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News & Views | 8/30/21

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by Jon Queally
"Ending wars is good actually," said Congresswoman Ilhan Omar after Pentagon announced final military plane had departed from Kabul.

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by Jessica Corbett
"What more do politicians need to realize that the climate crisis is here and killing us?"



by Kenny Stancil
"The department will fight to protect every student's right to access in-person learning safely and the rights of local educators to put in place policies that allow all students to return to the classroom full-time in-person safely this fall."



by Jake Johnson
"The U.S. went into Afghanistan seeking revenge and bombing civilians. Twenty years later, the U.S. is leaving Afghanistan seeking revenge and bombing civilians."


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by Jessica Corbett
Over 50 lawmakers argue the "harmful and wasteful" giveaways "simply enhance the profits" of polluters while harming U.S. taxpayers, industry workers, racial justice, and the planet.



by Jake Johnson
"The September 14 recall of Governor Newsom is a bold-faced Republican power grab. Don't let it happen."



by Kenny Stancil
Policymakers, said one human rights advocate, should devise "concrete plans for helping Afghans reach safety in the E.U."



by Jake Johnson
"The American aircraft targeted us," said Samim Shahyad, whose father, brothers, and cousins were killed in the U.S. attack.



by Jake Johnson
"The dystopian horrors we're all witnessing are only going to get worse if we keep extracting and burning fossil fuels."


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by David Bacon
The U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should force a reckoning with a long history of military intervention.



by Ben Phillips, Jonathan Glennie
There are people who hope to invade Iran, or Venezuela, or pick-a-country-with-a-problem, but next time, they insist, they'll do it "better." They must stop. They must be stopped.



by Marina Favaro, Sara Z. Kutchesfahani
It is now more important than ever to anticipate what the future might hold due to the uncertainty surrounding tomorrow's strategic environment.



by Chris Hedges
The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan.



by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
The U.S. can either stumble on in its fruitless attempt to control the world through militarism and coercion, or it can use this opportunity to rethink its place in the world.



by Sarah Jones
A Wisconsin school district's decision exemplified the "mean" in means-testing.


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