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News & Views | 11/18/19

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced the U.S. is reversing course on decades of nominal opposition to Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"How the hell is it possible for the U.S. policy to be any softer?"

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks during the 2019 J Street National Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on October 28, 2019.

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.



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.



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."


A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.

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."


A fire burns trees next to grazing land in the Amazon basin in Ze Doca, Brazil. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"These figures confirm what we feared, namely that 2019 has been a dark year for the rainforest in Brazil."



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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An Exxon sign in Framingham, MA.

by Tamara Toles O'Laughlin, Bill McKibben
Climate change disproportionately affects poor people and people of color. They should be compensated for their suffering.


An Extinction Rebellion protester holds up a placard saying "Divest from climate change" on October 14, 2019 in London, England.

by Andy Rowell
Other banks must now follow.


A banner is hung across a roadway while people participate in direct action with Extinction Rebellion on April 17, 2019 in New York City.

by Chris Hedges
We must reduce carbon emissions by 40% in the next 12 years to have a 50% chance of avoiding catastrophe.


Inside the empty counter-summit.

by Nandini Archer, Claire Provost
Conservative protests against global development conference in Kenya fail to draw crowds, or derail commitments.



by William Hartung
The 50-year history of U.S. dominance of the Middle Eastern arms trade


A close-up of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

by Janine Jackson
Absent in media coverage of Veterans Day was discussion of the way to honor veteran.

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