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'There Is No More Two-State Solution': Trump Administration to Further Soften Opposition to West Bank Settlements
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"How the hell is it possible for the U.S. policy to be any softer?"
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Trump 'Pandering to His Extremist Base' on Israeli Settlements, Says Bernie Sanders
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Sanders was one of a number of critics who saw the Monday announcement
that the White House won't treat the settlements as illegal as another
attack on the Palestinian people.
'Time Is Up': Campaigners Occupy Pelosi's Office, Launch Global Hunger Strike for Climate Action
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
The global grassroots movement Extinction Rebellion is resorting to a
hunger strike Monday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as its primary
target in the United States, demanding that the Democratic leader
embrace bold climate action as progressive lawmakers have.
House Impeachment Investigators Probing Whether Trump Lied to Mueller
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The House is trying to determine whether the current president should
remain in office. This is unbelievably serious and it's happening right
now, very fast."
Trump's Child Separation Policy "Absolutely" Violated International Law Says UN Expert
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The way the Trump administration was "separating infants from their
families only in order to deter irregular migration from Central America
to the United States of America, for me, constitutes inhuman and
degrading treatment."
Fueling Concerns of Approaching Catastrophic 'Tipping Point,' Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon Hit Highest Level in Decade
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"These figures confirm what we feared, namely that 2019 has been a dark
year for the rainforest in Brazil."
Driven by Anti-Science Agenda, Trump Agencies Defying Mandate to Save Endangered Species From Climate Risk
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
A new study exposes serious gaps in the U.S. government's commitment to
fighting the effects of the climate crisis on endangered species, which
federal agencies are required by law to protect.
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Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused
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by Tamara Toles O'Laughlin, Bill McKibben
Climate change disproportionately affects poor people and people of
color. They should be compensated for their suffering.
Major Victory as EIB Ends Fossil Fuel Financing by 2021
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by Andy Rowell
Other banks must now follow.
How to Save the Planet and Ourselves
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by Chris Hedges
We must reduce carbon emissions by 40% in the next 12 years to have a
50% chance of avoiding catastrophe.
US Isolated at 'Failed' Anti-Abortion Summit in Nairobi
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by Nandini Archer, Claire Provost
Conservative protests against global development conference in Kenya
fail to draw crowds, or derail commitments.
America's Arms Sales Addiction
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by William Hartung
The 50-year history of U.S. dominance of the Middle Eastern arms trade
Missed Opportunity to Recall a Day to ‘Perpetuate Peace’
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by Janine Jackson
Absent in media coverage of Veterans Day was discussion of the way to
honor veteran.
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Conservationists Intervene in Ludicrous Effort to Dam the Little Colorado River Half a Mile from the Grand Canyon
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Tsuru for Solidarity Condemns Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) Comparison of Ongoing Impeachment Hearings to the WWII Internment of Japanese families
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President Trump's Pardons Send Message That Laws Don't Matter
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New Study in Nature Climate Change Finds Nearly All US Endangered Species Sensitive to Climate Change
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