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News & Views | 11/22/19

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Bolivian riot police breaks up a massive funeral procession that turned into an anti-government demonstration in La Paz on November 21, 2019. (Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin
Writing this dispatch from Bolivia, the conflict here is spiraling out of control and I fear it will only get worse.

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Two people point to a Facebook news stream

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Their insidious control of our digital lives undermines the very essence of privacy and is one of the defining human rights challenges of our era."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The military has guns and a license to kill; we have nothing. Please, tell the international community to come here and stop this."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's rally on Thursday night in Atlanta was interrupted by a group of parents protesting her stance on charter schools—but the demonstration was reportedly funded by the billionaire Walton family, which has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into privately-run schools that critics say unfairly pull money from public education.


"There is evidence that the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is increasing rapidly as a result of the combustion of fossil fuels," coal researcher James R. Garvey wrote in 1966.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It wasn't just big oil that knew about climate change decades ago."


Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Leftist former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared in an exclusive interview published Friday by The Guardian that his mission now is to "battle for democracy" against the efforts of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to "destroy" the South American country.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The former vice president also told climate activists that they "listen to Bernie too much" after they demanded he reject corporate cash.


A tree-line street in the city of Brookline, Massachusetts outside Boston. The city council this week voted overwhelmingly to approve new rules that would forbid fossil fuel infrastructure for new residential construction. (Photo: John Allspaw/flicker/cc)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Brookline is making history."


People march during a nationwide strike called by students, unions and indigenous groups to protest against the government of Colombia's President Ivan Duque in Medellin, Colombia, on November 21, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"What happened in Chile sent a forceful message."

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Trump has violated numerous campaign finance laws, including orchestrating hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush payments to individuals to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. (Photo: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Karen Hobert Flynn
This is a time for members of Congress to rise up, put country over party, and act in accordance with our American values and the oath they take.


Relatives of Antonio Ronaldo Quispe Ticona lead the procession of the victims killed during clashes with police at the Senkata fuel plant, on November 21, 2019 in La Paz, Bolivia. Police and military forces on Tuesday escorted gasoline tankers from a major fuel plant of YPFB in Senkata that had been blockaded for five days by Evo Morales' backers and at least eight people were reported killed during the operation. (Photo: Gaston Brito Miserocchi/Getty Images)

by Beverly Longid
The International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation calls for the immediate stop of killings, threats, racism and barbaric violence against our Bolivian brothers and sisters.


The Trump administration has little respect for the integrity of words, no respect for educating the public with the facts, and every intention of clouding the space between fact and fiction, certainty and uncertainty. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

by Karen Greenberg
The strategies employed in Washington to confuse and mislead the public have subtly eaten away at the country’s collective mindset, creating fertile ground for Trumpian-style lying to successfully take root.


"AARP reportedly receives a commission of 4.95% for new enrollees on top of the premiums the elderly pay for the Medigap policy from United Healthcare," writes Nader. "This money—about seven hundred million dollars a year—is a significant portion of AARP’s overall budget." (Illustration: AARP advertisement with overlay)

by Ralph Nader
Medical Dis advantage would be a more accurate name for the quasi-private programs referred to as Medicare Advantage, as insurance companies push to corporatize all of Medicare, yet keep the name for the purposes of marketing, deception, and confusion.


Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California on June 1, 2019. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr/cc)

by Miles Mogulescu
Why has Buttigieg flipped from being a putative progressive to being perhaps the most conservative, pro-corporate Democrat remaining in the field? A good place to start would be to follow the money.


MSNBC’s anti-Bernie Sanders bias was on full display in Wednesday’s Democratic debate. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Branko Marcetic
During the debate and in the spin room, Sanders was treated more like an outsider than a front runner. It’s part of a broader anti-Bernie slant in the "liberal" network’s coverage.

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