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News & Views | 8/10/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He is working to dismantle a fundamental institution of our democracy. He needs to resign or be removed, now."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The Trump administration appears intent on jeopardizing elections and marginalized communities for decades to come, critics said Sunday of the president's abrupt change to the U.S. Census deadline. 


Bystanders look at MV Wakashio bulk carrier that had run aground and is leaking oil near Blue Bay Marine Park in southeast Mauritius on August 6, 2020. (Photo: Dev Ramkhelawon/L'Express Maurice/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Climate campaigers charge that "this oil leak is not a twist of fate, but the choice of our twisted addiction to fossil fuels."


President Donald Trump stands after signing the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on January 29, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Trump's erratic, ego-driven, and inconsistent trade policies have not achieved any measurable progress, despite the newly combative rhetoric."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Sen. Ed Markey led the charge on Monday against his colleague, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, after Cruz mocked the notion of providing robust financial assistance to Americans during the coronavirus pandemic as the nation faces a Great Depression-level unemployment crisis. 



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Literally every new detail about these executive orders confirms that in addition to being wildly unconstitutional, they will do absolutely nothing to help anyone who's suffering."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"Rushing to reopen our schools will directly jeopardize the lives of our students and educators, and that is a risk we cannot take," said Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"We have to remove the loaded weapon that sits on the proverbial coffee table in the Oval Office."


facial recognition technology

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
A new publication warns that the surveillance technology in schools could exacerbate racial biases.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"In the middle of a global pandemic, it's a winning electoral strategy for the Democratic Party," one organizer said of supporting Medicare for All.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Outgoing Prime Minister Hassan Diab called the devastating blast a "crime" and blamed it on the "chronic corruption" of Lebanon's political elite.

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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 7, 2020

by Chris Hedges
Regardless of the outcome, the election will not stop the rise of hypernationalism, crisis cults and other signs of an empire's terminal decline.


Members of National Nurses United, the largest nurses union in the United States, protest in front of the White House April 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Sam Pizzigati
Nurses are losing lives and jobs while execs rake in million after million.


Greenpeace activists delivered 500 solar panels with a total area of over 800 square meters to BP's London headquarters in St. James Square Feb. 5, 2020.

by Robin Tress
The climate justice movement has created conditions that make it harder for companies like BP to explore and extract fossil fuels.



by Tom Engelhardt
My world and (unfortunately) welcome to It.


A procession of demonstrators marched in front of the statue of the Republic with trade union flags and banners calling for struggle on December 19, 2019, the fifteenth day of a national strike. (Photo: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
Silence as Trump kills tens of thousands, destroys Social Security and post office, and plots election fraud.


contract-tracing app

by Jay Stanley & Jon Callas
The debate over using apps for contact tracing or exposure warnings to help fight Covid-19 is largely a sideshow to the principal coronavirus health needs.

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