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News & Views | 9/23/19

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Greta Thunberg speaks during the UN Climate Action Summit on September 23, 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Entire ecosytems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money."

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house on fire

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The environmental group Stand.earth announced on Monday that 530 organizations have signed on to the Lofoten Declaration, which calls for rapidly phasing out fossil fuels on a global scale and transitioning to clean energy, as world leaders and activists gathered in New York City for the United Nations Climate Action Summit.


Afghan villagers sit on the back of a vehicle carrying dead bodies to a hospital following an airstrike, in Lashkar Gah the capital of Helmand province on September 23, 2019.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Don't kill us," said one local who survived the recent bombing in Helmand province.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The climate crisis is a children's rights crisis."


The Greenland ice sheet may melt at a pace that could break records set in 2012 this year as a heatwave from Europe turns north.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The new U.N. report referencing increasing impacts of the climate crisis underscores the need for urgent action.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"At this point, the bigger national scandal isn't the president's lawbreaking behavior—it is the Democratic Party's refusal to impeach him for it."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's not just abortion that they care about, they care about women's ability to exercise autonomy over their bodies and about denying them critical access to the services they need."

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by Patti Lynn, Nnimmo Bassey, & Lidy Nacpil
The industries that have fueled this crisis should have no part in dictating the solutions—rather, they should be made to pay to address the massive damages they have caused and to finance real solutions to the crisis.


From left, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calf., Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., conduct a news conference on the testimony of former special counsel Robert Mueller on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

by Jeff Hauser, Max Moran
Make no mistake: Democratic cowardice toward oversight has real, "kitchen-table" consequences for voters.


A supporter of the former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva holds a flag during a national strike protest called by unions and students against the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's pension reform in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 14, 2019. (Photo: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images)

by Celso Amorim
For normalcy to return to Brazil and for hope to be recovered, Lula's freedom—along with annulment of the faulty process by which he was condemned—is essential.


President Donald J. Trump leaves after speaking to supporters at the Atlantic Aviation Hanger on March 10, 2018 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The president made a visit in a bid to gain support for Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone who is running for 18th Congressional District in a seat vacated by Tim Murphy. (Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

by Jeffrey C. Isaac
Biden's disingenuousness is no match for Trump


The ruling elites and the corporations they serve are the principal obstacles to change. (Photo: Mr. Fish)

by Chris Hedges
We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.


Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden works the grill at the Polk County Democrats' Steak Fry on September 21, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. Seventeen of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates and more than 12,000 of their supporters made an appearance at the event. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Jeff Cohen
As a throwback to the Clintonite 1990s, Biden says he feels the pain of victims but won’t name many villains. That approach no longer works—and actually plays into the hands of demagogues like Trump.

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