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Democratic control of Congress could lead to quick action on additional stimulus aid.

The Capitol Riot Is Inspiring Far-Right Groups Around the World The storming of Congress could have scary global consequences if the U.S. doesn’t act quickly to hold rioters accountable. Samuel Corum/Getty Images Watching armed neo-Nazis and other extremists violently storm the Capitol building on Wednesday, my first thoughts weren’t of reaction in Washington D.C. Instead, I wondered who was watching in Belgrade, Bratislava, and Budapest. Many, in the past few days, have compared the sacki...

Biden assembling new stimulus plan with checks, unemployment aid Jeff Stein, Erica Werner and Mike DeBonis, The Washington Post Jan. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail President-elect Joe Biden visits Atlanta to show his support for the Democratic candidates for Senate.Washington Post photo by Demetrius Freeman. WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden said Friday he is assembling a multitrillion-dollar relief package that would boost stimulus payments for Americans to $2,000, extend unemployment insu...

January 7, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Socialist Project — The death of Leo Panitch has made the world a darker place. His writings have carried us through some of the most difficult periods in the history of the socialist left, as wave after wave of the neoliberal onslaught broke workers’ organizations, serving up one defeat after the next. Leo’s work sustained so many of us during these years, pushing us on and pointing the way through ...

The president-elect said the violence “borders on sedition” and made clear he viewed President Trump as responsible for inciting his supporters with baseless claims the election was stolen.

The past few years have been a mixed bag for climate. U.S. emissions declined to their lowest level in three decades this year, but these reductions came at an incredible cost as the economy shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic.  The challenge now is to make these emissions cuts sustainable for years to come while getting millions of Americans back to work. We dig into a new analysis on how to put the U.S. on a path to deep decarbonization and economic growth on this episode of Political C...

Biden set to supercharge clean energy push with $40B stash POLITICO 1/1/2021 By Zack Colman © AP Photo/Andrew Harnik President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. Twelve years ago, the Department of Energy was so central to the incoming Obama administration’s stimulus plans that DOE staffers were among the first through the doors at the transition headquarters, helping the Secret Service take the plastic wrap off tables...

Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, R-Ga., are engaging in political gymnastics to try to stay aligned with both their party's Senate leadership and the White House amid an intra-GOP battle over whether to send $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, a former Senate aide said Wednesday.

mped thousands of tons of radioactive waste into ocean  Tampa Bay Times,  Times Staff Writer Dec. 24, 2013 They asked the dying Pasco County man about his Navy service a half-century before. He kept talking about the steel barrels. They haunted him, sea monsters plaguing an old sailor.”We turned off all the lights,” George Albernaz testified at a 2005 Department of Veterans Affairs hearing, “and … pretend that we were broken down and … we would take these barrels and having only st...