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News & Views | 10/15/19

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Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney to President Donald Trump, on Tuesday ignored a subpoena from the House.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Oh! I had no idea that law was optional."

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sign: the people vs. shell

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Climate activists and experts underscored the necessity of fighting to urgently end the use of fossil fuels worldwide after Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden claimed Monday that "we have no choice" but to invest in long-term oil and gas projects.


code

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In an op-ed published Tuesday by The Guardian, American whistleblower Edward Snowden expressed alarm over global governments' efforts to undermine encryption, highlighting a recent attempt by the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia to pressure Facebook to create a "backdoor" into its encrypted messaging applications.


President of the United States Donald Trump speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The swamp is Trump hiring 281 lobbyists in just a couple years of his administration."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The truth will keep coming out. And Trump cannot stop it."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and our members will continue to push for it until we get it over the finish line."


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered his address, titled "Being a Christian Leader," to a gathering of the American Association of Christian Counselors last Friday in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo: Screengrab/State Department Website)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Department of State looks more like it should be representing the Republic of Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale than an America that respects religious equality under the law."

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Sens. Elizabeth Warren, left, and Bernie Sanders speak at the NALEO Candidate Forum in Miami, Fla., on June 21, 2019. (Photo: Joe Skipper/Getty Images)

by Robert McChesney
Basing eligibility on wealth or income level is phony progressivism and a crucial tactic promoted by the right to eliminate social welfare programs that could benefit the entire population and the common good.


With the climate strikers marching on their front feet—and the old guard caught retreating on its heels—we have a clear opportunity to achieve a true systems change. (Photo: Peg Hunter/flickr/cc)

by Yanis Varoufakis, David Adler
Having squandered the last crisis, we cannot make the same mistakes again. A Green New Deal is the only reasonable response.


We should be doing far more rehabilitation and far less incarceration. (Photo: Josh Rushing/cc/ACLU of Louisiana)

by Jesse Jackson
These are not serial murderers or rapists. They are overwhelmingly people who erred or did wrong but are not bad people.


Citizens United protest

by Kenneth Peres
It's time for a democracy movement that directly attacks systemic corruption by depending not on specific leaders but on a grassroots movement that both produces leaders and holds them accountable.


Despite Trump’s frequently voiced desire “to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home,” he may yet do more harm than his Republican predecessor. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Rebecca Gordon
Extorting Ukraine is bad enough, but the president has done much worse.


Too much profit rests in the balance for them to stop their prolonged execution of the human race. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Lee Camp
Basically, a tiny number of sociopaths make the decisions that are currently dooming us all, and as much as I’d like to tell you otherwise, those people don’t even notice if we all march outside in colorful hats.

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