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News & Views | 1/28/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Human rights advocates condemned U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "annexation plan" for large swaths of Palestinian territory on Tuesday, as the two leaders presented what they called a "peace deal" for Israel and Palestine.

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Camp Fire

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Environmental advocacy groups issued mixed responses Tuesday after Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee released the legislative text of a draft bill for a national climate plan, with critics charging that the proposal isn't ambitious enough to address the planetary crisis.


Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders discusses health care costs at an ice cream social in Raymond, New Hampshire hosted by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream. (Photo: Preston Ehrler/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Running away from the pack, Sanders leads former vice president by 15 points and holds double-digit lead over all his Democratic rivals in the key early voting state.


Sunrise Movement activists at the San Diego climate strike in 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Whether we can pull it off is up to you and me."


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled his long-awaited "peace deal" for the Israel-Palestine conflict, Sen. Bernie Sanders condemned the proposal as "unacceptable" and called for an end to Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump is trying to use the trial to do what Ukraine wouldn't—destroy his political rivals."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
New report urges next president and Congress to reinstate the U.S. crude oil export ban, a move that could slash carbon emissions by 181 million tons of CO2-equivalent each year.


The epicenter of the quake was on the seafloor between Jamaica and Cuba.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
A tsunami warning was issued earlier but the danger has passed.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"That was very impressive, Mike," the president said to applause during a press conference in the White House.


Demonstrators hold signs

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Ahead of a public comment period ending Friday, dozens of U.S. senators came together Tuesday in a letter opposing a Trump administration proposal that could cut off hundreds of thousands of people from an estimated $2.6 billion in Social Security disability benefits over a decade.


An F-15E Strike Eagle from Bagram Air Base deploys flares over Afghanistan Nov. 12, 2008.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Who are we bombing? Why? What will it yield but more war?"

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Each of those 394 votes felt hard won indeed. (Photo: Facebook)

by Frida Berrigan
Running for office in the age of Donald Trump and climate change.


The story contained in the Luanda Leaks is one that exposes the systematic roots of a global crisis and the role of the "wealth defense industry"—the tax lawyers, accountants, consultants, and wealth managers that facilitate and enable this looting process worldwide. (Image: ICIJ/Marwen Ben Mustapha – Inkyfada)

by Chuck Collins
Why we should focus on the enablers exposed in the Angola scandal: Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, and PwC


Regardless of uncertainties regarding Iran's actions in the 1980s, the U.S.’s campaign against Iran has violated the most critical lessons U.S. and UN officials claimed to have learned from the debacle in Iraq. (Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

by Nicolas J S Davies
This has led to an illegal regime of brutal sanctions, under which thousands of children are dying from preventable diseases and malnutrition, and to threats of another illegal U.S. war that would engulf the Middle East and the world in even greater chaos than the one the CIA engineered against...


Its 2020 and the time is up on providing cover for Big Oil, Gas, and Coal. (Photo: Union of Concerned Scientists)

by Hannah McKinnon
Simply put, there is no room for new fossil fuel production in a safer climate future.


Netanyahu and Trump at the White House, Jan. 27, 2020. (Photo: Screenshot)

by Yumna Patel
It is largely understood that the deal will be heavily pro-Israel.


Insulin was discovered almost 100 years ago, saving the lives of many people with diabetes. Its soaring costs in recent years has brought outcries from patients and politicians. (Photo: John Fredricks/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Faisal Chaudhry
Ordinary people around the world will increasingly find themselves in the same boat when it comes to accessing the medicines they need.

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