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News & Views | 8/13/20
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'Just Comes Out and Says It': Trump Declares Postal Service Can't Handle Mail-In Voting Because He's Blocking Funding
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is crazy by any standard. The president of the United States is
actively trying to sabotage the election."
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Trump EPA Plows Ahead With 'Mind-Bogglingly Stupid and Destructive' Rollback of Methane Emissions Rules
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Even for the Trump administration, this is an appalling new low."
Palestinian Rights Advocates Refuse to Applaud Israel-Trump-UAE Deal That Upholds 'Ongoing, Devastating Apartheid'
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The Trump administration hit upon the Nobel Peace Prize-winning idea
that you can supposedly solve the Israel-Palestine conflict by
pretending Palestinians don't exist."
Victory for Democracy as Supreme Court Blocks 'Merciless' GOP Effort to Restrict Mail-In Voting in Rhode Island
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Thanks to the high court's decision, said one voting rights advocate,
"hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island voters will be able to safely
cast their ballots without risking their health."
'Silence Is Complicity': GOP Condemned for Doing Nothing as Trump Openly Touts Sabotage of Postal Service
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Donald Trump knows that if the people are heard in November, he and
Republicans up and down the ballot will lose," said Sen. Elizabeth
Warren. "This is what we're up against—and this is why we have to fight
back with all we've got."
Ro Khanna Announces 'No' Vote on DNC Platform Over Exclusion of 'Moral Issue of Our Time'—Medicare for All
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I will be voting 'No' on the platform because when we say that
healthcare is a human right," says the progressive congressman from
California, "we must truly mean it—and fight for it."
As GOP Blocks Covid Relief, Experts Warn of 'Wave of Despair' and Devastating Anecdotes Show Crisis Already Here
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
As millions of Americans grapple with the consequences of federal
lawmakers' failure to extend the $600 weekly unemployment benefit
credited with temporarily lifting the poorest families out of poverty
this spring, experts warned Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic could
directly lead to a rise in suicides, drug overdoses, and despair across
the country.
Tennessee GOP Targets Racial Justice Movement by Turning Encampment Protests Into Felonies Punishable by Prison Term
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Bonus penalty for exercising your protest rights in an unapproved
manner: you lose your voting rights."
Watchdog Warns Unchecked Covid-19 Contact Tracing Apps Threaten Workers With 'Dystopian Mass Surveillance'
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by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
As competing bills aimed at privacy rights make their way through
Congress, employers mull the use of apps to quell the spread of
Coronavirus in the workplace.
'Screams of Torture' as Authoritarian Government in Belarus Continues Attacks on Protesters, Journalists
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by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
Following what pro-democracy advocates say was a rigged election, world
leaders condemn the violence against protestors and the press, and the
authoritarian regime's main opponent has fled the country.
UN Chief: Pandemic Must Be Met With Commitment to Peace
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Covid-19 is a human tragedy, but we can mitigate the impacts by the
choices we make."
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Why I Am Voting No on the Democratic Party Platform
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by Ro Khanna
History teaches us that the Democratic Party has sometimes faced an
issue so great that it alone should be the yardstick for measuring the
wisdom of voting for or against the platform. This is one of those
times. And Medicare for All is that issue.
Trump Doesn't Want Law or Order. He Wants Chaos and Division
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by Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith
Trump's federal troops sow disorder wherever they're deployed. That's
the point.
Joe Biden Wins... Then What?
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by Andrew Bacevich
If he seriously intends to be more than a relic of pre-Trump liberal
centrism, how exactly should President Biden go about making his mark?
Learning From the Hibakushas
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by Robert C. Koehler
The essential paradox of disarmament is that nuclear power, and thus
nuclear bombs, having been invented, will never go away.
What Will Trump Do to the World to Win Re-Election?
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by John Feffer
Trump shrugged at 150,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths. Who's to say he's above
starting a fight with China or Iran?
Trump and His GOP Enablers Are the Enemy: The Case for Unity Now
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by Jeffrey C. Isaac
Might some of the Republican 'Never Trumpers' move to the Democratic
Party and seek to influence it? Yes. Is this nefarious? No. It is
politics. Politics at a time of great instability and danger.
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Trump Administration Continues Assault on Climate, Americans’ Health With Obama-Era Methane Rule Rollback
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Trump Administration Rolls Back Methane Pollution Rules for Oil, Gas Industry
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EPA’s New, Weakened Methane Rules Will Accelerate the Dangers of Climate Change
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“A Brazen Crime Committed in Broad Daylight” Democracy Initiative Says GOP Must Denounce Trump’s Threat to Delay U.S. Mail During 2020 Election
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Supreme Court Protects Absentee Voters from Unnecessary Witness Requirement
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