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News & Views | 7/29/19

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Sailor Boris Herrmann (L) with Svante Thunberg, father of Greta, and Greta Thunberg (R). (Photo: Birte Lorenzen)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Swedish climate activist will begin two-week journey aboard fossil fuel-free sailing yacht in mid-August.

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We are here in unity with local leaders who invited us. We have seen just a glimpse of the horrible conditions our immigrant neighbors are facing at the border."


Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) talks with reporters after a meeting of the House Democratic caucus in the Capitol on Tuesday, July 16, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Reminder: it's only July 2019. Stay tuned to find out which pile of dog shit the DCCC chair manages to step in next."


An environmental activist cuts an orange, painted as a globe, during an event to mark the Earth Overshoot Day on August 1, 2018 in Berlin.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Systemic change isn't radical, it's what we need to survive," says Sunrise Movement



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Harris calls her plan 'Medicare for All,' but it's not even close."


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

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"While I have been fighting to lift the people of Baltimore and elsewhere out of poverty with good paying jobs, housing, and healthcare, he has been attacking workers and the poor."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"By refusing to open an impeachment inquiry, House Democratic leadership is ignoring the facts laid out by Robert Mueller at his testimony."

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Remaining at the present level would imply a continued carnage at the “commodity extraction frontier” until so little is left that eternal warfare and collapse are inevitable. (Remko de Waal/Getty-AFP)

by Joan Martinez Alier , Nick Meynen
The fatal flaw in the plan to end poverty and save the planet.


Poorer seniors are likely to have been poor, or among the working poor, most of their lives. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Katherine Newman
Social security helps, but growing inequality means millions of elders are just barely making it.


Demonstrator holds a sign that reads, “No one is illegal on stolen land” at a protest near the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo: SOPA Images/Getty Images)

by Guillermo Torres
"As the original caretakers of these lands and territories, we have inherent authority over migration and demand an end to these barbaric acts."


George W. Bush's penchant for saying that in executing the war against Iraq he was carrying out "God's will."(Photo: Screenshot)

by James Zogby
When it masks a political agenda or when it justifies violence either by groups or state actors, it becomes a danger


A B53 nuclear bomb at the Pantex facility in Texas. (Photo: NNSA/flickr/cc)

by Lawrence Wittner
Don’t you―as stand-ins for the American people―think it might be worthwhile to ask the candidates some questions about how best to avert a global catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude?



by Danny Sjursen
And the Afghan war will be no exception

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