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News & Views | 2/13/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The nation should not be at war without a vote of Congress," said Sen. Tim Kaine, the measure's lead sponsor.

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The digital rights group Fight for the Future released a sign-on letter Thursday to stop the use of surveillance which it says violates students' and faculty's civil liberties.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Stop and frisk was an unconstitutional, devastating practice for the entire city."


Two medical personnel work in the patients' ward in Jinyintan Hospital

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the world's leading health experts wrapped up a two-day forum about the coronavirus at the World Health Organization's Geneva headquarters Wednesday, new figures out of China over the past 24 hours revealed that the respiratory illness has now infected more than 60,000 people globally.


Adelie Penguins on Seymour Island

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday announced that last month was the hottest January ever recorded, the Guardian reported that Brazilian scientists logged a new record-breaking temperature of 20.75°C, or 69.35°F, at Seymour Island in Antarctica on Feb. 9.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I mean, my goodness, Republicans understand we all have to bow down to our supreme leader, who is the president of the United States, and not criticize him."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The union representing the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team waded into the rift between the national women's team and the U.S. Soccer Federation over equal pay Wednesday, demanding that the federation end its "false narrative" over the female players' compensation.


Republican strategist Tim Miller is behind an effort to defeat the 2020 Democratic presidential bid of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Forty years of dancing with the devil and all of a sudden centrist GOP voters want to switch sides so they can poison the Democratic Party too? Thanks, no thanks."


Officials from the 68th caucus precinct overlook the results of the first referendum count during a caucus event on February 3, 2020 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The 2020 election cycle could not only mark the end of the Iowa caucuses, but all caucuses nationwide."


UBCIC leaders at the BC legislature

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Protests across Canada continued Wednesday in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en First Nation hereditary chiefs and land defenders fighting against a fracked gas pipeline that would cut through their unceded territory in northern British Columbia.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"When Steve Mnuchin or any other politician says that a 'reduction in the rate of increase' is different than a benefit cut, they are shamelessly lying."

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The U.S. war machine demonstrated total disdain for its upstart rival, and unleashed an illegal war based on lies that has now raged on through many phases of violence and chaos for 17 years. (Photo: via EuroYankee)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies
The peace movement’s small victories demonstrate that we have more power to challenge U.S. militarism than most Americans realize.


The real hope represented by Bernie Sanders’ campaign is that he can pull together these sharply separated populations—in the process shifting the focus to the elite forces whose propaganda has kept them apart. (Photo: Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images)

by Ted Morgan
This could represent the beginning of a real healing of America’s tragic history around race and class.


The establishment is trying to push the party’s candidates to surrender their progressive ideals and just tinker around the edges of actual change. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Jim Hightower
Moderates consistently warn that progressive ideas can't win "the middle." But just look at the polls.


At 18-plus years or, if you prefer to combine Washington’s two Afghan wars, 28-plus years, we’re talking about the longest American war in history. (Photo: U.S. Army/flickr/cc)

by Tom Engelhardt
Making sense of the age of carnage.


Prime Minister Netanyahu has recently, and probably accurately from his perspective, called Donald Trump “the best friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.”(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

by Danny Sjursen
The only other nations supporting the Trump and Netanyahu plan are dictatorial and/or monarchical Arab client states like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates.


Corporate media’s propagandistic coverage is most apparent when they consistently refuse to hold the US government accountable to its own standards for what constitutes “state sponsors of terrorism.” (Photo: New York Times Screenshot)

by Joshua Cho
There’s a much stronger case that the US rather than Iran is actually the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism.

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