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News & Views | 9/27/19

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by Common Dreams staff
The chairmen of three U.S. House committees subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday for documents related to President Donald Trump's interaction with Ukraine's president.

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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The momentum is on our side and we are not going anywhere."


People wait to be rescued from their flooded homes

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
New research first reported on Friday by The New York Times suggests banks are shifting mortgages made riskier by the climate emergency over to financial institutions backed by U.S. taxpayers—findings that "echo the subprime lending crisis of 2008, when unexpected drops in home values cascaded through the economy and triggered recession."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Mnuchin's empty promise shows just how much the 2017 tax cuts for the rich were a scam on the American people."


Students attend the Fridays for Future march in Rome to protest against the climate crisis on September 27, 2019.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
In cities from Auckland to Rome to New Delhi, young people demand urgent action on the climate crisis.


United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on January 23, 2019 in Davos, eastern Switzerland.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It moves the world dangerously towards a privatized and undemocratic global governance."


Rudy Giuliani outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"If I get killed now, you won't get the rest of the story."

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School students, Local Citizens, Environmental Activists shout slogans as they participate in a global climate strike to protest against governmental inaction towards climate breakdown and environmental pollution, part of demonstrations being held worldwide in a movement dubbed "Fridays for Future", Kolkata, India, September 27, 2019. (Photo: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Margaret Klein Salamon
The climate crisis is an unprecedented emergency. How we react to the climate crisis will shape centuries and millennia to come.


A scene from New York City's Global Climate Strike. (Michael Nigro / Truthdig)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
Children not only have the scientific facts on their side, but the moral clarity to demand change.


Trump has been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by at least 24 women. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
"At some point, we have to stand up to him and let him know that the line has been drawn, and you will go no further."



by Trevor Timm
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have consistently demonized people who share information with the press and public.


Trump's flailing, incompetent White House emerges quite naturally from basic aspects of Trump's personality—his vanity, his ignorance, his sloppiness, his cowardice, and above all his all-consuming narcissism. (Photo: Illustrated | SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images, JimLarkin/iStock, DickDuerrstein/iStock)

by Ryan Cooper
He is not some omnipotent political mastermind. Attacks on his integrity, competence, appearance, or anything else that he's sensitive about will drive him nuts and sow chaos in his administration.


Revolving-door hires and former defense executives in government remain a powerful force for the status quo in Pentagon spending. (Photo: Master Sgt. Ken Hammond / U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons)

by William Hartung, Mandy Smithberger
A trillion-dollar future Pentagon budget?

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