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News & Views | 8/5/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's these questions that you know the answers to. I mean, connect the dots about what he's doing in this country. He's not tolerating racism, he's promoting racism."

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arrested protesters

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jewish activists were arrested Monday for protesting at the Los Angeles office of the GEO Group, a private prison company that runs federal migrant detention facilities decried by critics as "concentration camps."  


Anti-nuclear weapons activists from Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament stage a die-in protest outside Westminster Abbey on May 3, 2019 in London.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The collapse of the INF Treaty last Friday opens up a Pandora's Box of dangerous possibilities."


Traders work after the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on August 5, 2019 in New York City.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"If this was an all out currency war—the U.S. would hands down lose."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"However you slice it, the rich have been getting richer. Lots richer."


President Donald Trump makes remarks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House as Vice President Mike Pence looks on August 5, 2019 in Washington, D.C. President Trump delivered remarks on the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
In White House speech, president condemns racism, but not his own



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Our rebellion must happen to disrupt the business as usual of a system that is accelerating the existential threat."

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U.S. President Donald Trump, beneath a portrait of populist President Andrew Jackson, speaks before the swearing-in of Rex Tillerson as 69th secretary of state in the Oval Office of the White House on February 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. Tillerson was confirmed by the Senate earlier in the day in a 56-43 vote. (Photo: Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
Like his presidential hero Andrew Jackson, who owned enslaved people and bragged about murdering Native American women and children, Trump speaks to an exclusively white audience


Whatever the spin, whether of that revolving door or of the defense industry’s publicists, the bottom line couldn’t be clearer: if job creation is your metric of choice, Pentagon contractors are a bad taxpayer investment. (Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force/Brad Fallin)

by Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson
The military-industrial jobs scam


Authorities walk among evidence markers at the scene of a mass shooting, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio. (Photo: John Minchillo/AP Photo)

by Adele M. Stan
The president of the United States stokes the right-wing disinformation machine.


Harris’ plan overestimates the government’s ability to keep for-profit health insurance companies from driving up health care spending and denying people needed care. (Photo: Getty Images)

by Diane Archer, Wendell Potter
Like other Democratic presidential candidates who propose a "public option," she never tells us what her plan will cost or why for-profit insurers will all of a sudden deliver good affordable health care. There’s a reason.


Protesters hold a rally against gun violence outside of New York Public Library in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Denton, Ohio on August 4, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
Another day, another massacre—this time two, in just 13 hours.


We still have time to try and avert the scale of the disaster, but we must respond as we would in an emergency. (Photo: Martyn Aim/Getty Images)

by Joëlle Gergis
The latest science is alarming, even for climate scientists

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