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News & Views | 12/12/19

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party had a good showing in exit polls from Thursday's general election.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Brexit just smashed us. Keeping together an electoral coalition of Remainers and Leavers as the country bitterly divided just became impossible."

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Workers and allies demanding a $15 an hour wage stage a protest outside a McDonald's restaurant.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A lengthy Bloomberg article spotlighting President Donald Trump's long affinity for McDonald's—which preceded a major decision from a federal agency that involved the fast food giant—revealed Thursday morning that thousands of previously unreported company documents and internal emails expose how "corporate executives monitored developments as managers helped orchestrate a years-long anti-union response across the U.S."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
After initially viewing South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg as an intriguing, bold outsider when he began his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign early this year, some donors on Wednesday alerted others on social media to the fact that contributors can get refunds from the campaign if they no longer support Buttigieg.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
While some labor unions and economists said the trade pact represents a meaningful improvement, others worried the deal hands Trump a victory while doing little if anything for working people and the planet.



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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In an open letter to The Lancet Planetary Health journal Wednesday, a group of scientists called for reaching "peak livestock" production and pursuing dramatic efforts to restore vegetation in the next decade to curb planet-heating emissions, increase natural carbon sequestration, and avert climate catastrophe.



Donald Trump Jr. talks to the press on March 28, 2019 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Days after killing the endangered animal, Trump Jr. was given retroactive permission for slaughtering the sheep.




by Julia Conley, staff writer
South Bend, Indiana Mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Thursday attempted to deflect a journalist's critique about his lack of support among people of his own generation by suggesting enthusiasm for Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign among young voters is representative only of 18-year-olds' feelings.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It is Orwellian for Congress to hand over billions of dollars worth of weapons and bombs to a president waging a horrific, unconstitutional war in Yemen—and call that progressive."




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"These images of people queuing to vote will scare the death out of the Tories. Get up, get out, and let's make history."



Greenpeace activists on Thursday wrap the E.U. summit venue in Brussels with images of giant flames, setting off clouds of smoke, flares and sounding a fire alarm to urge European government leaders to take immediate action to respond to the climate emergency.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The world is on fire and our governments are letting it burn."



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) hold a press conference to introduce college affordability legislation outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on June 24, 2019. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
University of Phoenix settlement with the FTC this week—in which the company admitted no actual wrongdoing—is chump change compared to Bernie's proposal to "cancel all student debt and tax Wall Street to fund tuition-free public college."


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 Sarah Prestoza and Brenda Roberts (4th and 5th individuals in the picture from Left to Right) on a CWA delegation trip to the Philippines. (Photo: Courtesy of CWA)

by Brenda Roberts, Sarah Prestoza
The only winners in this global race-to-the-bottom are corporate executives and wealthy investors.



Where do we find the awareness we need to save the planet and save ourselves? (Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty)

by Robert C. Koehler
Only with some sort of one-world consciousness can we begin stepping back from the edge of extinction.



Manuel Perez Rocha speaks on the 20th anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests.

by Manuel Pérez Rocha
Here’s what a progressive trade agenda that actually protects people and planet would actually look like.



It’s no surprise that the Journal’s editorial board published an obtuse “open letter” mocking “patriotic billionaires” who support a wealth tax, implying that they’re hypocrites for not voluntarily “writing checks” to the government instead of “waiting for legislation." (Photo: Screenshot)

by Joshua Cho
Is the Post’s dismissal of claims about the US being an "oligarchy," or their claim that private wealth being “off-limits” from taxation is "integral to any free society," mere coincidence?



The statement highlighted that this had never happened before in 25 years of negotiations, but yet, there “could be no better symbol of this crisis we face. People around the world are crying out for justice, and fighting oppression, while those in power attempt to shut us out.” (Photo: Theo C. Mouze via Twitter)

by Andy Rowell
As we enter a decade that will define all the ones after it, we need to stand together against fossil fuel companies and the governments that prop them up—at the UNFCCC and everywhere.



Demonstrators wearing masks of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson take part in a protest for keeping the National Health Service (NHS) publicly owned outside Downing Street in central London.  (Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media)

by Astra Taylor
The US healthcare machine raked in $100bn last year—and CEOs are salivating at the money they could extract from British patients.


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