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News & Views | 3/1/20

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Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg greets supporters as he arrives at a town hall campaign event at the Denver Airport Convention Center February 22, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. Nevada held its presidential caucus earlier today. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
As one political observer noted: "He can get a cabinet post in a Biden WH, but not a Sanders WH."

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"From coast to coast we are rising up in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en nation and against colonial violence and land theft," said Vanessa Gray, Anishinaabe Kwe Land Defender from Aamjiwnaang First Nation and one of the organizers of Sunday's demonstration. "It's clear that Canada is a state built on the removal of Indigenous people for resource extraction."

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Demonstration held "in solidarity with every community that has found itself staring down the barrel of a gun for daring to oppose Canada's ongoing colonial project through resource extraction."


Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Democratic Presidential Candidate, speaks to thousands of supporters during a rally at the Boston Common on Saturday, February 29, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"That is revolutionary."


"The last-minute nature of the announcements—and the lowering of AIPAC's own standards to accept pre-recorded videos from the candidates—gives a glimpse into AIPAC's frantic scramble to save face," said Dani Moscovitch of IfNotNow, "and is a sign of the growing weakness of the pro-occupation establishment." (Image: Screenshot/AIPAC)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Jewish-led advocacy group IfNotNow said it was disappointed though not wholly surprised given that both Democrats "have been distinguished by a stated desire to be seen as progressive alongside a demonstrated refusal to stand up to the corrupt establishment."


Presidental hopeful Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg scratches his forehead as he waits to speak to attendees at the Blue NC Celebration, a dinner put on by the North Carolina Democratic Party at the Hilton in University City in Charlotte, North Carolina on February 29, 2020. - Former vice president Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary on Saturday, reviving his flagging campaign and positioning himself as the leading rival to frontrunner Bernie Sanders in the race for the Democratic presiden

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"It's bad enough that an oligarch can buy up airtime; to do so in order to exploit a pandemic for your presidential campaign is disgraceful."


Supporters of "Medicare For All" demonstrate outside of the Charleston Gaillard Center ahead of the Democratic presidential debate on February 25, 2020 in Charleston, South Carolina. South Carolina holds its Democratic presidential primary on Saturday, February 29. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Support was 57 percent to 38 percent in Iowa, 58 percent to 37 percent in New Hampshire, 62 percent to 35 percent in Nevada, and 50 percent to 44 percent in South Carolina."


US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar sign a peace agreement during a ceremony in the Qatari capital Doha on February 29, 2020. - The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban, laying out a timetable for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan within 14 months as it seeks an exit from its longest-ever war. Pompeo called on the Taliban to honour its commitments to sever ties with jihadist groups as Washington s

by Jon Queally, staff writer
The agreement, warned Rep. Barbara Lee, "leaves thousands of troops in Afghanistan and lacks the critical investments in peacebuilding, human-centered development, or governance reform needed to rebuild Afghan society."


US President Donald Trump takes questions during a press conference on the COVID-19, coronavirus, outbreak at the White House in Washington, DC on February 29, 2020. - The number of novel coronavirus cases in the world rose to 85,919, including 2,941 deaths, across 61 countries and territories by 1700 GMT on Saturday, according to a report gathered by AFP from official sources. (Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Why isn't Donald Trump focused on our northern border? I'll give you three guesses but you'll only need one."



by Common Dreams staff
President Donald Trump, under fire for his handling of the situation, was expected to hold a press conference Saturday afternoon to offer an update on the situation.


CNN weekend host Michael Smerconish was criticized Saturday after introducing a segment by comparing the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders to the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo: CNN / Screengrab)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Nice to wake up to discover that CNN is giving a platform to the idea that the left is a disease. That's never led to anything bad happening before."


A passenger wears a face mask on a train in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 26, 2020. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Image)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Warning from frontline health providers comes as Trump accuses those criticizing his handling of the crisis as perpetrating a "new hoax" against him.

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Democratic presidential candidate, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks during the Blue NC Celebration Dinner held at the Hilton Charlotte University Place on February 29, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bloomberg is campaigning before voting starts on Super Tuesday, March 3. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Kenneth Peres
Bloomberg and his political and media allies want to portray him as a non-ideological centrist, a good administrator who will "get it done," and a pragmatic politician who can work with both major parties. Don't believe them.



by Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Eleanor Goldfield, Nick Braña et al.
If there is an effort to steal the nomination from the people, our goal will to be make clear to the Democratic establishment that we know their game and we aren't gonna play this time.


Thousands of Minneapolis cleaning workers walked off their jobs and struck their downtown commercial high-rises. Among their key demands was that their employers take action on climate change. Quite possibly the first union sanctioned strike in the U.S. for climate protection demands. (Photo: SEIU Local 26)

by Jeremy Brecher
The union's focus on climate change demands is part of a growing trend toward "bargaining for the common good."


2020 Democratic hopeful and mega-billionaire Michael Bloomberg and Republican President Donald Trump share a congenial moment in this file photo. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

by Peter Bloom
The fascists and plutocrats are not just coming... they are already here.


Radio personality and CNN weekend host Michael Smerconish came under fire Saturday—along with the network—for "casually" portraying the surging prospects of Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders as comparable to the threat of the infectious coronavirus which continues to spread in the United States and around the world. (Photo: YouTube Screengrab/TRN Show/David Doel)

by Juan Cole
When I was young, people used to rail against plutocracy, and you always thought they were a bit kooky. But now I don't know what else you would call the United States.


Protesters in 2015 rallied outside a Wendy's in Baltimore in support of The Healthy Working Families Act which would require businesses with 10 or more employees to provide up to seven paid sick days a year. (Image: Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

by Elise Gould
Meaningful paid sick leave legislation is incredibly important for low-wage workers and their families and important to reduce the spread of illness. Indeed, lives depend on it.

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