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News & Views | 9/8/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Senate Republicans appear dead set on another bill which doesn't come close to addressing the problems and is headed nowhere."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We need a reckoning. We can't simply move on."


Hashem Mahmoud Atin, a 10-month-old displaced Yemeni child suffering from acute malnutrition and who is unable to reach a hospital for treatment, is held by his mother at a camp in Abs in northern Yemen's Hajjah province on September 3, 2020. (Photo: Essa Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"A lack of funding for emergency relief and the complications created by the coronavirus scourge have now pushed some of the world's neediest populations closer to famine conditions."


Power lines are cast in silhouette as the Creek Fire creeps up on on the Shaver Springs community off of Tollhouse Road on September 8, 2020 in Auberry, California. (Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A spokesperson for CAL FIRE called the news "unnerving," noting that "September and October are historically our worst months for fires."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney said the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors should immediately suspend DeJoy as the probe moves forward.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"These cases represent a cost of over $12.2 billion," researchers wrote.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"We need less Wall Street in the next administration and more working class representation."


President Donald Trump has presided over the U.S.-led destruction of cities including Mosul, Iraq—shown here under U.S. bombardment—during his escalation of the so-called "war on terror" in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Critics note the president has increased military spending to record levels while fulfilling his promise to "bomb the shit" out of militants—and their families.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"It is simply remarkable and beyond dangerous that President Trump has so politicized the vaccine process to the point that drug corporations—the least trusted industry in America—are now the messengers on vaccine safety."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A federal task force fighting the spread of the coronavirus around the world will disband on Wednesday amid efforts by the Trump administration to treat the Covid-19 pandemic as an event that is firmly in the past. 


Healthcare professionals and opponents of carceral facilities demand the release of people detained at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach, Florida on May 1, 2020. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Covid-19 turns "every cell and cage into a potential death chamber," organizers say.

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Protesters holding a banner reading, "U.S. Immigration Policy Is A Crime" at a silent protest in January 2020.

by Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores
Progressive groups see the need to push a new administration to make a positive contribution to the well-being of people throughout the hemisphere.


National Nurses United (NNU), along with a broader coalition of pro-Medicare for All organizations, rallied outside of the national headquarters of PhRMA in support of Medicare for All.

by Russell Mokhiber
Will Trump pull the single-payer card?


"Donald J. Trump has given American carnage new meaning and, in his singular way, lent a remarkable hand to the transformation of this country," writes Engelhardt. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Tom Engelhardt
The Great, Great Fall


"There is still a deep well of respect and trust for the United States in Europe...a second Trump election victory would finally poison that well," writes Dyer. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

by Gwynne Dyer
Losing one election to Trump is unlucky; losing two in a row may be saying something about the national character.


President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at the BOK Center on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

by Jim Goodman
The GOP has officially embraced a continuation of Trump's policies, reaffirming its support for a president whose idea of "law and order" is a recipe for more violence.



by Steven Singer
Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos are two peas in a pod committed to avoiding accountability for themselves but determined to destroy public services.

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