Monday, September 16, 2019 Scientists' Advice to People Living in Coastal Areas? Move. Dahr Jamail, Truthout The Amazon rainforest continues to burn amid record wildfires that have scorched more than 1,300 square miles. Moreover, in the past month, scientists have warned that it appears as though the Greenland Ice Sheet has experienced a record melt year. This year alone, it lost enough ice to raise global sea levels by more than one millimeter. Scientists are warning people who live in coastal areas to get out.
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Supreme Court Ruling Pushes Tens of Thousands Toward Summary Deportation Sasha Abramsky, Truthout The Supreme Court's decision on Trump's asylum restrictions inaugurates a horrifying new era in U.S. immigration policy. Huge numbers of people who entered the United States from Mexico and filed asylum claims in the period after the regulatory change was issued in July (but before the Supreme Court allowed its provisions to kick in) will now be subject to summary deportation.
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Saudi Oil Refinery Attack Raises Fears of "Wider Regional War" Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! President Trump is threatening to take military action after several large Saudi Arabian oil facilities were attacked Saturday by drones and cruise missiles. Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack. While the United States has been quick to blame Iran, other world powers have not yet assigned blame.
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Would Trump Try to Manipulate Economic Data Before the Election? Dean Baker, Truthout We have to think seriously about the possibility that Trump will manipulate economic data in order to improve his election chances. Given his manufactured Hurricane Dorian "projections," it is certainly plausible that Trump would try something similar with unemployment, GDP growth, wage growth and other key measures.
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It's Time for Universities to Stop Being "Neutral" About the Climate Crisis Four Arrows, Truthout College students -- along with younger students -- are playing a central role in organizing massive climate actions this week, but they largely are not receiving explicit support from school administrators. Given the magnitude of the climate crisis we are facing, it is time for university administrators to drop their policy of neutrality and throw their support behind this youth climate uprising.
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Progressives, 2020 Contenders Demand Kavanaugh Impeachment Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Progressive advocacy groups and 2020 Democratic presidential candidates led the chorus of voices demanding that House Democrats launch impeachment proceedings against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after The New York Times over the weekend published fresh details about sexual misconduct allegations against the judge and FBI failures to investigate complaints made against him prior to his confirmation.
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From Allergies to Heart Disease, Climate Crisis Is Making People Sicker Emily Holden, The Guardian The climate crisis is making people sicker -- worsening illnesses ranging from seasonal allergies to heart and lung disease. Children, pregnant people and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and rising heat. But the impact of the climate crisis -- for patients, doctors and researchers -- is already being felt across every specialty of medicine, with worse feared to come.
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The F-35 Jet Costs $1.5 Trillion -- and Our Tax Dollars Are Still Funding It William J. Astore, TomDispatch As ephemeral as the F-35 stealth fighter may prove in historical terms, it's already a classic symbol of the U.S.'s ever more fruitless forever wars. Like them, the F-35 program has proven staggeringly expensive, incredibly wasteful and impossible to stop, no matter the woeful results.
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Henry A. Giroux on How Populism Aids Fascism Kris Welch, The Talkies In this interview, public intellectual Henry A. Giroux argues against both right and left populism. He argues that populism contains a number of pathologies, including its reliance on leaders at the expense of social movements -- a dangerous tactic that depoliticizes people and turns power over in many cases to demagogues.
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In Kashmir, Lockdown Leaves People Trapped in Their Homes Suddaf Chaudry, openDemocracy On August 5, India's Hindu nationalist government unilaterally stripped Kashmir of its autonomy. Thousands of troops were drafted into the region to quell potential unrest before the announcement and dozens of political leaders were detained. Since then, Kashmir has been almost completely cut off from communication with the outside world.
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Let's Make Friday the Biggest Day of Climate Action in Global History Bill McKibben, Truthout On Friday, September 20, masses of people around the world will be walking out of their jobs, businesses and schools to demand action on the climate crisis that's threatening life on Earth. Beyond repudiating the denialism coming from the highest places, this worldwide strike will send a clear message to those in power that the zeitgeist has shifted and action is needed now. Let's make it the biggest in global history.
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As We Transition Away From Fossil Fuels, We Must Also Tackle Inequality J. Mijin Cha, Truthout The climate crisis requires an urgent transition away from fossil fuel extraction and use. Yet, even with the short timeline the climate crisis demands, we cannot repeat the injustices of the extractive economy. We must not abandon workers and communities. Smart, targeted policy can, and will, provide a just transition.
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