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News & Views | 12/5/19

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Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant, was seriously ill when immigration agents put him in a small South Texas holding cell with another sick boy on the afternoon of May 19. By the next morning, he was dead. (Photo: via Facebook)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Contrary to claims by Border Patrol, "they didn't take him to the hospital. They didn't release him. They didn't even seem to check on him as he was dying on the floor of his cell."

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Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden greets guests during a campaign stop at the Water's Edge Nature Center on December 2, 2019 in Algona, Iowa.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Might I recommend Bernie Sanders: the climate candidate," responds Vermont senator's press secretary.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump ran on ending these endless wars. But he's sending more troops to the Middle East, making yet another war there more likely."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The government simply has no legitimate interest in collecting this kind of sensitive information on this immense scale, and the First Amendment doesn't permit it to do so."


President Donald Trump holds up a chart during a rally in Palm City Beach, Florida on May 9, 2019. (Photo: AP)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Meanwhile, the democratic-socialist Nordic countries of Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden enjoy the top spots in detailed survey of OECD nations.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We are convinced that, as the time of possible impeachment approaches, Donald Trump has the real potential to become ever more dangerous."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Normally the rich are moderately more subtle about rigging the system in their favor. They're scared."


A protester holds a flare as public and private workers demonstrate and shout slogans during a mass strike against pension reforms on December 05, 2019 in Marseille, France. France has drawn up emergency plans for a major strike against pension reforms, which is one of the biggest challenges in President Macron's far-reaching reform. (Photo: Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We have one of the best pension systems in the world, if not the best. Yet the president has decided, purely out of ideology, to wipe it out."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The youth-led Sunrise Movement unveiled scorecards for the top three Democratic primary candidates on Thursday, announcing that Sen. Bernie Sanders ranks as the candidate who has most successfully framed the Green New Deal as a top national priority and has provided the most details for how he would reduce planet-warming fossil fuel emissions.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
In latest #BernieBlackout example, Sanders' deputy campaign manager notes it took major newspaper "three paragraphs to mention who is leading."


Environmental activist Diane Wilson on Tuesday saw a settlement reached with Formosa Plastics approved by a federal judge, clearing the way for $50 million in cleanup for Lavaca Bay in Texas.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The settlement funds will go to environmental projects and cleanup efforts in the Gulf Coast region.

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In Trump, the party seems to be committed not to principles, but to a man who defies the rule of law and is disorder personified. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Rebecca Gordon
Fruits of the twin roots of evil: Slavery and imperial expansion.


Professor Jonathan Turley testifies before the House Judiciary Committee about Impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol December 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Hank Edson
We don’t need Professor Turley’s hand-wringing performance to scare us away from defending our democracy through the exercise of our political power to hold an oligarchic authoritarian accountable.


By 2006, at least 100 prisoners had died in US custody in Afghanistan and Iraq, most of them violently, according to government data. (Photo: US torture Image by Witness Against Torture)

by Brett Wilkins
The current hearing will examine allegations that US troops and intelligence operatives tortured, raped and abused Afghan prisoners between 2003 and 2004.


The incoherent discourses of Devin Nunes and Rudy Giuliani didn’t come out of nowhere, nor are they purely a sign of obedience to Trump. They had been germinating for ages in what was once called, without irony, the Party of Ideas. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty)

by Mike Lofgren
Lunatic conspiracy theories are the heart and soul of today’s GOP.


The new right has set about reordering the political landscape. Mainstream parties have lost credibility. Politics have become even more polarized. Not just liberalism but democracy itself is under attack. (Photo: The Battle for Another World / Institute for Policy Studies)

by John Feffer
Understanding how the new right went global—and how to stop it—is key to keeping our planet habitable.


It is exceptionally rare for a film to show US personnel torturing their captives, and the film-makers are to be commended for their courage. (Photo: Screengrab)

by Clive Stafford Smith
This important film shines a light on an important story in recent history: the torture of detainees kept as forever prisoners in Gitmo.

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