A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis

Browser View | 12/3/19

Common Dreams

We're running out of time to hit our $10,000 #GivingTuesday goal. Our news team works tirelessly to bring you the news that matters. But none of it is possible without the support of readers like you. There's only a few hours left.

Can you help us meet our #GivingTuesday goal?

Yes! I will support this work

News & Views | 12/3/19

Feature...


A Briton is shocked at the cost of an ambulance ride in the U.S.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The cost of American healthcare is literally unimaginable to most British people."

News...



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
It was like watching "manufacturing consent in action,' said Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson.



Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Ranking Member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) listen to Gordon Sondland, the U.S ambassador to the European Union, testify before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 20, 2019 in Washington, DC.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) tweeted in response to the report that "the House Judiciary Committee should accept the Intelligence Committee report and immediately start drawing up articles of impeachment."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The program's become less progressive," said Jim Roosevelt, a former Social Security Administration official and grandson of FDR.


Common Dreams is fueled by readers, like you. We can’t fall short -- our survival depends on it. Make sure Common Dreams keeps bringing you the news that matters -- please pitch in today.

I Believe in Common Dreams

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
With only about two months left before Iowa's first-in-the-nation 2020 caucuses, the political arm of the state's largest grassroots progressive group endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination on Monday.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
As the decade comes to a close, the world's top climate scientists warned Tuesday that policymakers' continued failure to curb the warming of the planet could lead to a global temperature increase of 5° Celsius by the end of the century, putting the world "nowhere near on track" to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.



According to CNN, the contract issued on Monday is the Navy's "most expensive shipbuilding contract ever" and was awarded to weapons maker General Dynamics Electric Boat and subcontractors.  (Photo: U.S. Navy/General Dynamics Electric Boat)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"$22 billion could fund a lot of kids learning," said Albert Lee, a Democrat running for Congress in Oregon. "We need an education race; not a wasted arms race."



Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speaks during a news conference with fellow Democrats at the U.S. Capitol October 25, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Harris leaves the race after failing to gain traction with voters.



Border Patrol agents detain a 14-year-old boy

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Critics of the Trump administration's immigration policies raised alarm Tuesday over a so-called "surge" of park rangers that the Interior Department is deploying to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border as House Democrats refuse to fund President Donald Trump's long-promised border wall.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
With many of their former colleagues standing with them, four recently-fired Google employees on Tuesday announced they would file charges against the company with federal government's top labor agency, claiming Google illegally fired them from organizing their workplace.



Greta Thunberg

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After three weeks of sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Spain, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived Tuesday in neighboring Portugal, where she was welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd of supporters.


More News

Views...


The result of this corporate omnipresence is clear—the negotiations move at a snail’s pace and more often than not reflect the interests of global corporations, not people and the planet. (Photo: UN Climate Change/Twitter)

by Erika González
Whether it’s subsidies or the global response to this crisis, around the world, the influence of industries like the fossil fuel industry continues to hamper our policymaking to face the ecological and climate crisis.



It’s too late to turn back the page to the soft, centrist, consensus politics of the era before Trump. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

by Ruth Conniff
To insist that not coming on too strong is what’s needed in 2020 is to miss the whole lesson of the rightwing populist rise of Trump.




by Danny Sjursen
Collective delusion—reflected in the populist, rightward, authoritarian global political wave—might just spell the end of organized human life on this planet.



"On a day-to-day basis, the impacts of climate change play out through extreme and "abnormal" weather. (Photo: U.S. Forest Service)

by Emily Beament
The past decade, from 2010 to 2019, has almost certainly been the warmest in records dating back to the 19th century.



RESIST Banner 1999 (Photo: Dang Ngo: ZUMA Press)

by Jeff Crosby
This is a period when on certain issues, massive, non-violent direct action is in order, as the demonstration in Seattle shows.



By the time the campaign was over, Raqqa, like a number of other Syrian and Iraqi cities, was in almost complete ruins (Photo: Youtube Screenshot/Gabriel Chaim)

by Arnold R. Isaacs
A legacy of a new kind of war.


More Views

Newswire...

More Newswire...

Share this newsletter with a friend
Donate

Call 207.775.0488 to donate by phone or mail a check to:
Common Dreams, PO Box 443, Portland, ME 04112, USA

Common Dreams is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 20-3368194 | Unsubscribe