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News & Views | 9/3/19
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As Aerial Footage of Devastated Bahamas Emerges, Campaigners Ask How Much Destruction and Death Before Global Climate Action Taken?
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the National Hurricane Center announced Tuesday that Hurricane
Dorian's core was "finally moving away from Grand Bahama Island," toward
the Southeastern U.S. coast, footage of the storm's devastation flooded
the internet alongside calls for governments and the news media to
recognize the here-...
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'Flat-Out Lying': Critics Reject Biden Effort to Re-Write History on His Support for US Invasion of Iraq
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Biden claiming to have been against the Iraq War from the start is
arguably the most outlandish lie any Democrat has told this campaign."
Voting Rights Advocates Celebrate 'Huge Win for Democracy' as NC State Court Strikes Down GOP's Gerrymandered District Map
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
State officials have two weeks to redraw North Carolina's district map
following a unanimous ruling by a state court, which found that
Republicans in the state were guilty of partisan gerrymandering.
Watch Dying Activist Ady Barkan's "Heartfelt" and "Moving" Conversation With Bernie Sanders on the Fight for Medicare for All
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"You have been an integral part of the struggle to make clear that
healthcare is a human right," Sanders told Barkan
'Endemic Impunity': UN Report on Yemen Says United States, France, and Britain May Be Complicit in War Crimes
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Five years into the conflict, violations against Yemeni civilians
continue unabated, with total disregard for the plight of the people and
a lack of international action to hold parties to the conflict
accountable."
'Not Enough': Critics Say Walmart Must Go Beyond Corporate PR and Half-Measures on Guns
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Leading gun control groups praised Walmart Tuesday after the company
announced its stores would no longer sell certain firearm ammunition and
would reduce its gun sales, citing recent mass shootings in Texas and
Ohio—but the applause came with keen awareness that small steps by
corporations won't stop gun violence and that lawmakers must take
responsibility for the epidemic.
'Naked Attack on the Free Press': Trump Allies Reportedly Raising $2 Million for Campaign to Discredit Journalists
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Intimidating reporters to influence coverage is a tactic of dictators
and has no place here," said Sen. Jeff Merkley
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Bill McKibben: This Climate Strike Is Part of the Disruption We Need
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by Bill McKibben
"It can't just be young people. It needs to be all of us."
As Climate Crisis Thrashes Planet, Never a Leader So Divorced From Reality as Trump
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by Jesse Jackson
President Donald Trump not only denies the threat posed by manmade
climate change, he consciously, purposefully and perversely works to
accelerate it.
The Rise and Rise of the Global Climate Movement
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by Sophie Yeo
Climate activism isn't new, but the last year has seen a resurgence in
attention devoted to the subject.
Addressing Those Who Have Been Fooled All of the Time
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by James Zogby
What don't we understand about Trump supporters? How have the political
experts continuously been so wrong about this president and those who
believe in him?
Please Shut Up, Mr. President, and Read Some Books
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by Michael Winship
EB White and James Thurber could teach Trump—and us—a thing or two.
Inside Bill Gates’ Hubris: Propaganda to Make America Neoliberal Again
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by Steven Singer
New Gates documentary is a cry for oligarchy in an age of idiocracy; a
love letter to neoliberalism in a time of neofascism.
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New Report Details Rhode Island’s Risk-Limiting Audit Tests to Identify Best System for 2020 Election
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Sanders, Lee, Khanna, Gaetz Lead Bipartisan Effort to Defund U.S. Role in Saudi War in Yemen
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