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News & Views | 3/12/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Now is the time to come together with love and compassion for all, including the most vulnerable people in our society."

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Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) shows CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield the total cost of a coronavirus test.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We live in a world where 33% of Americans put off medical treatment last year, and we have $1,133 expense just for testing for the coronavirus."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
As Democratic leaders released a plan to provide economic relief to people affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., progressives pushed to provide Americans with bold, ambitious solutions as the first layoffs resulting from the outbreak were reported.


youth leaders outside DNC

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Ahead of Sunday's Democratic presidential primary debate between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, a coalition of youth advocacy organizations on Thursday issued a pair of demands pressuring the Democratic National Committee and moderators to prioritize key progressive issues that haven't received much attention at past debates.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A progressive congressional candidate's decision on Thursday to stop in-person canvassing on her campaign due to the coronavirus outbreak shed light on the choices many working Americans are being faced with as lawmakers scramble to pass public health and economic relief measures.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Tom Cotton is still using this as a way to build support for a war against China."


President Donald J. Trump delivers a television national address on the coronavirus pandemic from the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday, March 11, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent, and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Yet again, U.S. and Iranian-backed forces appear to be exchanging fire in Iraq, despite the American people's desires to avoid yet another war of choice in the Middle East."


Pro-choice supporters and staff of Planned Parenthood hold a rally

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"No one should be forced out of their home state just to access healthcare. What's happening in Missouri, and in other states down to one abortion provider, is unacceptable."


Five financial firms are funding the oil extraction business in the Amazon rainforest despite promising to act to mitigate the climate crisis.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Five of the world's most powerful financial institutions are actively contributing to climate change by providing debt and equity financing for crude oil extraction projects in the Amazon."


U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
American whistleblower Chelsea Manning's legal team revealed late Wednesday that she is recovering in the hospital after attempting to take her own life while jailed for the vast majority of the past year in what one United Nations expert has denounced as "an open-ended, progressively severe coercive measure amounting to torture."

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A Bernie foreign policy would make the world a far better place. (Photo: Bernie Sanders/Facebook)

by Steve Striffler, Thomas J. Adams
Sanders represents a foreign policy where the US does not lead by throwing around its military and economic might to the misfortune of Americans and others across the globe, but works in collaboration to create a more democratic and just world.


What happens when serious trouble builds requiring something other than the ability of central banks to combat it with more cheap money? The answer could be a massive, even historic, stock market crash. (Photo: Scott Beale on Flickr)

by Nomi Prins
A global Dr. Frankenstein at work.


We live in a dangerous and paradoxical world. (Photo: Banaras Khan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
If the possibility of a global pandemic is real, how could anyone question the urgency of government investment in the development of a vaccine and then making it universally available?


By law, Native American tribes are sovereign and have the right to government-to-government consultation before federal agencies make major decisions that impact tribal members. (Photo: SOPA Images/Getty Images)

by Raúl M. Grijalva
Native American history is often misrepresented as something alien to real American culture. In fact, it’s profoundly central to American culture, and to the history of the land we all now call home.


Stephen Miller’s evil fingerprints were all over Trump’s vile address to the nation on Wednesday evening. It’s not a "foreign virus"—it’s a human virus. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Zoltán Grossman
Community resilience that emerges in response to the coronavirus crisis may become models to overcome the innate crisis of social isolation under capitalism.


A view of the sculpture—Good Defeats Evi—on the UN Headquarters grounds, presented to the UN by the Soviet Union on the occasion of the Organization’s 45th anniversary. (Photo: UN Photo/Manuel Elias)

by Alice Slater
Rather than addressing the promising path forward provided by the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to finally ban the bomb, the U.S. launched a new initiative.

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