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September 22, 2021

CITIZENS’ CORNER: [First Hand Account] Covid Pass in Lithuania and throughout Europe: How recent vaccine mandate laws have upended my family’s life

18-Sep-21 [Time to read: 16 min] I want to share the situation which my family and I are now facing because of Covid Pass restrictions. We live in the small European country of Lithuania. In the last few months, strict Covid Pass restrictions have been introduced which represent a fundamental …

September 22, 2021

CITIZENS’ CORNER: [OPINION]-Justice Department Fights Back Against Texas Anti-Abortion Law

Truthout The Supreme Court’s greenlighting of the most draconian anti-abortion law in the country has had the right wing’s “desired effect of deterring abortion providers from offering virtually any abortions” in Texas since September 1, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). S.B. 8 prohibits abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before …

September 21, 2021

“FIVE FREEDOM’S”: Virginia Department of Health Announces Launch of QR Codes to Verify COVID-19 Vaccination Status – QR codes are secure and private for users, easy for businesses

September 21, 2021

“CITIZENS’ CORNER”: [OPINION] Samuel Moyn’s Unprincipled Attack on Human Rights Giant Michael Ratner Is Shameful

JURIST Samuel Moyn’s vicious and unprincipled attack on Michael Ratner, one of the finest human rights attorneys of our time, was published in the New York Review of Books (NYRB) on September 1. Moyn singles out Ratner as a whipping boy to support his own bizarre theory that punishing war crimes prolongs war by making …

September 21, 2021

“FIVE FREEDOM’S”: S.D State Representative Steve Haugaard Discusses The Economic Impacts of Vaccine Mandates

In this episode of Daily Clout, Associate Editor Breeauna Sagdal interviews South Dakota State Representative Steve Haugaard regarding the staffing deficits in the healthcare industry, and the subsequent economic impacts as healthcare professionals choose to leave their career, rather than receive the Covid vaccine–what South Dakota lawmakers are trying to …

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