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News & Views | 7/7/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Epidemiologists and public interest groups were among the critics on Tuesday who expressed grave concern as the White House announced the U.S. is formally withdrawing from the World Health Organization, five weeks after threatening to do so.

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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We know from the experience of the recovery following the Great Recession just how powerful the economic drag from state and local austerity can be."


Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (C) waves to supporters during the inauguration of a field hospital in Aguas Lindas, in the State of Goiais, Brazil, on June 5, 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The announcement comes three days after the right-wing leader was photographed without a mask with the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil.


Citizens wearing protective masks form lines to receive free food from a food pantry run by the Council of Peoples Organization on May 8, 2020 in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Over 60 U.S.-based advocates and organizations on Tuesday released an open letter calling for "an immediate and sustained response to inequities causing Covid-19 to infect and kill a disproportionate number of people subjected to systemic racism and the denial of self-determination throughout the United States."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Kraninger just stamped an official seal of approval on one of the worst practices of payday lenders."


Surface air temperature anomaly for June 2020 relative to the June average for the period 1981–2010.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
European researchers revealed Tuesday that July 2019 to June 2020 effectively tied with another recent 12-month period as the hottest year on record based on global surface temperatures, bolstering calls from activists for international bodies and governments across the globe to take immediate action to tackle the climate crisis.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A new $300,000 ad campaign launched by an anti-monopoly non-profit group is taking aim at longtime Rep. Richard Neal, airing in his home district in Western Massachusetts and drawing attention to his stonewalling of anti-surprise medical billing legislation—in favor of a proposal that would have benefited one of his top donors.  


Protesters cycle around the block as they participate in a "car caravan" protest at the Amazon Spheres to demand the Seattle City Council tax the city's largest businesses in Seattle on May 1, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Working people and our movement have to unapologetically claim victory for what we've won, because we want to spread these victories to other cities."


The report warns that the coronavirus pandemic is set to make things worse for the poorest people in the world.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Poverty is a political choice and it will be with us until its elimination is reconceived as a matter of social justice."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The movement to put people before profits, and Indigenous rights before oil companies, is winning."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Serious questions remain about whether PPP funds were equitably distributed to minority-owned businesses, and there is an alarming rate of small-dollar loans."

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The military is an institution of American society, and as such its origins and development have been centrally influenced by the political economy of U.S. capitalism. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Walden Bello
The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars.


It’s time to defund our wars, both at home and abroad. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by William Hartung
Defunding America's wars at home and abroad.


The main idea underpinning the current version of capitalism is blindingly simple: you only have to remember one thing - that your job is to maximize profits. And you only have to accept one lie - that in doing so, you benefit the collective. (Photo: Flickr/Andy Roberts. CC BY 2.0.)

by Chris Oestereich
Pervasive inequality is a chosen catastrophe. It’s time for a rethink.


Congress seems to approach military interventions as if it were building mousetraps. It makes it easy to get into them, but almost impossible to get out. (Photo: Scott Nelson/Getty Images)

by Richard Eskow
There is simply no logic to it—other than the inexorable logic of war profiteering and global control.


Elva Nora Cruz is the sister of a fired Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME) member, and sits with Triqui women protesting violence in Oaxaca under a tent in Mexico City’s central square, the zocalo (Photo: David Bacon)

by David Bacon
For Mexican workers, farmers, and the poor, the pandemic and the new treaty replacing NAFTA are a devastating one-two punch.


NEPA requires federal agencies to consider the environmental impacts of their actions, including direct action by an agency or the permitting of private activity. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Adam Carlesco
NEPA is one of the biggest federal policies ever enacted to protect our environment. But Trump is out to gut it—here's why.

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