Articles from September 2020

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'Inhumane': US Border Officials Deny Request by Doctors to Administer Free Flu Vaccine to Detained Migrants

A group of doctors seeking to vaccinate migrants detained by President Donald Trump’s Customs and Border Patrol were denied at the gates of the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station in San Ysidro, San Diego Monday. “Refusing…

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'Ideology Trumping Science': Independent Advisory Board Says Trump EPA Is Ignoring Scientific Evidence as It Shreds Regulations

A federal panel of independent scientific experts says the EPA has flouted the panel’s guidance in its efforts to roll back a number of Obama-era regulations, resulting in an agency push that will affect public…

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Glenn Greenwald and David Miranda on Bolsonaro's Far-Right Movement in Brazil: 'We Intend to Fight This Repression, Not Flee From It'

In an op-ed published Wednesday by the Guardian, American journalist Glenn Greenwald and Brazilian Congressman David Miranda—who are married and live with their two children in Rio de Janeiro—vowed to continue fighting against the movement…

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We Risk Living in an 'Empty World' If Assault on Nature Not Stopped, Warns UN Biodiversity Chief

If humanity doesn’t take action now, we will be left to survive on an “empty world.” That’s the warning from new United Nations biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema.  In an interview with the Guardian Monday, Mrema…

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