_____ (2022-03-18). Progressives Hand Biden List Of 55 Executive Actions. popularresistance.org The CPC's new list of executive order recommendations is broad in scope, aiming to address a variety of pressing issues including sky-high drug prices, the worsening climate emergency, the coronavirus pandemic, mounting student loan debt, and a rigged tax system—priorities that Biden vowed to tackle on the campaign trail in 2020. | While Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the CPC chair, has said she would prefer ambitious legislation such as the Build Back Better package to more limited executive orders, that bill is dead in the Senate due to opposition from Republicans and corporate-backed Democrats such as S…

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2022-03-18). Shireen Al-Adeimi on Yemen, David Arkush on Fed Climate Veto. fair.org Sanaa, Yemen (cc photo: Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency) | This week on CounterSpin: It's worth our while to think about why everyone we know is talking about Ukraine and Russia's unlawful incursion—and equally worthwhile to ask why the same principles of concern don't seem to apply in other cases. Those feelings don't have to fight. But to hear Yemen is not a rhetorical device. It's a country of human beings in c…

Lina Tran (2022-03-18). First a hurricane, now wildfire: Climate disasters are colliding in Florida. peoplesworld.org All week, a trio of wildfires has blazed through more than 34,000 acres in the Florida Panhandle, gorging on downed trees that Hurricane Michael left in its wake more than three years ago. The fires have forced more than 1,100 people from their homes. The three wildfires, collectively called the Chipola Complex, represent a collision …

W. T. Whitney, Jr. (2022-03-18). Climate research strike? Linking up environmental science with the 'science of society'. mronline.org Hundreds of IPCC scientists provide the United Nations periodically with reports on adverse impacts of climate change. The most recent report, issued in February, details rising seas, terrible droughts, atypical weather events, thawing permafrost, dying forests, and massive displacement of populations.

ecns.cn (2022-03-18). CDC: U.S. wastewater samples show rise in coronavirus. ecns.cn Samples from U.S. wastewater sites have shown an increase in the coronavirus this month in a third of locations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed, suggesting that cases in key cities including New York are rising.