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News & Views | 8/12/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This administration seems set on damaging fragile ecosystems by prioritizing industry interests over science."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Advocates for seven faith-based peace activists are calling on the public to support the group as they fight federal charges and a potential 25-year prison sentence for disarming a nuclear submarine base.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is the fifteenth straight poll that shows Bernie defeating Trump."


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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It's the Environmental Protection Agency, not the pesticide protection agency."


Pro-democracy protesters hand out leaflets at the arrival hall of the Hong Kong International Airport

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters effectively shut down Hong Kong International Airport on Monday, the fourth day they have occupied one of the world's busiest airports as part of the mass demonstrations—against police brutality and a controversial extradition bill—that have rattled Hong Kong since June.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump's public charge rule is a xenophobic and classist attack on immigrants."


U.S. Attorney General William Barr

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
U.S. Attorney General William Barr was swiftly criticized by rights advocates on Monday for a speech in which he promised to deliver a bill—requested by President Donald Trump—to expedite certain death sentences and took aim at "district attorneys that style themselves as 'social justice' reformers."

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Demonstrators spotlight the power of soil at a march in Oakland

by Kristin Ohlson
The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report shows that agriculture is responsible for 37 percent of greenhouse gas emissions


A doctor showing a patient a syringe used to inject testosterone.

by Lindsey Kaley
The proposal is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to undermine our nation’s antidiscrimination laws.


Guatemalan migrants deported from the United States remain outside the Air Force Base after their arrival in Guatemala City on July 31, 2019.

by Renata Avila
The Trump administration is already campaigning for the upcoming elections and its main target is an easy fragile one – migration and how to put the brakes on it. Turning Guatemala into a temporary prison has been its latest achievement.


NAFTA protest

by Dean Baker
Over the last three decades, the United States has negotiated trade deals to benefit U.S. corporations


Deforestation

by Pablo Pacheco
Forest-related solutions are cost effective precisely because we can harness the power of nature to address climate change.


Site of the TVA Coal Ash Disaster more than Three Years Later

by Gloria Oladipo
People of color and white rural populations are going to suffer the most from the EPA’s war on renewable power.

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