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News & Views | 2/17/20

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Over 150 middle and high school students demonstrated at the U.S. Capitol building Monday to urge senators to back the Green New Deal. (Photo credit: Sunrise Movement)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Over 150 middle- and high-schoolers gathered to demand senators "stand up or step aside" on the climate crisis.

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Blaine Henderson, right, reaches to open a mailbox as he and his friend Jonah Valdez, both 12, play in the floodwaters of the Pearl River in northeast Jackson, Mississippi Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
More rain is expected through Tuesday, leading officials to sound the alarm.


Brad Rose looks at rows of soybean plants that show signs of having been affected by Dicamba use on Aug 9, 2017

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This verdict is just the tip of the iceberg."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Since moving to America, I don't think I've met anyone who doesn't have at least one insurance industry horror story."


Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is taking aim at Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Speaking for myself, I'd rather be insulted on Twitter by random, anonymous users (something that has happened often from non-Sanders-supporters) than subjected to stop-and-frisk, workplace harassment, indiscriminate Israeli bombing, mass surveillance, and other Bloomberg policies."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is a campaign by the working class, of the working class, and for the working class," Sanders told the crowd in Denver.


House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speak at a press conference in Washington, D.C.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"House Dems did literally the narrowest possible impeachment they could. The overwhelming majority of Trump's corruption remains uninvestigated."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Those who continue to sell arms to the warring parties must realize that by supplying weapons for this war, they contribute to making atrocities like today's all too common."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The U.S. election system "ignores the vote of the majority of people," said Abbas Mousavi, spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry.


Attorney General William Barr speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a press conference the White House on July 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Common Dreams staff
' Barr’s actions in doing the President’s personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words'


Michael Bloomberg's millions kept Neera Tanden's group, the Center for American Progress, from publishing reports critical of Bloomberg's NYPD surveillance of Muslim communities.

by Common Dreams staff
It was “disconcerting” to be asked to remove the chapter “because of how it was going to be perceived by Mayor Bloomberg.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu greets Bloomberg when the former mayor flew to Israel in July 2014 to support Israel's assault on Gaza and oppose the FAA decision to suspend domestic flights to the country.

by Michael Arria
Bloomberg: "Unfortunately, if there are innocents getting killed at the same time it’s not Israel’s fault."


As we wait to fix our broken system, thousands of people are denied access to healthcare or are crushed by medical debt. (Photo: Michael Fleshman/flickr/cc)

by Rohit Anand
My parents had to decide between my sister’s health or their financial security.


“The only way to make them care is to make them pay.” (Photo: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images)

by Johnathan Hettinger
After three weeks of arguments, the jury awarded the peach-farmer plaintiff $15 million in damages and $250 million in punitive damages against the chemical companies.


Buttigieg changes positions in response to pressure from Wall street and big pharmaceuticals. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Kenneth Peres
Given his history, it is no surprise that Wall Street, Big Tech, Big Pharma, health insurers, real estate developers and private equity have decided to invest millions of dollars into Buttigieg’s campaign.


Honduran migrants walk near Esquipulas, Chiquimula departament, Guatemala, on January 16, 2020, after crossing the border in Agua Caliente from Honduras on their way to the United States. (Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

by Meghan Krausch
Tracing U.S. complicity in the ongoing human rights crisis in Honduras.


With very few exceptions, the loudest voices to be heard from mass media are coming from individuals with wealth far above the financial vicinity of average Americans. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
In American politics, hell hath no fury like corporate power scorned.

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