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News & Views | 10/11/19

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An RAF F-35B Lightning stealth jet, a United States Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle, and a French Air Force Rafale fly in formation over the English Channel during Operation Point Blank.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Remember when Donald Trump tweeted that he was 'trying to end the endless wars?' That was yesterday."

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Freshman Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez advocated for a Global Green New Deal to combat the climate crisis that humanity has created with an "unsustainable way of life" during a speech that closed out the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen on Friday.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is why Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo didn't want former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch to tell her story to the American people."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Immigrant rights groups applauded a federal judge's ruling on Friday which struck down President Donald Trump's proposal to put even more barriers in front of immigrants by labeling them "burdens" to the U.S. government.


American activist and actress Jane Fonda

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jane Fonda was arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building Friday as the 81-year-old activist and actress launched a new weekly civil disobedience campaign called #FireDrillFriday to pressure American policymakers to tackle the climate crisis.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
In a new study by the National Audubon Society, scientists said Thursday that saving hundreds of bird species from extinction by the end of this century is entirely possible—but that without commitment from policymakers to end human-caused global warming, two-thirds of North America's birds could be gone by 2100.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is the kind of hate rally seen in authoritarian and fascist countries," said one observer of the president's event

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Absent all the hardware bearing Made in America stickers sitting in Turkish military bases, we would probably not be fretting about what Turkey’s government was doing to the Syrian Democratic Forces. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images)

by Tom Gallagher
The Turkish military doesn’t function without the U.S. weapons industry—and the approval of the U.S. government.


A Syrian man carried a child who was retrieved from a collapsed building following a reported U.S. coalition air strike on the rebel-held neighborhood of Sakhur in the northern city of Aleppo in July 2016. (Photo: Thaer Mohammed/AFP/Getty)

by Brett Wilkins
United States military has killed more foreign civilians than any other armed force on the planet since dropping two nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945.


This combination of Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, photos provided by the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office shows booking photos of Lev Parnas, left, and Igor Fruman. The associates of Rudy Giuliani, were arrested on a four-count indictment that includes charges of conspiracy, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission and falsification of records. The men had key roles in Giuliani's efforts to launch a Ukrainian corruption investigation against Biden and his son, Hunter. (Photo: Alexandria Sheriff's Of

by Juan Cole


Trans people live in poverty at more than double the national rate—and 30 percent of us have been homeless. (Photo: shutterstock / zimmytws)

by Robin Carver
"I wasn’t hired because I am trans. And in more than half the country—twenty-nine states, in fact—that’s perfectly legal."


Officially celebrating Christopher Columbus—an Italian Catholic—became one way to affirm the new racial order that would emerge in the U.S. in the 20th century, one in which the descendants of diverse ethnic European immigrants became “white” Americans. (Photo: Light Brigading/cc/flickr)

by Malinda Maynor Lowery
The growing recognition and celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day actually represents the fruits of a concerted, decadeslong effort to recognize the role of indigenous people in the nation’s history.


There are currently 5.6 million displaced Congolese and it's estimated that 99% were made homeless due to violence. (Photo by Leon Sadiki/City Press/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

by Nick Turse
The forgotten trauma of a forgotten war.

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