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News & Views | 4/17/20

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A volunteer with Forgotten Harvest loads food into a vehicle at a mobile pantry April 14, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
U.S. food pantries have faced unprecedented demand while billions of dollars in produce has gone to waste due to supply chain disruptions from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—conditions that are renewing calls for reforms to make the nation's food systems more localized, resilient, and sustainable.

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The beach at Jacksonville.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Why aren't any elected officials speaking out against this?"


Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian Friday, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva joined a chorus of people across the globe who have sharply criticized his country's current far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, in recent months for irresponsibly handling the coronavirus pandemic.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"In 2008, we bailed out Wall Street. This time, it's time to bail out the American people who are suffering."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The United States is the richest country in the history of humanity. There's absolutely no reason why our frontline healthcare workers shouldn't have access to PPE."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I lack words to describe how stupid and dangerous this is."


U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris speaks before a town hall at Holman United Methodist Church on April 21, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Americans are in dire need of money to pay their rent and put food on the table—this is absurd."


A sign on a farm trailer reading "Food grows where water flows" hangs over dry, cracked mud at the edge of a farm April 16, 2009 near Buttonwillow, California. (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say that we're on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts."


President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
" The smoking gun has arrived."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We now need Congress to tell Mnuchin, 'There will be no incentive package that you want without the Post Office in it.'"


"We have a chance to not only defeat this pandemic, but to transform the way we nurture and invest in the young generation," a new United Nations report reads. (Photo: Aulia Erlangga/Flickr/cc)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
World governments must work together to keep the coronavirus pandemic from evolving into "a broader child-rights crisis," the United Nations said Thursday.

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Daniel Berrigan at Cornell University circa 1970 in Ithaca, New York. (Photo: PL Gould/IMAGES/Getty Images)

by Brian Terrell
The pandemic has brought home what the threats of global destruction by climate change and nuclear war should have long ago—that the promises of normalcy will never deliver in the end.


One of the reasons the Trump administration might be so unhappy with the WHO is that it works with ALL countries, including those that are not allies of the United States. (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

by Ariel Gold
COVID-19 has shown just how deeply interconnected people are. Now is precisely the time to be increasing global cooperation, not cutting funding to the WHO.


Even before the coronavirus crisis upended our economy and sent millions all at once into unemployment, student loan debt threatened the economic security of every borrower.(Photo: YouTube/screenshot)

by Remington A. Gregg
Forty-five million Americans hold a whopping $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. Eight million of those individuals have defaulted on their loans.


There is no longer the slightest doubt in any sane person’s mind that not only are the GOP’s fundamentalist-extremist religious allies a death cult disguised as 501(c)3 tax-exempt charitable organizations. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Mike Lofgren
American conservatism – the so-called “culture of life” – worships annihilation.


The United States does have a huge domestic market, so it can see shutdowns in certain segments and still likely get by without severe shortages, but smaller countries absolutely need diverse sources. (Photo: Johannes Eisle/AFP/Getty Images)

by Dean Baker
The issue here is not the importance of the dollar, but rather the reluctance of other major economic powers to directly challenge U.S. policy.


America, too, will live on. But it will have lost some further measure of its greatness thanks in no small part to the man who, however cynically, wanted to make it great again.

by John Feffer
"The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet."

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