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News & Views | 8/16/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The idea that a member of the United States Congress cannot visit a nation which, by the way, we support to the tune of billions and billions of dollars is clearly an outrage."

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), pictured during a hearing on February 27, 2019, decided Friday not to accept Israel's restrictive conditions for her visit to family in the occupied West Bank.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"What Israel proposed to Rashida Tlaib was their age-old proposition: you can stay in your homeland as a humanitarian exception—without political rights—and on condition you surrender and cease to resist."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Banding together after a number of attacks on immigrants and Latinx people in the U.S., more than 200 Latinx entertainers, artists, and rights advocates published a letter in several major newspapers on Friday, pledging solidarity with people of Latin American descent across the United States.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
In comments that highlighted President Donald Trump's refusal to take meaningful action on gun control, his desire to demonize and detain vulnerable people, and his attacks on Americans' healthcare, the president  repeated his claim on Thursday that people with mental illnesses are the cause of the country's epidemic of gun violence.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The White House is calling for reauthorization of a program that security agencies have used to spy on innocent people, violate their privacy, and chill free speech."


Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, middle, watered down a climate crisis resolution this week at the Pacific Islands Forum.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Watered-down climate language has real consequences—like water-logged homes, schools, communities, and ancestral burial grounds."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We are going to build a nationwide movement of young people to create a government and an economy that work for all of us," Sanders said in response to the survey

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US President George Bush addresses the nation during his State of the Union address from Capitol Hill in Washington 20 January 2004. Bush vowed that the United States "will never seek a permission slip" to go to war as he took aim in his annual State of the Union speech at critics of the invasion of Iraq. At left is Vice President Dick Cheney; at right House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-IL. (Photo: Kevin Lamarque/AFP/Getty Images)

by Robert Shetterly
The former president is a war criminal guilty of crimes against humanity—a serial killer. Will the American people ever come to grips with this fact?


DCCC Chair Cheri Bustos announced a “blacklist” policy, which sought to stifle the people-powered democratic process by requiring political consultants to sign a loyalty pledge to incumbent Democrats. (Photo: Greg Nash)

by Richard Rodriguez
We need a political system that works for the people, not the deep-pocketed special interests.


Children of mainly Latino immigrant parents hold signs during a march to the Madison County Courthouse in Canton, Miss., on Aug. 11, 2019. The demonstration followed ICE raids earlier that week at seven poultry plants in Mississippi, including one in Canton. (Photo: Rogelio V. Solis / AP)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
In Trump’s version of America, the Statue of Liberty might say, "only white wealthy immigrants are welcome here."


Today, a number of push factors are driving Central Americans from their homes, especially (once again) in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.(Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

by Rebecca Gordon
What happens in El Norte, doesn’t stay in El Norte


US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks to cheering supporters at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Organizing Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California Sunday June 2, 2019. (Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Julie Hollar
Fairness & Accuracy In Media (FAIR) has been following this issue for quite some time, so we're happy to offer the evidence CNN and the Post claim is lacking


Mickey Ray Williams, president of the USW local union at the Goodyear plant in Gadsden, Alabama, with a tire made in Mexico.

by Tom Conway
This sad story is as old as NAFTA.

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