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News & Views | 10/10/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"To a prosecutor's eye, this really looks increasingly like one big scheme, overseen by Trump and Giuliani, to obtain illegal assistance from Ukraine in the 2020 election."

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Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
By 2050, five billion people across the globe—disproportionately those in poorer communities—could face a higher risk of enduring coastal storms, water pollution, and crop losses linked to the human-caused climate crisis, warns a study published in the journal Science and reported on Thursday by The Scotsman.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He is the most effective possible weapon we have against Trump, and his presidency would be an opportunity for an unprecedented transformation of the political system."


Rudy Giuliani speaks to members of the media during a White House Sports and Fitness Day at the South Lawn of the White House May 30, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The House arresting someone would be explosive and clearly should not be undertaken lightly. But the very explosiveness of it would be a way for the House to signal the seriousness of White House obstructionism to the public."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman are both witnesses in House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
An estimated 500,000 people across Northern California are two days into a planned power outage which the state's largest utility, PG&E, began in an attempt to prevent wildfires like those which have spiraled out of control in recent years amid unusually dry weather—an occurrence which climate action advocates warned are already the region's "new normal."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump to the Kurds: 'Drop dead, because you didn't help us with Normandy.' Yes, really. This is real life."

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All that Trump has done since he took office is increase the number of U.S. troops that had been serving, at least initially, and most recently walk away without warning from the years-long effort to sign a peace deal with the Taliban. (Photo: Scott Nelson/Getty Images)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
"It would be better if Americans had never come here."


Not only are they reeling from protests against government corruption and austerity programs, like Ecuador and Algeria, but in both Haiti and Iraq, their corrupt neoliberal governments were imposed on them by the use of U.S. military force. (Photo: Iraqi Protesters/ AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies
It should be no surprise that the new governments installed by all these U.S. wars and coups are among the most corrupt regimes on earth.


US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, for Florida on October 3, 2019. - Trump said Thursday he would "certainly" think about approaching Chinese leader Xi Jinping to investigate the US president's domestic political rival Joe Biden. Trump told reporters at the White House Ukraine should probe the frontrunning Democratic presidential hopeful and his son, Hunter Biden -- and that China should follow suit. "Certainly -- something we can start thinking ab

by Robert Edwards
The only real shock is that it took this long for a scandal like this to come out.



by John Atcheson
As long as people keep voting for anti-government candidates they will elect people who are not interested in—or even knowledgeable about—governing. And that means things the people want, won’t get done.


Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives at the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame Dinner marching with Fight For $15 fast food workers on June 9, 2019 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by David Welch
What does Sanders' recent heart attack mean for his campaign and fitness to be president? Frankly, not much at all.


By turning these Sanders health stories into age stories, journalists drag the other older candidates into their net as well. (Photo: Headline from the Washington Post 4/9/19)

by Julie Hollar
"How old is too old" stories draw on tired prejudices that need to be challenged by reporters, not reinforced by them.

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