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News & Views | 10/18/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The president is talking about genocidal slaughter and hundreds of thousands of war victims like it's a playground squabble."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Multiple large trades, resulting in billions in profit, occurred shortly before geopolitical events or statements by the president of the United States that moved the markets significantly."


Hillary Clinton at Barnes and Noble bookstore on October 03, 2019 in New York City.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's past time to give the American people the real debate they deserved in 2016."


A volunteer carries an injured youth to a hospital following a bomb blast in Haska Mina district of Nangarhar Province on October 18, 2019.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Civilian casualties are totally unacceptable, especially in the context of the widespread recognition that there can be no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan."


CEO Mark Zuckerberg

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Amid the ongoing debate over Facebook's policy of exempting political advertising from its "misinformation" standards, a "defiant" speech on free expression delivered Thursday by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has elevated broader concerns about how powerful tech giants are "poisoning the well of our democracy."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Everyone can relate to the annoyance of a delayed commute, but the people who suffer the worst consequences are society's most vulnerable."


Carrying hammers and baby bottles of their own blood, the seven individuals pictures are those who "attempted to convert weapons of mass destruction" after they made their way onto the US Submarine Base in Kings Bay, Georgia on Wednesday night.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The sign they displayed during their action on the base—'The Ultimate Logic of Trident is Omnicide'—is exactly right."

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Kurdish Syrian civilians flee the town of Kobane on the Turkish border on October 16, 2019 as Turkey and its allies continue their assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria. - Turkey rebuffed international pressure to curb its military offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria today as US President Donald Trump dispatched his deputy Mike Pence to Ankara to demand a ceasefire. (Photo: Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies
Despite his endless promises to end these wars, Trump has instead been dropping more bombs and missiles on other countries than Bush II and Obama put together—a terrifying feat.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump makes an appearance prior to the start of play during the final round of the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral Blue Monster Course on March 6, 2016 in Doral, Florida. (Photo: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

by Robert Weissman
This is a president who believes the powers of the presidency are bestowed on him to advance his own personal interests—political and profit-seeking—rather than those of the American people.


Sanders has been calling himself a socialist for decades, and he most recently distinguished himself from Warren’s self-proclaimed capitalist label in an interview. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
Do progressives want the candidate who may be feeling pressured to move to the left or the person whose candidacy is setting the progressive standard?


The Green New Deal may come to embody a future more humane and liberating than what its ancestor imagined possible. (Photo: Peg Hunter/flickr/cc)

by Steve Fraser
The great depression and the climate crisis, new deals then and now.


The national security state and politicians should not be the sole gatekeepers of what information circulates in the public sphere. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Hannah Gurman, Kaeten Mistry
This moment should spark a conversation about the place of national security whistleblowing in a democratic society.


U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle sits after shortly landing Nov. 12, 2015, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Cory W. Bush)

by Brian Terrell
There is no lie that can cover the black eye of US complicity in genocide.

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