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News & Views | 7/14/20

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Former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks during a CNN climate crisis town hall on Wednesday, September 4, 2019.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Biden gets a lot right... but he's still got a lot of room for improvement in increasing the scale, scope, and speed in which he addresses the climate emergency."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
A report released Tuesday by the Oakland Institute details an "unprecedented wave of privatization of natural resources that is underway around the world"—one that is largely being driven by the United States and its allies.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"These rollbacks have put all of us—especially low-income communities, Black people and people of color, and essential workers—at higher risk of contracting and dying from Covid-19."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Recipients of the enhanced unemployment benefit could see the aid slashed by more than 50% under a plan being discussed by the Trump administration and GOP


House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel arrives at the Rayburn House Office Building before a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill May 14, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The House Foreign Affairs Committee chair must advance "the bold, progressive foreign policy that this country deserves."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Attorney General Bill Barr and other administration officials appear to have criminally conspired to violently attack lawful demonstrators."


Agricultural laborers pick lemons inside the orchards of Samag Services, Inc., in Mesa, California on March 27, 2020. (Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The Trump administration should be prioritizing the health and safety of the nation's farmworkers who are essential to our food security instead of spending time on reducing protections for farmworkers' wages and working conditions."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If we had Medicare for All, nobody would be losing their healthcare."


Bill Pelke of Anchorage, Alaska expresses his opposition to the death penalty during a protest near the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana where Daniel Lewis Lee was scheduled to be executed on July 13, 2020. Lee was ultimately killed the following morning after an overnight decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Condemning the state-sanctioned murder of Daniel Lewis Lee, critics accused the high court of enabling the DOJ to "short-circuit federal appellate process to allow it to execute people in the middle of a global pandemic."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Holy shit, this can't be real."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A study from the Colorado-based Covid Eviction Defense Project revealed Monday that as many as 23 million people in the U.S. could be evicted by October if the federal government doesn't step in to provide ongoing assistance.

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There have been over 2,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in ICE detention. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Bárbara Suarez Galeano
These strikes are not isolated events, but thoughtful and organized forms of resistance that demonstrate the life and death risks one faces in detention.


U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Task Force 3-7 soldiers ride atop an armored vehicle during a training exercise near the Iraqi border March 13, 2003 in northern Kuwait. U.S and British forces within the region continue to poise for a possible strike on Iraq. (Photo: Scott Nelson/Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Zoltán Grossman
Just as we want to radically redefine the role of police in our local communities, so we must radically redefine the role of military personnel in the global community.



by Thom Hartmann
Will November bring the kind of change necessary to put an end to unnecessary death as a routine way of life in this country?


On April 23, 2020, with the world in the grips of the Covid-19 pandemic and the FAO warning of a looming global food crisis, Nestlé's shareholders and executives awarded themselves a record dividend payout of US$8 billion. (Photo: Raúl Hernández González/flickr/cc)

by GRAIN
All this greed at the top leaves devastation and little to trickle down to the bottom, where its consequences are deadly.


When President Trump addresses the pandemic, he doesn’t speak as an ex officio member of the CDC. He offers his own, private, ill-educated opinion. (Photo: Screenshot)

by Martin Powers
Without an office or expertise, there is no authority, so it should be obvious to any American that the President’s views are about as valuable as a used face mask.


Public opinion toward Israel and Palestine is shifting. (Photo: Stop the War UK)

by Mary Miller, Ariel Gold
The past several months have been exhausting for everyone, but the people of Palestine need support now more than ever. This is the time to escalate our activism, not let it fade away.

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