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News & Views | 7/20/20

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A protester wearing a mask holds a sign that reads, "American was never great! We need to Overthrow this system!" in front of a mural with New York Police Department officers in full riot gear and the banner above them that says, "Demilitarize The Police" during a march in Manhattan on July 18, 2020. (Photo: Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The president also praised federal agents for doing a "fantastic job" with a widely condemned crackdown on Portland, Oregon.

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School counselor Chloe Gerbec and teachers Malikah Armbrister and Brittany Myers stand in protest in front of the Hillsborough County Schools District Office on July 16, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. Teachers and administrators from Hillsborough County Schools rallied against the reopening of schools due to health and safety concerns amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The state's "push to physically reopen schools full time without any precautions or new resources, and, most importantly, amid a skyrocketing Covid-19 surge, ignores science, safety, and basic humanity."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"If an officer violates their agency's policies, their victim should have the ability to report them to their agency and demand accountability."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Pointing to the success of the SNAP program, formerly known as food stamps, during the coronavirus pandemic, economists on Monday said Republicans' plan to end the expansion of the aid program would be "unconscionable."



by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"The exercise also has the advantage for Trump of entrenching a new form of secret police and of turning federal agents into instruments of his authoritarianism."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"When we come together in our union and with our community, we have power."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Angered over the arrival of federal agents in Portland, Oregon, where racial justice protests have been ongoing for nearly two months since the killing of George Floyd, dozens of mothers in the city joined demonstrators over the weekend to form a "Wall of Moms."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"There is a lot of continuity between the Bush and Trump administration, including an almost limitless view of executive power."


"I was enraged simply because I did not think they were taking their oath of office seriously or they were compromising their oath of office," Christopher David, the 53-year-old disabled Navy veteran shown above being attacked and pepper sprayed by federal police. "So I actually went down because I wanted to talk to them about it." (Screenshot: via Twitter/Zane Sparling/@PDXzane)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"They just started whaling on me with batons, and I let them," said Christopher David.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Trump administration's mismanagement of the Covid-19 response and refusal to heed public health expertise continue to put the country in a dangerous position."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"A dangerous affront to our democratic system and a slide toward totalitarianism. We cannot take this lightly."

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An all-encompassing expression of goodwill in the form of a New Good Neighbor Policy will meet resistance from vested economic and military interests, as well as those persuaded by racist arguments.(Photo: CC)

by Medea Benjamin, Steve Ellner
Instead of continuing down this imperial path of endless confrontation, U.S. policymakers need to stop, recalibrate, and design an entirely new approach to inter-American relations.


The Pentagon budget is more than 100 times the budget of the Centers for Disease Control. (Photo by NurPhoto/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Lindsay Koshgarian
A 10 percent cut to the Pentagon could come from a multitude of places, including: ending our never-ending wars in the Middle East, reducing our reliance on nuclear weapons, and turning off the spigot to arms contractors.


Federal officers prepare to disperse the crowd of protestors outside the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 17, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo: Mason Trinca/Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
Strongarm tactics in Oregon may be just the warmup for a stolen vote.


The Navy’s plans to replace large manned vessels with small, unmanned ones was only accelerated by the outbreak of the pandemic. (Photo: US Navy/DoD)

by Michael T. Klare
The Pentagon confronts the pandemic.


Australian troops on patrol in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class John Collins, Wikimedia Commons)

by Brett Wilkins
"A small number of commissioned officers had allowed a culture where abhorrent conduct was permitted."


Police arrest demonstrators as Black Lives Matter supporters demonstrate in Portland, Oregon on July 4, 2020 for the thirty-eighth day in a row at Portland's Justice Center and throughout Portland, with a riot declared about 12.20 am on July 5. CS tear gas and less-lethal weapons were used, and multiple arrests were made. (Photo by John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
This is what fascism looks like. It spares no one.

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