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News & Views | 10/21/19

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Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a Bernie's Back rally at Queensbridge Park.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"There is an America that most people believe in," said Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. "It is an ideal. It's not a reality yet."

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High school protesters in Chile demonstrate at subways against a fare hike. The movement has exploded in recent days.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Something's not right with this country and 14-year-olds were the first ones to say so—now it's workers' turn to say enough is enough."


A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) worker screens passengers and airport employees at O'Hare International Airport on January 07, 2019 in Chicago.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The lawsuit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of four U.S. citizens.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is part of an avowed war on whistleblowers to include investigative journalists and publishers."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Two days after intense pressure forced President Donald Trump to back down from his plan to host the 2020 G7 summit at his resort in Doral, Florida, the president dismissed the Constitution's anti-corruption clause—which his plan would have violated—as "phony."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"To the U.S. Army who are leaving northeast Syria, tell your children that the children of the Kurds were killed by the Turks and you did nothing to protect them."


Chicago Teachers Union members

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"That's not going to happen." Alison Eichhorn, a social science teacher and softball coach at Lindblom Math and Science Academy, offered that response Monday to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's proposal that the city's unionized public school teachers end a strike that started Thursday and return to classrooms amid ongoing contract negotiations.

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Kurdish activists wears a mask of the American president Donald Trump during demonstration against the ongoing Turkish military operation in the northeastern Syria on October 19,2019 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Dutch Kurdish community demonstrated in the streets of Amsterdam to protest against the offensive launched by the army of Turkey in the region of Rovaja, Syrian Kurdistan region, the last xxxxxx against Daesh. (Photo: Paulo Amorim/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
When democracy fails, history tells us that violence and conflict usually follows.


A woman walk past prototype sections of a border wall between Mexico and the United States under construction on October 5, 2017 in Tijuana, Mexico. (Photo: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)

by Tamaryn Nelson
The Trump administration is using a wide range of cruel policies to stop people in need from seeking safety in the US.


Pete Buttigieg, aka Mayor Pete, is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Buttigieg is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020. (Photo illustration: DonkeyHotey/flickr/cc)

by Norman Solomon
With the mutual alignment of Buttigieg and his corporate healthcare-industry donors, Mayor Pete's approach seems to be a case of a flimflamming candidate who poses as a forthright leader.


Demonstrators shouted slogans outside the national assembly in Quito, Ecuador on Oct. 8, 2019 following days of protests against the sharp rise in fuel prices sparked by the government's decision to scrap subsidies. (Photo: by Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images)

by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Ecuadorian people are teaching the world a lesson: unjust power, no matter how strong, always comes with a vulnerable spot, a measure of injustice, and peaceful and organized resistance against it.



by José Antonio Ocampo
Developing countries lose at least $100 billion hidden away each year by multinationals in the world's tax havens. This must end.


A US soldier stands in an armoured personnel carrier as the US forces pull out of their base in the Northern Syrian town of Tal Tamr, on October 20, 2019. - US forces withdrew from a key base in northern Syria today, a monitor said, two days before the end of a US-brokered truce to stem a Turkish attack on Kurdish forces in the region. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
Not those in Syria and not any of the 60,000 soldiers spread across the Mideast

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