No U.S. Troops in Haiti: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Military Mission Would Not Help Country

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• Taking On Bigots, Yahoos and Perpetrators Of All Kinds
  Talk about flipping the script. Within days, in an historic act of grace, old Joe did the "right and honorable thing" and handed the reins to Kamala, "in every possible way (the) anti-Trump," who ran with them. In their glorious wake, they left a blindsided, ill-equipped GOP sputtering about coups and conspiracies, a MAGA base […]
• Netanyahu's Speech Reveals the Demise of the Bipartisan Consensus on Israel
  Stefanie Fox, Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace: “This will go down in history as a moment of shame for the American people: standing ovations for the genocidal lies of a fascist leader who is using US weapons to commit crimes against humanity against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Netanyahu’s speech was as racist as […]
• Connecticut Prevails Over Exxon's Attempt to Escape Climate Deception Lawsuit
  Connecticut scored a major victory yesterday in its lawsuit seeking to hold ExxonMobil accountable for “an ongoing, systematic campaign of lies and deception” about the role of the company’s fossil fuel products in causing climate change, after a state court judge denied Exxon’s motion to dismiss the case. The lawsuit, filed by Connecticut Attorney General […]
• Stand Up America Applauds Senate Advancing Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading
  Stand Up America’s Managing Director of Policy and Political Affairs, Brett Edkins, issued the following statement after the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs advanced the ETHICS Act with bipartisan support. The ETHICS Act bans members of Congress, and their spouses and dependents, from owning or trading stocks. “The bipartisan legislative accomplishments of […]
• New Report Details Massive Impact of Methane Emissions on Near-Term Climate Picture
  A new report from the national advocacy group Food & Water Watch presents a stark picture of the immense amount of climate-killing methane emissions emanating from the top two sources of such pollution: fossil fuel fracking and corporate factory farming. While carbon dioxide still remains a larger source of greenhouse gas emissions, methane has a […]
• Groundwork's Lindsay Owens on FTC Pricing Investigation
  Today, the Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into surveillance pricing, ordering information from eight companies on the practice in a 5-0 vote. The orders were sent to Mastercard, Revionics, Bloomreach, JPMorgan Chase, Task Software, PROS, Accenture, and McKinsey & Co. Groundwork’s Executive Director Lindsay Owens applauded the action in the following statement: “Surveillance pricing […]