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News & Views | 2/10/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"What kind of unbelievable moral framework allowed this White House to propose $182 billion in cuts to nutrition assistance from needy families, when nearly one in seven households with children are food insecure?"

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a Town Hall at the Hanover Inn Dartmouth on February 09, 2020 in Hanover, New Hampshire.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This poll reflects a fundamentally different race than pre-Iowa, one in which Bernie Sanders is the clear front-runner."


ground beetle on a plant

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
New papers detail severe threats facing insects, how their plight is intertwined with humanity's, and the available solutions to address the crisis.


sea level rise scenarios

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A new map series released Monday by a European Union agency shows how the human-caused climate crisis could impact certain portions of Europe in the future, underscoring the importance of the international community working together to cut planet-heating emissions.


Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner speaks before Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders takes the stage for a town hall discussion about health care on July 25, 2019 in Los Angeles.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Does being 'practical' mean that we don't say to the American people that you deserve better than what you are getting?"



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The name of the game here is electorate expansion," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, "and bringing people out to vote that the normal political establishment counts on not turning out."


Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a series of tweets about the coronavirus on Sunday, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged the international community to develop containment strategies and warned that "we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This budget is Trump's pledge that as long as he stays in office, slashing Social Security, Medicaid, and whatever's left of SNAP will remain a White House priority."


Giselle Hart of Rights and Democracy New Hampshire and Marcela Mulholland of the Sunrise Movement at UNH campus Monday.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We've never, ever seen this kind of organization and mobilization before," said one volunteer.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The Senate Minority Leader warned of a "dangerous, growing pattern of retaliation against those who report wrongdoing only to find themselves targeted by the president and subject to his wrath and vindictiveness."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Indigenous rights supporters held solidarity actions across Canada over the weekend as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police continued their raids on Wet'suwet'en land in British Columbia.

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Unbeknownst to most Americans, the Finnmark region of Norway and adjacent Russian territory have become one of the most likely battlegrounds for the first use of nuclear weapons in any future NATO-Russian conflict. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Michael Klare
U.S. troops head for the far north.


An aerial view of homes destroyed by the Camp Fire on February 11, 2019 in Paradise, California. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Pat LaMarche
It's time for our country to focus on massive, extreme events—fueled by climate change—that result in the instantaneous homelessness of tens of thousands of people.


Jane Fonda was fabulous. She took the makeshift stage in her red coat and hat and launched into a brilliant, clear speech calling upon California, and the rest of the nation and the world, to stop all new oil wells. (Photo: Rev. John Dear)

by Rev. John Dear
Catastrophic climate change is not coming in fifty or one hundred years. It’s upon us now.


US Presidential Candidate and former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at a Town Hall event in Keene, New Hampshire. - US Presidential Candidates are in the state for the upcoming 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary who will take place on February 11, 2020. (Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
So much for freedom of speech and open election discourse in public places—even in the "Live Free or Die" state of New Hampshire.


View from Dresden city hall after the February 13-15, 1945 Allied bombing. (Photo: Deutsch Fotohek/Wikimedia Commons)

by Brett Wilkins
The Dresden bombing shocked the world’s conscience.


Assange would face a politicized show trial in the United States if he were extradited to face 17 charges under the Espionage Act for his role in publishing classified military and diplomatic cables, documents and videos that exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Photo: Mr. Fish / Truthdig)

by Chris Hedges
The publication of classified documents is not yet a crime in the United States. If Assange is extradited and convicted, it will become one.

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