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News & Views | 6/2/20
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Demands for Trump Removal Grow as 'Fascist' Speech Condemned as Declaration of War Against US Public
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump needs to be removed now, because after the massacre it will be
too late."
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'He Must Resign': Attorney General Barr Personally Ordered Police Assault on Peaceful DC Protesters, Report Says
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"AG Bill Barr's behavior has been deeply problematic since he was sworn
in, but now it has become truly dangerous. He needs to resign."
In 'Targeted Strike' Against Environmental and Racial Justice, Trump EPA Curbs State Power to Reject Fossil Fuel Projects
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
With the nation focused on the coronavirus pandemic and protests against
U.S. police brutality that have sprung up across the globe, the Trump
administration continues to quietly attack federal policies that protect
public health and the environment to limit the legal burdens faced by
planet-wrecking fossil fuel companies.
Clamoring for Mic at Black Lives Matter Event, Rep. Eliot Engel Admits "If I Didn't Have a Primary I Wouldn't Care"
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Frankly," said a representative for Engel's progressive challenger
Jamaal Bowman, "we couldn't have made the case more clearly ourselves
that after 31 years, it's time for change."
From 'No Comment' to 'Didn't Really See It': GOP Lawmakers Squirm When Asked About Trump Threat to Unleash Military on Protesting Americans
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This was the same response in Nazi Germany."
'This Isn't a Healthy Democracy': Warnings of Domestic Military Threat as Top US General Walks DC Streets in Combat Fatigues
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The commander of the joint chiefs is surveying the streets of D.C. in
uniform like he's planning a military assault."
'Do the Right Thing': Veterans Call On National Guard Members to Refuse to Deploy Against Protesters
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It is asinine for a rich man hiding in a bunker to ask these troops,
most of whom probably signed up to pay for access to college and
healthcare, to take actions that will inevitably lead to more violence
and haunt them for the rest of their lives."
'Extinction Is a Political Choice,' Scientist Says After Study Warns of Threat to Civilization From Humans Destroying Wildlife
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After years of warnings from scientists that the world is witnessing
Earth's sixth mass extinction, a new study concludes that the current
crisis is not only "human caused and accelerating" but also "may be the
most serious environmental threat to the persistence of civilization,
because it is irreversible."
After Trump's Authoritarian 'Law and Order' Speech, Military Helicopters Descend Low Over DC to Intimidate Protesters
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"What Trump did tonight is going to be remembered as a significant and
grave moment in this horror of an era we are living through."
'This Must Stop': Leading Journalism Groups Demand Law Enforcement Halt Attacks on Working Press
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"When you silence the press with rubber bullets, you silence the voice
of the public."
Minneapolis School Board to Vote on Ending Contract With Police Over Failure to 'See Humanity in Our Students'
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The Minneapolis public school board will vote Tuesday evening on a
resolution to end its contract with the city's police department
following the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man.
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Views...
The Treason of the Ruling Class
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by Chris Hedges
They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a
mafia state.
"I Can't Breathe": The Murder of George Floyd Was a Lynching in Broad Daylight
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by Jesse Jackson
The signs say Black Lives Matter. Yet the very people who are supposed
to protect us too often, in too many places, don't seem to agree.
No Justice, No Peace, No Leader at the Top
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by Michael Winship
At a time for healing, Donald Trump pokes at the wound.
How the Credibility Gap Became a Chasm in the Age of Trump
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by Rebecca Gordon
...and a new generation gap grew wider.
The Oligopoly That Controls Our Digital Infrastructure Has Deepened Economic and Racial Divides
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by Thomas Hanna
As we rebuild, let's remove control of wireless spectrum, cloud
infrastructure, and broadband internet from corporate hands and put it
under public, democratic control.
Donald Trump Needs to Go. And No, We Can’t Wait Until November
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by Will Bunch
The president of the United States declared war on America on Monday
night.
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Newswire...
350.org in Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives; Reinforces Commitment to Dismantle White Supremacy
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NLG Statement on the President’s Unlawful Declaration of Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization
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Statement on Trump’s Authoritarian Photo Op
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Attack on States’ Rights to Reject Fossil Fuel Projects is a Classic, Desperate Trump Temper Tantrum
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Insurers Shouldn’t Have to Be Shamed Into Providing Free Coronavirus Treatment
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