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News & Views | 12/4/19

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"When it came to tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump felt the nation's finances were firm enough to give up more than $1,500,000,000,000. When it's time to spend a fraction of that to help poor people eat, that's when the well has supposedly run dry."

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Progressives and supporters of the tuition-free public college plans backed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday denounced Mayor Pete Buttigieg's most recent attack on the proposals, in which the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate claimed offering a free public college education furthered an "elitist" worldview.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"A candidate for president should resist foreign interference in our elections, not demand it. If we are to keep faith with the Constitution and our Republic, President Trump must be held to account."


Sarah Pitlyk (R) is seen with other former law clerks for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at an event at the Heritage Foundation on August 9, 2018.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Appalling."


Migrants queue to receive aid distributed by Turkish Red Crescent at the camp 'Vucjak' near Bihac in Bosnia and Herzegovina on November 21, 2019. More than 700 irregular migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and other countries continue their lives in makeshift tents, located 15 kilometers from the Croatian border. Turkish Red Crescent distributed sweaters, blankets, sleeping-bags, toothpastes and towels. (Photo: Kayhan Gul/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
The conditions of the refugee camp are being decried as "not for human beings" as officials demanded immediate relief for those languishing there.


London company management firm Formations House was the subject of a massive leak that journalists began reporting on Wednesday.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's hard to overstate how notorious and suspicious the firm is."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Hugely incriminating" was how one commentator described the previously undisclosed call records.


Advocates hold signs at the second-ever congressional hearing on Medicare for All. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The Washington Democrat called the development "proof of the historic momentum we have in our fight to ensure quality, affordable healthcare for everyone."


Trayvon Martin (left) was killed by George Zimmerman (right) in 2012. Zimmerman is suing Martin's family.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Imagine killing an unarmed child and then suing his parents."


"The fossil fuel industry must take full responsibility for the climate change crisis."

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"For decades, big polluters have gone to any lengths to block, weaken, and delay policy. That time is over."


In a new poll released by Amnesty International, 71% of respondents expressed fear over how Big Tech is taking and using their personal data.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"People want to see an end to tech companies trampling over our right to privacy."

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If a president can get away with obstructing an inquiry, he can avoid accountability. If that prospect exists for a president, any president, then the system of checks and balances collapses. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by John Nichols
This is about the specifics of a constitution that can only work if the president cooperates with congressional investigations.


Trump-style politics, and particularly American-style privatized healthcare, are the bogeymen of the U.K. election. (Photo: The Progressive)

by Sarah Jaffe
Across the political spectrum, the British are clear: American-style health care is a terrible idea.


Our media is owned and operated by the largest, most aggressive corporations in the world leaving little to no room on the air for the anti-war activists offering free hugs and senseless acts of kindness. But that’s why it’s all the more impressive that in so many areas, we are winning the seemingly endless battle for the mindscape of our country.(Photo: Shutterstock)

by Lee Camp
Simply take a look at the ideas that are dominating the Democratic presidential race, even though the corporate media has tried to ignore these solutions, attack them, dispute them, and then ignore them all over again.


A group of Syrian refugees arrives on the island of Lesbos after traveling in an inflatable raft from Turkey near Skala Sikaminias, Greece on July 15, 2015. (Photo: UNHCR/Andrew McConnell)

by Gwyneth Bernier
If floods and wildfires can take lives as surely as bombs and bullets, why has the United States adamantly denied entrance to climate refugees?


Sanders’ commitment to worldwide leftism was apparent even before he announced his second run for president. (Photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

by Ilana Novick
Sanders’ support for international far-left leaders, Politico explains, "are a clear mark of distinction from Warren in a race in which their domestic agendas are viewed as very similar."


We were part of the People’s Global Action network, which came out of a series of Zapatista-initiated “Encuentro” gatherings. We used the phrase, “Our resistance will be as transnational as capital.” (Photo: David Solnit)

by David Solnit
There is an incredible opportunity to use street theater—art, dance, music, giant puppets, graffiti art and theater—and nonviolent direct action to simplify and dramatize the issues of corporate globalization and to develop and spread new and creative forms of resistance.

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