic to the climate crisis to the danger of nuclear war.

Don’t Let the Rich Avoid Taxes

Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo The Progressive
A progressive tax system is one of the few tools we can deploy to slow and reverse the growth of billionaire power.

So What The Hell Do We Do Now? (Joe Manchin Edition)

Ezra Levin, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, Indivisible Indivisible
This democracy fight is coming to a head now, which means things are getting ugly. Manchin doesn’t want to move forward without GOP support, but he also doesn’t want to be squeezed, so he wrote his op-ed trying to head off a showdown...
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