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News & Views | 9/2/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We are surrounded by water with no way out. Absolute devastation, there really are no words."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This Labor Day, workers across America will declare that the 40-year war against workers waged by corporate America and the billionaire class must come to an end. That is what this Labor Day is about."


Frances Crowe, then 91 years old, is photographed in front of her home in Northampton, Mass. on Thursday, September 9, 2010

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"As we celebrate her life and mourn her passing," said one friend and ally, "we know that the best tribute of all is to keep on fighting."


Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo: Anders Hellberg/Effekt)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"The bile thrown at Greta Thunberg is motivated by one thing alone: this incredibly intelligent, eloquent and compassionate 16 year old has terrified some of the most hateful and reactionary so-called 'grown ups' on earth," said British political columnist activist Owen Jones.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Congress has declared this war unconstitutional. We must now stand up to Trump and defund all U.S. involvement in these horrors."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They've done more things to hurt workers than they have to help them," Richard Trumka said of the Trump administration


Pope Francis greets Swedish teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg, right, during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 17, 2019.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Now is the time to abandon our dependence on fossil fuels."

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Pia Klemp

by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
It is rare nowadays to read about a person in the deluge of bad news flooding our screens 24/7 and immediately think: Now this is a true hero. But when it comes to Pia Klemp, the description is not only entirely appropriate but entirely necessary.


Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun

by Ed Rampell
If the press is the "fourth estate," the cinema is arguably the fifth. Official Secrets indicts Blair, Bush, and other mass murderers in the court of public opinion—at a theater near you


kids eating lunch

by Karen Dolan
At the very least they deserve access to hot and nutritious meals. It's a moral imperative.


British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (left) and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler (in light jacket)

by Robert Freeman
It is worth our while to try to disentangle some of the realities of the war from the mythologies we so love to worship


afghanistan

by Eric Margolis
The sooner America ends this shameful colonial war the better.


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

by John Atcheson
Last week Bernie Sanders released his version of the Green New Deal—a $16.3 trillion 10-year plan to get down to zero carbon in the power industry and in transportation. Right on schedule, the neoliberal establishment pounced on it as "too expensive," not "realistic" and not "prudent."

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