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News & Views | 8/6/19

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A child sits in an area affected by a drought

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
An analysis released Tuesday warns that 17 countries which are collectively home to a quarter of the global population face "extremely high water stress" that is on track to get worse—particularly because of the human-caused climate emergency.

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Bernie Sanders's fight to guarantee healthcare to all Americans through a Medicare for All system is not only a moral necessity—polls show it is also the most compelling healthcare message to mobilize voters."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
While President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have spent the past several years claiming that immigrants and travelers from other countries pose a threat to Americans, the two shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend forced two countries to warn their own citizens of the dangers that lurk within U.S. borders.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"These young men look like they work for you. Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping & choking members of Congress w/ your payroll...?"



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Hundreds of communities and ultimately our democracy will pay the price for this deal. Less journalism and less deep-dive investigative reporting will only lead to less informed citizens."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is leadership. Who will follow? The world is watching," said 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg


Eddie Glaude, a Princeton University professor and MSNBC contributor, said Monday night that while Trump's own racism cannot be ignored, the fact of the matter is that the president is "a manifestation of the ugliness" that pervades the nation. (Photo: Screenshot/MSNBC)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"And if we're gonna get past this, we can't blame it on [Trump]. He's a manifestation of the ugliness that's in us."

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Despite challenges from parts of both the labor and the environmental movements, which its sponsors had undoubtedly hoped would be among its strongest supporters, Markey and Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal resolution has gone a remarkably long way toward putting a genuine discussion of what an effective and just climate policy might look like in the public arena for the first time. (Photo: Emelia Gold)

by Aviva Chomsky
Unions vs. Environmentalists or Unions and Environmentalists?


Yamileth Lopez holds a photo of her deceased friend Javier Amir Rodriguez at a makeshift memorial for victims outside Walmart, near the scene of a mass shooting which left at least 22 people dead, on August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. Rodriguez was a sophomore at Horizon High School and was killed in the shooting. A 21-year-old white male suspect remains in custody in El Paso, which sits along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Phyllis Bennis
It's long past time to say the crisis is a crisis of white supremacy and racist xenophobic violence—rooted in US history but now enabled and encouraged and cheered on by a white supremacist racist xenophobic president


Let us tell the truth about what happened between the US and Russia that brought us to this perilous moment and put the responsibility where it belong. (Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/Getty Images)

by Alice Slater
If the US and Russia can’t settle their differences and honor their promise in the NPT to eliminate their nuclear weapons, the whole world will continue to live under threats of unimaginable catastrophic humanitarian suffering and destruction.


A bank employee counts US currency and Chinese currency notes at a bank on August 6, 2019 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province of China. The onshore exchange rate of the Chinese currency fell beyond 7 per US dollar on August 5. (Photo: Xu Jinbai/VCG via Getty Images)

by Jeffrey D. Sachs
The truth is this: Trump just can't wrap his mind around international trade


Imagine if, from birth, a new generation could experience guaranteed care, with quality not determined by wealth or income, but instead delivered as the human right it should be. (Photo: Sen. Bernie Sanders/Twitter)

by Jarod Facundo
Imagine if a new generation could experience guaranteed care, with quality not determined by wealth or income, but instead delivered as the human right it should be.


Nuclear war and climate change are the two existential threats we face today. (Photo:US Department of Defense)

by Robert Dodge
When our children’s children look back, it will be noted and remembered what side of history we were on when our planet was threatened. The choice is ours.

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