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News & Views | 1/3/20

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) attends Women's March 2019 on January 19, 2019 in New York City.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Congress now has a moral and legal obligation to reassert its power to stop this war and protect innocent people from horrific consequences."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The massive rallies discredited U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's claim that the people of Iran would "view the American action last night as giving them freedom."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Trump critics and peace advocates watched in horror Thursday night and into Friday morning as some of the top architects of the Iraq War, with the help of the corporate media, spun a narrative to retroactively convince Americans that the killing of Iranian military official Qasem Soleimani was essential to the safety of the U.S.—offering a replica of the run-up to the Iraq War nearly two decades ago.



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks at the 2019 South Carolina Democratic Party State Convention on June 22, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"As we all remember, Trump promised to end endless wars. Tragically, his actions now put us on the path to another war."



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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Top Democrats in Congress are pointing to a bombshell report published Wednesday by Just Security about unredacted emails that "tell the behind-the-scenes story of the defense and budget officials who had to carry out the president's unexplained hold on military aid to Ukraine" as the latest evidence of the need for the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate to hold a comprehensive, fair, and transparent impeachment trial.



Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks to the media on the company's sustainability efforts on September 19, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Hey @JeffBezos, which side are you on? Climate denial and delay or humanity's?"




by Julia Conley, staff writer
The first #FridaysForFuture protests of the new year and decade coincided with the 17th birthday of Greta Thunberg, who joined fellow young climate action leaders at a demonstration outside Swedish Parliament.



Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attends a news conference to introduce legislation to transform public housing as part of the Green New Deal outside the U.S. Capitol November 14, 2019 in Washington, DC.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Young people all over the world are looking to the Native American community for leadership."



A woman stands amid buildings and homes destroyed by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Scientists can now detect the "fingerprint" of human-caused climate change in global daily weather patterns, according to a groundbreaking analysis published Thursday in the journal Nature Climate Change.



President Donald Trump speaks to U.S. troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The announcement comes a day after the U.S. killed Iran's top military leader Qassem Soleimani.




by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Hawks are celebrating Soleimani's assassination not because they believe it weakened Iran...But because they believe we have passed an irreversible point of escalation."


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The time is now—we cannot allow Trump to continue to spiral out of control—life as we know it hangs in the balance. (Photo: National Priorities Project)

by Wim Laven
Millions of people need to fill the streets with the message: "Danger, danger, there’s a reckless warmonger in the White House."



Bushfires rage across the country, fuelled by record heat, and are now surging through acres of parched land dryer than ever after the worst drought in a generation.(Photo: David Gray/Getty Images)

by Katherine Trebeck
Economists used to admire scientists. Now they ignore them at our peril.



By murdering Qasem Soleimani (2nd R), the head of the Jerusalem (Qods) Brigade of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Trump has brought the United States to the brink of war with Iran. (Photo by IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Juan Cole
It is extremely suspicious that Trump has abruptly begun trafficking in the sanguinary merchandise of all-out war just at this moment when his throne is on the brink of toppling.



Lawmakers need to move before it’s too late. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Peter Certo
Trump is betraying his voters and threatening millions of lives. Call him on it before it’s too late.



Morrison views these fiery events through a prism of faith in an extractive capitalism. (Photo: Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)

by John Buell
Long term solutions requires a fundamental debate about the role of uncontrolled growth and hubristic attitudes towards nature.



As with the U.S. border wall with Mexico, Trump has been obsessed with the idea of creating Space Force for several years. (Photo: Trump Make America Great Again Committee)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
As the devastating impacts of our endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to unfold, lawmakers have casually, without much debate, expanded the arena of war into space.


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