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News & Views | 12/2/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We are taking on the big-money interests who have an army of lobbyists trying to defeat Medicare for All."

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Young climate activists protest carbon markets at the UNFCCC negotiations in Bonn in 2012.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Now is not the time to offer an escape route to polluting Northern country governments and big oil."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Government watchdogs on Monday called for Rep. Duncan Hunter's immediate resignation after it was reported that the California Republican would change his "not guilty" plea to "guilty" in the case of his alleged campaign finance violations.


President-elect Donald J. Trump and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi smile for a photo during the 58th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2017.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Grinding my teeth so hard they snap off at the roots."


Amazon

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix have collectively dodged over $100 billion in global taxes so far this decade, according to an analysis released Monday by a U.K.-based tax transparency campaign group.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"People are taking to the streets across the globe to demand urgent climate action. If politicians ignore their pleas, more people will die, more people will go hungry, and more people will be forced from their homes."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"No one can escape this challenge by themselves. There is no wall that can protect any country, regardless of how powerful it is."


Chilean child protesters told hip-hop collective Rebel Diaz on Sunday about their reasons for participation in the country's protest movement.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The gas, said one, "doesn't allow us to breathe, so we're only feeling so-so."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If he has a defense, we on House Judiciary—along with the American people—are eager to hear it," said. Rep. Pramila Jayapal.


With an image of himself on a screen in the background, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 23, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"No better example of Facebook's power than Zuckerberg being asked here whether Trump lobbied him, rather than whether he lobbied Trump."


United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
On the eve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres decried the "utterly inadequate" efforts of governments to curb planet-heating emissions and called for "a clear demonstration of increased ambition and commitment" from world leaders to tackle the crisis.

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Democratic presidential hopefuls Mayor of South Bend Pete Buttigieg, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders participate in the fifth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia on November 20, 2019. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
The mainline media are generally quite warm toward so-called "moderates," without bothering to question what's so moderate about such positions as bowing to corporate plunder, backing rampant militarism and refusing to seriously confront the climate emergency.


Antio-NATO protesters in Newport, Wales in 2014. (Photo: Andy Davies/@adavies4)

by Medea Benjamin
In an age where people around the world want to avoid war and to focus instead on the climate chaos that threatens future life on earth, NATO is an anachronism.


The two of them have degraded and corrupted American democracy. We need them both out. (Photo: Screenshot)

by Robert Reich
Even if Trump is gone, if the Senate remains in Republican hands and McConnell is reelected, America loses because McConnell will still have a chokehold on our democracy.


"For a select few, war pays dividends in ways that peace doesn't," writes Astore. "In a nutshell, or perhaps an artillery shell, war is anti-democratic, anti-progressive, anti-intellectual, and anti-human." (Photo: Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images)

by William Astore
On the many abuses of executing endless war on a finite planet


The leaked documents suggest that there could be no limitations on the export of data, potentially applying even in sensitive areas such as health data. (Photo: Yuri Samoilov/Flickr, CC 2.0)

by Laura Bannister, Ruth Bergan
Leaked records of US-UK trade negotiations suggest the US is targeting our digital rights—and the UK seems alarmingly willing to play ball.


Our anti-capitalist struggle is also a decolonial, anti-patriarchal and anti-racist struggle.

by Coalition of Climate Justice Movements
A declaration on climate crisis, energy transition and extractivism in Latin America.

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