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News & Views | 5/10/21

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks to reporters following a vote at the U.S. Capitol on April 12, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"You can't be on the side of the wealthy and the powerful if you're going to really fight for working families."

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Fire billows from Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, on May 10, 2021.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The deadly strike followed Hamas rockets fired in response to Israeli forces' brutal crackdown on Palesinian protesters.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I think what we're seeing is more transmissible," said WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan.



Members of the youth-led Sunrise Movement began a 400-mile march from New Orleans to Houston on May 10, 2021. (Photo: Sunrise Movement)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We're living in constant crisis: hurricanes, superstorms, jobs that break our bodies and could be taken away at any minute. This is an emergency, but it isn't an accident."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Chevron has paid millions which they could have used to address this horrible racist dumping into the Amazon," said activist Susan Sarandon. "Instead they chose to persecute Steven."



Fuel tanks are seen at Colonial Pipeline's Linden Junction Tank Farm on May 10, 2021 in Woodbridge, New Jersey.  Colonial Pipeline was forced to shut down the largest U.S. pipeline system on Friday after a ransomware attack. (Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

by Jenna McGuire, staff writer
"One nice thing about the sun is that it is hard to take it down with a cyberattack," says activist Bill McKibben.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is utterly shameful that the U.K. remains complicit in this crisis. The prime minister must now read the writing on the wall."



A participant holding a sign at a march celebrating the defeat of President Donald Trump in Manhattan on November 7, 2020. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"It is now more urgent than ever to build a just transition away from fossil fuels and fight off attacks against protest and our freedom to vote, so that we can have a planet our communities can thrive on."



Palestinian paramedics transport a protester wounded by Israeli security forces at Lions Gate in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on May 10, 2021.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
As Israeli police wounded more than 300 Palestinians, Tlaib said U.S. lawmakers "must condition the aid we send to Israel, and end it altogether if those conditions are not followed."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
A quarter of transgender Americans have avoided seeking medical care for fear of facing discriminatory treatment.


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Israeli police use tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse Palestinians who were on guard Al-Aqsa Mosque to prevent raids by extremist Jews, in East Jerusalem on May 10, 2021. (Photo: Eyad Tawil/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Belén Fernández
Were the media concerned with speaking truth to power, the case of Sheikh Jarrah perfectly exposes the magnitude of Israeli hypocrisy and deceit.



Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-NY) next to Senator Ed Markey, D-MA, speaks during a press conference to re-introduce the Green New Deal in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on April 20, 2021. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

by C.J. Polychroniou
While the Green New Deal will decarbonize the economy, it will also be egalitarian.



A small group of demonstrators protest near Trump Tower on January 07, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. They called for the removal of President Donald Trump from office after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol building in Washington, DC yesterday as lawmakers met to count the Electoral College votes in the presidential election. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Robert Reich
Trump's big lie and all that it has provoked are still with us. If we forget what has occurred the trauma will return, perhaps in even more terrifying form.



U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Task Force 3-7 soldiers ride atop an armored vehicle during a training exercise near the Iraqi border March 13, 2003 in northern Kuwait. U.S and British forces within the region continue to poise for a possible strike on Iraq. (Photo: Scott Nelson/Getty Images)

by William Astore
On pulling the plug on the war machine.



Israeli security forces scuffle with Palestinian protesters outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on May 9, 2021. Israel vowed to restore order in Jerusalem after hundreds of Palestinian protesters were wounded in a weekend of clashes with Israeli security forces, as a key court hearing on a flashpoint property dispute was postponed. (Photo: MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
The Biden administration gives lip service to a negotiated settlement and a two state solution. But Washington has done nothing at all to prevent the gradual colonization of the Palestinian West Bank.



Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaks during a news conference with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to announce legislation that would tax the net worth of America's wealthiest individuals at the U.S. Capitol on March 01, 2021 in Washington, DC.  (Photo:Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon
If we're going to get maximum reforms in this crucial period, President Biden needs focused pressure—not the highest rating.


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