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News & Views | 5/25/20

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Noam Chomsky

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
New comments from the renowned academic come after he accused Trump of wanting "to destroy the prospects for all organized human life... in the near future."

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A new alliance of Canadian groups is calling for a just recovery.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The choices we make now about how to recover from this pandemic will shape not only our health and economic future, but also the future of human life on this planet."



Healthcare for People Not Profit sign

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A $3,278 bill that Timothy Regan received after coughing fits and a low-grade fever sent him to a Denver emergency room in early April—as the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the United States continued to climb—garnered national media attention Monday as an example of how much the nation's for-profit healthcare system is costing Americans, particularly in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.



A sign directed voters to a polling location during the Florida presidential primary on March 17, 2020 at Miami Beach City Hall in Miami Beach, Florida. People headed to the polls to vote for their Republican and Democratic choice in their parties’ respective primaries during the Covid-19 outbreak.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Civil liberties advocates celebrated after a federal court on Sunday struck down as unconstitutional a Florida law that would have denied the right to vote to nearly a million recently enfranchised state residents with past felony convictions until they paid all outstanding legal fees, fines, and restitution.



A patient is transferred from Elmhurst Hospital in New York on April 25, 2020. (Photo: John Lamparski/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"If you ever hear a hospital complaining they don't have enough money, see if they have a venture fund."



President Trump plays golf in Sterling, Va., on May 23. (Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"A poignant Memorial Day tribute by President Trump."



An Iranian oil tanker.

by Common Dreams staff
“We hope the Americans will not make a mistake.”



US President Donald Trump walks from a SUV upon return to the White House in Washington, DC on May 23, 2020. - Trump returned to the White House after spending the day at his Virginia golf club.

by Common Dreams staff
"100,000 Americans dead. 40,000,000 unemployed. So let’s go golfing."


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Members of National Nurses United stand in protest among empty shoes representing nurses who have died from Covid-19 in Lafayette Park across from the White House May 07, 2020. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Richard Eskow
Covid-19 has shown us how many different kinds of workers are needed to keep us safe, housed, and fed. Many of them face danger every day, just as soldiers do.



A man rides through as grocery store workers and others stage a protest rally outside the Whole Foods Market, in the South End of Boston, to demand personal protective equipment, added benefits if needed and hazard pay, during the coronavirus pandemic on Apr. 7, 2020. (Photo by Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

by Michelle Chen
Workers are fighting for their lives—even as they save ours.



 On this Memorial Day, let's remember the peace and justice activists—including Rachel Corrie—who died while demanding a better world. (Photo: Denny Sternstein/AP)

by Matthew Rothschild
Let us remember those who died fighting for human rights and a better world.



Waves pound against the shore of Plum Island in Massachusetts, the day after a winter storm.

by Meena Miriam Yust, Arshad M. Khan



A Memorial Day For Lies?

by Laura Flanders



(Historical photos colorized by Marina Amaral, in project called ‘In Color || Slavery In Brazil, 1869’)

by Mirna Wabi-Sabi


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