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News & Views | 10/14/19

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A photo taken from Turkey's Sanliurfa province on October 09, 2019 shows smoke rising at the site of Ras al-Ayn city of Syria as Turkish forces began bombing northern Syria.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Trump's statement on hitting Turkey with sanctions over the military operation in Syria does not mention the Kurds once."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
A day before 12 candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates take the stage in the fourth debate of the primary, Mayor Pete Buttigieg criticized three of his opponents for their reliance on grassroots, small-dollar fundraising and bold policy proposals—despite the broad popularity of both.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and nonviolent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Doctors on Monday called on President Donald Trump to close the hundreds of detention centers where tens of thousands of immigrants are being held currently, many for months on end.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The establishment tells us there is no alternative to unfettered capitalism, that this is how the system and globalization work and there's no turning back. They are dead wrong."



CodePink activists Ariel Gold and Medea Benjamin protesting Sunday at the Kennedy Center's exhibition of former President George W. Bush's art.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Why are we celebrating the guy who took these people to war?"



Demonstrators hold signs in protest of police killings.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Black people shouldn't have to live every day with the pain of knowing we are not safe even in the comfort of own homes."


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President Donald Trump

by Jon Rainwater
Civil war and foreign interventions in Syria have created a geopolitical Gordian knot, an intractable humanitarian crisis, and a maddeningly complex conflict zone of wars within wars. It should come as no surprise that an erratic leader like President Donald Trump would make the suffering worse.




by Teresa Albano
Chicago, the City of Big Shoulders, is also the "epicenter for many of the organizations that are undermining America from within." At least that's what a far-right media activist wrote in an email published in the Chicago Tribune, after he and fellow anti-immigrant activists flew in from California to carry out a protest action. Too bad they hadn't done their homework.



Brett Kavanaugh

by Christopher Brauchli
One went up and one went down. Each enjoyed similar benefits as a result of their travels. I refer to Brett Kavanaugh and Maryanne Trump Barry.



Clayton Brascoupé holds several ears of indigenous corn.

by Gosia Wozniacka
Clayton Brascoupé has farmed in the red-brown foothills of New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains for more than 45 years. A Mohawk-Anishnaabe originally from a New York reservation, Brascoupé married into the Pueblo of Tesuque tribe and has since planted at least 60 varieties of corns, beans, squashes, and other heirloom crops grown for millennia by the area's Native Americans.



Kurdish protesters demonstrated in the northern Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn

by Juan Cole
A CNN exclusive by Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne reveals that Gen. Mazloum Kobani Abdi told the U.S., "I need to know if you are capable of protecting my people, of stopping these bombs falling on us or not. I need to know, because if you're not, I need to make a deal with Russia and the regime now and invite their planes to protect this region."



Donald Trump

by William Cohn
Indictments now point to a vast criminal conspiracy involving the personal lawyer of the sitting U.S. president and *45 to rig the 2020 election.


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