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News & Views | 10/17/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Mulvaney just straight up admitted that this administration sees no difference between using U.S. aid to advance national policy goals and using it to advance Trump's personal political goals."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The Institute for Policy Studies on Thursday shared the result of extensive research into how the $750 billion U.S. military budget could be significantly slashed, freeing up hundreds of billions of dollars per year to cover the cost of Medicare for All—calling into question the notion that the program needs to create any tax burden whatsoever for working families.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Joe must know that we currently spend twice as much per capita on healthcare as the people of almost any other major country and that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs."



In this photo illustration, a smartphone displays the Walmart Inc. market value on the stock exchange via the Yahoo Finance app.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The biggest American companies are clearly making enough profit to spend these record amounts giving raises to their shareholders via stock buybacks, and yet average workers aren't getting any raises."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Biden's attack comes as he is falling in the polls and being heavily outraised by his more progressive 2020 rivals



 A Trump National Doral sign

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
President Donald Trump came under fire from ethics watchdog groups, Democratic lawmakers, and other critics Thursday after Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney confirmed to reporters that the president will host the Group of 7 meeting next June at the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort in Florida.




by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Human rights and free speech advocates responded with alarm Thursday to a Guardian report revealing that pro-Israel and right-wing lobbyists are encouraging Republican state lawmakers to pass legislation that could outlaw discussions about the Israeli government's human rights abuses and occupation of Palestinian territory at all levels of the U.S. public education system under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism.


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The author, Nathan Williams, is removed by police as climate change action group Extinction Rebellion staged a protest at London City Airport during the fourth day of demonstrations on October 10, 2019 in London, England. Climate change activists have gathered to block access to various government departments as they launch a two week protest in central London. (Photo: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

by Nathan Williams
I was arrested at London City Airport because only a mass uprising in defence of life can counter mass death



No nation on earth can afford the catastrophic regional and global consequences of any use of nuclear weapons. (Photo: A B53 nuclear bomb at the Pantex facility in Texas/NNSA/flickr/cc)

by Olivia Alperstein
A new study shows just how bad a nuclear war could get. We need a plan to eliminate this risk permanently.



Trump talks a whole lot about endless wars but doesn’t do anything about them. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by John Feffer
Trump’s not bringing the troops home. He’s been haphazardly deploying more troops, drones, and dollars abroad, while waging a shadow foreign policy for his own benefit.



Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) raise their hands during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University's Health and PE Center on September 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by John Atcheson
And if the party nominates another centrist candidate, they will likely lose again.



Democratic presidential hopefuls California Senator Kamala Harris (L) and former Vice President Joe Biden (R) applaud Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders during the fourth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by The New York Times and CNN at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio on October 15, 2019. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

by Donna Smith
It will be nice when all of the candidates stop lying about how badly we Americans want to keep our private coverage. Are you kidding?



Considering that Pompeo is widely known as both a war hawk—a proponent of war with Iran—and an ally of blatant Islamophobes, his declaration of service to a perfect God is definitely troubling. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
Where are the values—religious or otherwise—that can save this recklessly careening, war-addicted, carbon-spewing state from participating both in its own and the whole planet's destruction?


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