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News & Views | 8/6/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"President Trump just betrayed seniors, ordering cuts in Social Security funding because Congress wouldn't go along with his payroll tax cut scheme."

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by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
Court order follows an outbreak at the Mesa Verde Detention Center and evidence that officials opted not to test detainees for fear of positive test results.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"By taxing 60% of the wealth gains made by just 467 billionaires during this horrific pandemic, we could guarantee healthcare as a right for an entire year."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Civil rights advocates on Thursday marked the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, both in celebration of the hard-won victory of activists in the 1960s and in honor of the late Rep. John Lewis, whose tireless organizing helped pressure lawmakers to sign the legislation.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Republicans cannot be allowed to suppress the vote in the middle of a pandemic."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We must never allow this painful past to repeat itself."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Federal Reserve could prevent massive public sector layoffs. Instead, they've structured their lending so it's functionally unusable for most states and cities."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"I will not interfere with the Justice Department's judgment of whether or not they think they should pursue the prosecution of anyone that they think has violated the law."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I am a pediatric cardiologist. They can get sick. Some do get sick. Very sick. Some of them end up intubated."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
As prisons and jails across the country continue to report Covid-19 outbreaks among inmates and staff, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled late Wednesday that a county jail in California does not have to provide its population with basic sanitary and protective equipment or test symptomatic inmates.


Activists with Insure Our Future gathered outside Liberty Mutual's Boston and Seattle offices in December 2019 to demand the insure company "take bold action in the face of the climate emergency and stop insuring fossil fuels."

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Now is the time to decisively say no to this destructive project."

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The atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States on August 6, 1945. (Photo: Courtesy Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima)

by Gar Alperovitz, Martin Sherwin
U.S. leaders knew we didn't have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war. We did it anyway.


Mourners carry the coffin of a child at the funeral procession for those killed in an airstrike on a bus carried out last week by a warplane of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition on August 13, 2018 in Saada, Yemen. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

by Kathy Kelly
We must turn away from war, and the profit motives that drive so much of it, if we are to finally realize our dreams of peace and justice.


Supporters of Evo Morales demonstrate in Cochabamba, Bolivia in November of 2019. (Photo: RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

by Bryce Greene
US media have a well-documented history of supporting right-wing coups and regimes around the world, and not much seems to be changing.


Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to supporters during a campaign stop at Berston Field House in Flint, Michigan on March 9, 2020. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
To make a progressive future possible, beating Trump is absolutely necessary while very far from sufficient.


"Our message over the years has been simple and urgent: Nuclear weapons have totally failed us. They don’t make us safer; they don’t provide jobs; they don’t make us more secure—these are age-old lies. Instead they bankrupt us, economically and spiritually." (Photo: Courtesy of Rev. John Dear)

by Rev. John Dear
This 75th anniversary of Hiroshima should not just be an interesting historical marker; it should be a turning point, when the U.S. renounces its nuclear legacy, and charts a new course for itself and humanity.


Board of Election employees and volunteers wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) assist voters at the Brooklyn Museum polling site for the New York Democratic presidential primary on June 23, 2020. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
Yes, voting is important (if you can), but claiming the right to vote and have your vote counted—and being able to vote for more than simply the lesser evil and the maintenance of the status quo—requires continual struggle in the face of lies and teargas.

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