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News & Views | 7/24/19

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Students take part in a climate rally in Parliament Square on May 24, 2019 in London. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Our house is on fire—let's act like it," says a call-to-action for September 20th and 27th strikes.

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Shoes are left by people at the Tornillo Port of Entry near El Paso, Texas, June 21, 2018 during a protest rally against the US administration's family separation policy.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Numerous studies have demonstrated the long-term effects of adverse childhood experiences on children's developing neural networks and their physical health," one expert said of the administration's family separation policies




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It was a worthless trip, that's the way I feel," said one of the 120 coal miners who traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with the Republican leader



Blocks of C-4 detonate

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a letter to the editor published Tuesday by the journal Nature, two dozen scientists from around the world urged the United Nations' International Law Commission to adopt a Fifth Geneva Convention that creates protections for the environment in armed conflicts.  




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Israeli government has shown that it will continue to violate Palestinian human rights with impunity. This is precisely why the boycott, sanctions, and divestment movement should be protected, and not attacked."



Former Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is seen during is testimony before Congress on July 24, 2019, in Washington, DC. - Three months after releasing the final report on his probe into the 2016 election, much of the American public remains unclear about the former special counsel's findings on whether Trump criminally obstructed justice and whether his campaign colluded with Russians. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP)

by Common Dreams staff
Amid congressional testimony on Wednesday in which former special counsel Robert Mueller reiterated publicly that President Donald Trump "was not exculpated" of wrongdoing in his report, Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu of California also provided a succinct recap of why the only reason Mueller did not recommend charges against the president was because of an existing Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo stating that a sitting president could not be indicted.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"More often than not these commentators are injecting their opinion without any policy discussions," said Nina Turner, national co-chair of the Sanders campaign


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We’ve delivered our message, but will he act? (Photo: Twitter/Greenpeace)

by Flo Stuart-Leach
It will be Boris Johnson’s job to help tackle the climate emergency that’s dangerously heating our planet and threatening the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world



Their recent legislative push stands in stark contrast to repeated attempts by other members of Congress to stamp out constitutionally protected boycotts of Israel. (Photo: Erik McGregor)

by Manar Waheed, Kate Ruane
Exercising one’s right to boycott is quintessentially American, and that reminder was clearly due



Facebook is set to launch a global cryptocurrency named Libra, which is expected to come online in the first half of 2020 (Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters)

by Lorenzo Marsili
Multinational corporations are increasingly encroaching on the functions of sovereign states



Given the destructiveness of runaway climate change and rising inequality, we cannot afford to wait until the current international trade system is reformed before acting. (Photo: Shooting Chris / Flickr)

by Ethan Earle, Manuel Pérez Rocha
NAFTA 2.0 simply locks in existing drives toward ecological collapse and social inequality. A better deal would put people—and nature—first



CBC depiction (6/29/19) of Juan Guaído.

by Lucas Koerner, Ricardo Vaz
Disappointed by Guaído’s fading star, Western reporters have labored to mint new pro-Washington heroes worthy of their regime change fantasies


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