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News & Views | 1/9/20

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Former President George W. Bush's former press secretary Ari Fleischer appeared on Fox News January 2 to claim the assassination of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani would be welcomed by Iranians. It was not.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"No voices calling for peace. No voices critical of empire. Just establishment media and current and former Pentagon officials who feed off the trillion dollar war machine."

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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Climate activists on Thursday announced a new campaign that aims to send a message to Wall Street: "Stop financing fossil fuels and deforestation and start respecting human rights and Indigenous sovereignty."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Conservation and climate action groups condemned President Donald Trump's "unprecedented" rollback Thursday of a 50-year-old law which made history when it was passed in 1970, allowing communities to have a say in federal projects that would affect their environments.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The NYC Bar's letter represents the first time it or any comparable association has called for an investigation into a sitting attorney general.


Rescue teams work at the scene after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. - All 176 people on board a Ukrainian passenger plane were killed when it crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran on January 8, Iranian state media reported. State news agency IRNA said 167 passengers and nine crew members were on board the aircraft operated by Ukraine International Airlines. (

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Horrible accidents happen in the context of war so maybe we just shouldn't be at war with Iran."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Journalists immediately wondered whether Trump just revealed the supposed "imminent" threat that top officials claimed for days was too sensitive to make public.


raise the wage protest

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A new study that suggests raising the minimum wage could prevent thousands of suicide deaths in the United States sparked fresh calls for relief from federal lawmakers and cast a spotlight on Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's legislative graveyard.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I can assure your viewers that those of us that have seen all the evidence—that saw the evidence in real time—know that President Trump made the right decision."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A new survey shed new light on the wide gulf between the richest Americans and low-income families, particularly in terms of how the two groups view their own life experiences and satisfaction.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We believe a Bernie Sanders presidency would provide the best political terrain in which to engage in and ultimately win that struggle for the world we deserve."


Intercity Transit Bus 902 on Route 12 to downtown Olympia.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
City is latest in the country to offer publicly-funded transportation for residents and visitors.

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"We will not allow a new war to break out," writes Koshgarian. "Call your members of Congress and tell them to immediately pass legislation revoking the president’s blanket war authority and reclaiming war powers for Congress alone." (Image: Common Dreams / CC BY 3.0)

by Lindsay Koshgarian
War with Iran would be bloodier and costlier even than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We can't afford another war.


A child participant seen during the rally. Dozens of protesters take part in a rally called "Swarm the Senate" in the Hart Senate Office Building urging action to "impeach, remove, indict and jail" President Trump. (Photo: Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

by Ralph Nader
Only a full accounting of Trump's high crimes and misdemeanors will shake the Republicans from backing McConnell's kangaroo court


Though on its surface the current conflict is between Iran and the United States, a war would reverberate through the world. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

by Assal Rad
Now more than ever, anti-war voices are crucial to end the madness of our ineffective policies.


After more than 18 years of war with neither end nor victory in sight, says Tom Engelhardt, absolute failure is the "new success" as Pentagon budgets and arms makers' profits soar while the military-industrial complex enjoys the bounty of endless conflict and blood further than the eye can see. (Photo: Jeff Owens / EyeEm / iStock via Getty Images)

by Tom Engelhardt
No, that's not a typo.


U.S. Senator Wayne Morse (D-Or.) at a peace rally during the U.S. war in Vietnam stands in front of a banner that reads "Napalm use if an atrocity." (Photo: Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics / University of Oregon)

by Norman Solomon
Much has changed during the last five decades, but deception remains central to the state of perpetual war that funnels mega-billions in profits to the military-industrial complex. And Democrats continue to play a central role in this costly destruction.


The administration justified the killing of Soleimani by suggesting that he and Iran’s surrogates throughout the region were on the verge of attacks that threatened U.S. soldiers. It has not provided evidence for these imminent attacks.(Photo: Shutterstock)

by John Feffer
The current crisis might be averted, but the longer U.S. war with Iran continues.

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