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News & Views | 11/26/19

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Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) presides over a mark-up hearing where members may vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for not providing an unredacted copy of special prosecutor Robert Mueller's report.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The President has a choice to make: he can take this opportunity to be represented in the impeachment hearings, or he can stop complaining about the process."

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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Privacy advocates on Tuesday welcomed broad new legislation introduced by leading Senate Democrats that aims to codify digital privacy rights, outlaw harmful data practices, and create new enforcement and accountability measures to protect online consumers.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"From lofty heights, Obama has now become a dampener of hope, a barrier to change, and a threat to progress."


Oil pumps in California

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
An annual United Nations report published Tuesday on current and estimated future greenhouse gas emissions shows the "urgent need for supply-side action" to combat the climate emergency, according to the advocacy group Food & Water Action.


The wealth of the 400 richest Americans doubled in the last decade.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Here's the thing: the way the system is set up, we're headed for another decade of this."


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
From patients and doctors to politicians and their staffers, advocates of Medicare for All reiterated their commitment to radically transforming the U.S. healthcare system in response to a Politico report Monday about how top health industry lobbies "have joined forces to take down socialized medicine."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If your president husband calls the city 'a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess' where 'no human being would want to live' and then you hold an 'anti-bullying' event there, on behalf of the White House, honestly, what do you expect?"


Protestors unfurl anti-Amazon banners from the balcony of a hearing room during a New York City Council Finance Committee on January 30, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's time for Amazon to come of age and pay its own way."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Tech industry labor organizers and rights advocates pledged solidarity on Tuesday with four Google employees who were reportedly fired for organizing their workplace against the company's complicity in human rights violations as well as its unjust policies.


Former National security adviser John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence before the start of a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House June 7, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Donald Trump," responded one sarcastic critic, "famed for his consideration of other Presidents.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Failure to heed these warnings and take drastic action to reverse emissions means we will continue to witness deadly and catastrophic heatwaves, storms, and pollution."

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Americans have also paid dearly for these wars: $6.4 trillion, plus significant losses of life and limb. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Peter Certo
Hard data shows ending our wars would be smart politics—and the first step toward repairing a moral calamity.


The shambling body of that president of ours—thanks to a set of media decisions about what truly draws eyeballs on this planet—simply blocks out much of the rest of the world, everything but HIM and anything or anyone faintly relevant to or associated with or ready to attack him and his strange imperial solar system. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

by Tom Engelhardt
What does the Trump phenomenon really represent? And far more important, what lurks behind all the attention paid to him (other, of course, than a climate-changed planet)?


Despite the severe repression, on October 25, 2019, 1.2 million people marched in Santiago, representing diverse sectors of Chilean society including social movements, Indigenous people, women, retired people, unions, students and more. (Photo: Rodrigo Arangua/AFP/Getty Images)

by Alison Bodine
Today in Chile the working class and oppressed people are under brutal attack, economically, politically and socially, by the Sebastian Piñera government and imperialist exploitation.


It was an actual political victory, and those don’t happen very often. (Photo: Dana Shurholz)

by Jim Page
People say, "Why do you sing political songs?" And I say that’s the wrong question. The correct question is, "Why don’t you sing political songs?"


Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during an event to introduce Sen. Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Act of 2017 on Capitol Hill on Sept. 13, 2017. (Photo: Yuri Gripas/Reuters)

by Ady Barkan, Bonnie Castillo
Two prominent single-payer activists—one who backs Elizabeth Warren and another who back Bernie Sanders—explain why winning Medicare for All us going to be one epic battle.


In a world where it’s fun to hate billionaires, a money-maker who gives to nice causes, hates guns and supports environmentalism is the person who can give capitalism a good name again. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Ari Paul
If the media are going to celebrate Bloomberg’s achievements as a private and public executive, they need to address his baggage in those roles as well.

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