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News & Views | 7/27/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The country is on fire and the chief concern for Senate Republicans is that unemployed people have too much money."

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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's important that our youth understand that joining the military isn't the only way to pay for college or find stability in life."


Demonstrators block the entrance to a Deutsche Bank branch in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart on September 20, 2019. (Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

by Krissy Waite, editorial intern
The bank joins a list of two dozen others that will not back Arctic drilling projects.


Protesters hold a banner reading COVID BEHIND BARS = DEATH at a rally on Rikers Island in New York City on June 19, 2020. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"With additional decarceral efforts, many further infections can be prevented in the... cities analyzed and many others."


Police ride on an armored vehicle on May 31, 2020 in Bellevue, Washington.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This report sheds a harsh and needed light on the ways police violence and systemic racism intersect with the climate crisis."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Totally avoidable. Entirely foreseeable."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Trump said in January 2017 that Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders, was "all talk" and "no action."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Democrats who understand the profound need for Medicare for All don't want a pat on the head. We want a genuine political commitment to healthcare as a human right."


Congressman Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) participated in a livestreamed debate Sunday night. (Photo: Ed Markey for Senate/YouTube)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"It is now day 309 of trying to figure out why Kennedy decided to run for Senate. He obviously doesn't even know either."...



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"You know Republicans are in pretty bad shape when they have to go with a plan based on rough ideas that Donald Trump's own Secretary of Labor says are unworkable."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The White House claims there is no risk to the president or vice president.

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The only comprehensive solution is Medicare for All. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Hebah Kassem
As a nation, we will only be healthy if everyone has access to healthcare.


"Monsanto has known for several decades that Roundup (glyphosate) causes cancer. Rather than informing consumers about the glyphosate cancer risk, Monsanto buried the risks as sales of Roundup continued to skyrocket." (Photo: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images)

by Judy Young, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
We must take these public health choices out of the hands of corporate executives and put corporations in their proper place: subservient to public welfare.


A state of permanent war is considered America’s new normal. (Photo: U.S. Army Photo by John Pellino/flickr)

by William Astore
The military-industrial complex as a cytokine storm.


Alternative finance for a solidarity economy. (Photo: CC)

by Emily Kawano, Julie Matthaei
Transferring ownership to workers, communities, and/or the state allows for a shift in the entire focus of the economy from generating profit for the top one percent to serving all the people.


Public sops for this powerful global industry, whether international or national, must stop if we want real food system transformation for the planet. (Photo: Tim Geers/Flickr/cc)

by Shefali Sharma
The goal should be climate resilience and mitigation that helps empower local communities, indigenous peoples and workers while diminishing market power of oligopolies in agribusiness that drives social and environmental standards towards a race to the bottom.


Palestinian bedouins collect their belongings after Israeli forces demolish Palestinian's structures including buildings and tents in Ayn al-Hijle village of Jericho, West Bank on June 3, 2020. (Photo by Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Ramzy Baroud
Without international pressure, Israel will never, on its own, confront its demons of military occupation, apartheid and deep-rooted racism.

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