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News & Views | 5/22/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
On social media Friday, author Anand Giridharadas shared what he called an "end-of-empire" video featuring a number of people refusing to wear face masks in public places, coughing on others, and claiming their "freedom" is being trampled by public health guidance.

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New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It was a death sentence."


Executive Chairman of Ford William Clay Ford Jr. (L) tour with President Donald Trump the Ford Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan on May 21, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A New York-based Jewish advocacy group is among those calling out President Donald Trump for praising the "good bloodlines" of American industrialist and infamous anti-Semite Henry Ford during a Thursday night speech at a Ford Motor Company plant in Michigan.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If there was ever hope for this drug, this is the death of it."


A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farmer works on his field in Ghent, Belgium on May 21, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the world recognized the International Day for Biological Diversity on Friday, the youth-led Fridays for Future movement sent an open letter to European Union leaders demanding a transformation of the economic and political coalition's agricultural policies to tackle the intertwined biodiversity and climate crises.


U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) wearing a face mask as a preventive measure walks towards the Republican caucus launch. (Photo illustration: Photo by Michael Brochstein/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"With seniors most at risk from Covid-19, we need to be increasing Social Security's modest benefits, not creating secret commissions to cut them."


Aerial view of the dam that the Tittabawassee River breached on May 20, 2020 in Sanford, Michigan.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The prospect of a nuclear disaster prompting a mass evacuation during a viral pandemic reinforces the need for an energy policy focused on safe, clean and affordable renewable energy."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I personally get really sick and tired of turning on the TV and seeing these companies run these ads, 'Thank you heroes and heroines, but of course we're not going to pay you any more money.'"


A sign warns residents to take steps to contol the coronavirus outbreak at the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn on March 19, 2020 in New York City.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We are witnessing the complete breakdown of the United States government."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Oil and gas corporations already pay pennies compared to what they make in profits from plundering public lands—land that belongs to the American people—and now they'll pay even less."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I think the message he sent is the same message since he first took office in 2017, which is, 'I don't care about you.'"

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by Jules Boykoff
Homelessness is a humanitarian crisis in plain sight and a bleak indictment of capitalism. Now the capitalists have a chance—a duty, really—to step up in the clutch.


A return to “normal” in governments’ policies towards fossil fuel production—which were largely still enabling its expansion—is out of the question. To “build back better,” governments must exit the unstable boom-bust cycles of extraction, and instead manage its phase-out in a predictable, people-centered, and Paris-proof way. (Photo: Pixabay.com)

by Kelly Trout
The world needs a recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic that dispatches with the old subservience to the fossil fuel industry and instead puts health first, provides relief directly to people, centers workers and communities not corporate executives, builds solidarity across borders, and—crucially—...


Amazon head Jeff Bezos appears at a company event Sept. 25, 2019. Thanks to Covid-19's sales boosts, in the first quarter of 2020 Bezos made back the $10 billion he lost in 2019 more than twice over. Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa (Photo: Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

by Amber Colón Núñez
Here are some of the most outrageous capitalist responses to the pandemic.


In addition to contributing to climate change, forest fires present a more immediate and very grave threat to public health. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Luciana Tellez-Chavez
Countries are using the coronavirus crisis to lift environmental regulations, even as COVID-19 leaves populations more vulnerable to health impacts from fires.


Systematic inequality in America has produced two very different pandemics. (Photo: Screenshot/Youtube)

by Robert Reich
We are all weathering the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat.


While location surveillance is problematic at any time, the coronavirus crisis has led to a rapid uptick in its use; many measures to facilitate it have been passed by fast-tracked legislative procedures during national state of emergencies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Kotecki)

by Katitza Rodriguez, Svea Windwehr
Location surveillance comes with a host of risks to citizens’ privacy, freedom of expression and data protection rights.

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