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News & Views | 8/19/19

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Just over five years after Eric Garner was killed during an arrest by an New York City police officer—and following years of unrelenting advocacy by his family and other supporters—the officer who killed Garner was fired on Monday.

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Members of the Sunrise Movement hubs from all across New York state gathered for a raucous rally on August 13, 2019 outside of the DNC headquarters on 420 Lexington Avenue in New York City to pressure the N.Y. members of the DNC to vote for a climate debate when the DNC gathers in San Francisco on August 22-24.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Only a climate-specific debate will show whether the candidates are climate ready or not."


Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a 2020 presidential candidate, speaks during a news conference with fellow Democrats at the U.S. Capitol October 25, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We need a leader who prioritizes the future of humanity over rubbing elbows with millionaires and billionaires."


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future urged all 2020 presidential candidates Monday to follow the lead of Sen. Bernie Sanders in calling for a ban on law enforcement's use of facial recognition technology.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done."


Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, pictured in Beijing, China in November 2018, called on the world Sunday to watch neighboring India's right-wing tilt.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Indian PM Narendra Modi reportedly rejected the comparison in a Monday phone conversation with US President Donald Trump


People take part in a demonstration as part of the campaign "Stop Killer Robots" organised by German NGO "Facing Finance" to ban what they call killer robots on March 21, 2019 in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Without a binding treaty requiring "meaningful human control over the use of force," say campaigners, lives could "be taken based on algorithms"

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These war crimes promise to continue unless the U.S. military completely withdraws from Afghanistan.

by Marjorie Cohn
As the carnage continues with no end in sight, all of the Democratic candidates should be making immediate and complete U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and indeed, all countries in which the United States is fighting, a central pillar of their platforms.


Excessive CEO, which comes at the expense of the corporation, is far more pernicious than returns to shareholders. (Image: Shutterstock)

by Dean Baker
Rather than maximizing shareholder returns, it seems more plausible that CEOs have been maximizing CEO pay, which has risen 940 percent since 1978.


"The Biggest Little Farm” will likely leave you inspired, hopeful even, and you'll want all your friends to see it. (Photo: Screenshot)

by Diana Donlon
The real takeaway from this movie is that the miracle of self-renewal can happen anywhere, once soil-health restoration becomes the priority and the processes that allow nature to regenerate are set into motion.


We are, in other words, already on a dystopian planet. (Photo Detail: Jim Bourg/Reuters, Paneikon)

by Tom Engelhardt
Orwell revisited in the age of Trump


That report notes that among the key resource sectors that are driving the violence against human rights defenders is agribusiness. (Photo: Gabrielle Galindo)

by Brent Patterson
"A year before he died, Hernán warned the palm oil companies planned to plant another 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres), which would be impossible unless he and more than a dozen other campesinos were dispossessed."


Little is known about this industry, which operates from the shadows despite repeated requests for more transparency. (Photo: g4ll4is / Flickr)

by Likhita Banerji
Despite the existence of these international laws and standards, states and private companies have been able to buy and use spyware freely and without any provision for accountability.

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