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News & Views | 1/6/20

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monarch nectaring on a showy milkweed

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Highlighting the "strong scientific consensus that the decline of insects, other arthropods, and biodiversity as a whole, is a very real and serious threat that society must urgently address," 73 international scientists on Monday published a roadmap to battle the world's "bugpocalypse."

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U.S. Coast Guard crews work to put out a fire during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The reported plan targets the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which has been called the Magna Carta of environmental legislation, and could hasten approval of pipelines like the Keystone XL.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
After former National Security Adviser John Bolton announced Monday that he would be willing to testify in a Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump, Sen. Bernie Sanders demanded the president answer one question: "What are you afraid of?"


Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a press conference at Parliament House on January 05, 2020 in Canberra, Australia.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"'Whatever it takes' needs to include serious and ambitious action to reduce Australia's and global emissions."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Women's rights advocates called the first day of film executive Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial on Monday a "moment of justice" and reckoning, more than two years after accusations of sexual assault and harassment against Weinstein set off the global #MeToo movement.


Anti-war activist protest in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on January 4, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The warning comes as President Donald Trump continued to assert the U.S. has a right to attack culturally significant sites.


U.S. military personnel are leaving Iraq.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"That letter is a draft, it was a mistake, it was unsigned, it should not have been released," said Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley.


Former national security advisor John Bolton listens to President Donald Trump talk to reporters during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on Feb. 12. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Will GOP "hold a fair trial that airs the evidence against Trump, or will they enable Trump's cover-up?"


Comedian George Carlin performing at Paramount Theater in New York City on April 24th, 1992 during his eighth recorded special for HBO. (Photo: via Scrapsfromtheleft.com)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions," said the famous standup comic in 1992 following the first Gulf War. "I don't just roll over when I'm told to. Sad to say, most Americans just roll over on command—not me."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Funerals held all over Iran Monday for Major General Qasem Soleimani gave offered a striking visual of President Donald Trump's drastic escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran, as millions of people poured into the streets to mourn Soleimani's assassination.


President Donald Trump stops to speak to reporters as he prepared to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on January 19, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The Constitution doesn't allow presidents to declare war over social media."

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We can put an end to dangerous war profiteering by denying federal contracts to corporations that pay their top executives excessively. (Photo: Chris Devers / Flickr)

by Sarah Anderson
As long as the top executives of our privatized war economy can reap unlimited rewards, the profit motive for war in Iran—or anywhere—will persist.


The price was even higher for Iraqis the second time around, with a 2015 study concluding at least 1.2 million, and possibly more than 2 million, civilians and combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have died in the ongoing US-led war on terrorism, now in its 19th year. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Brett Wilkins
In survey after international survey, the United States is perennially voted the world’s greatest threat to peace in most of the world’s nations.


U.S. President Donald Trump confers with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) while departing the U.S. Capitol following a St. Patrick's Day celebration on March 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Sarah Lazare, Michael Arria
Democratic leaders are feigning outrage, but they’ve supported the precursors to war.


Iranian pride, nationalism and basic sense of sovereignty, deeply wounded by Soleimani’s assassination, may demand an actual hot war with the U.S. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Danny Sjursen
With so much on the line—both for the United States and the world—the time for silence is over. Public resistance is the only tool we the people have left.


Trump’s ignorant threat of responding to Teheran’s retaliation by destroying 52 critical targets across Iran can only result in spiraling escalation and to wider war that will consume lives across the Middle East and likely here in the United States.

by Joseph Gerson
Instead of initiating a war with the assassination of General Soleimani, rationale leaders would have pursued diplomacy to reverse the spiraling dynamic of military escalation, not thoughtlessly and murderously fueling it.


As 2020 begins, with America’s Afghan war in its 19th year and "progress" as nonexistent as ever, a beleaguered president continues to mull over just how to end America’s "endless wars" (while seemingly expanding them further). (Photo: U.S. Army/flickr/cc)

by Nick Turse
U.S. "plans" for the Afghan War might prove a crime against humanity.

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