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News & Views | 1/10/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump is attacking us because he knows we will beat him in the general election," said Bernie Sanders.

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Multiple strikes on top IRGC officials is starting a war. These were decapitation strikes."


Greta and school strikers in Italy

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As climate groups launched a new campaign targeting Wall Street's funding of the dirty energy industry and school strikers took part in weekly #FridaysForFuture protests across the globe, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and 20 fellow youth activists published an op-ed calling on world leaders to "abandon the fossil fuel economy."


Activists for climate action rallied

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in cities across Australia Friday to protests their government's inaction on the global climate emergency as the country continues to battle catastrophic bushfires that have devoured millions of acres of land, destroyed hundreds of homes, and left over a billion animals and 27 people dead.


American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists and give the Black Power Salute at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"God how I despise these Olympic politician opportunists."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Supporters of a wealth tax to combat persistent economic inequality in the U.S. pointed to the latest polling by Reuters/Ipsos, which showed that nearly two-thirds of respondents support taxing the rich at higher rates to support programs that would benefit all Americans.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders both seized upon the report as evidence that Trump nearly sparked a catastrophic war for political gain.


A detail of the cover image for Toxic Hangover, a new report by Center for Biological Diversity.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
From 2017-2018, the agency approved 69 new pesticide products containing an ingredient the EPA recognizes as a "known" or "likely" carcinogen.


A supporter of Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales waves white flags during clashes with riot police following a protest in La Paz on November 13, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The Trump administration has clearly picked sides."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Tonight, the American people spoke with one voice. No war."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"That is not what 'imminent' means. It's this kind of obfuscation, lying to Congress, and unchecked provocation that dragged us into the Iraq War."

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Demonstrators protest the possibility of War with Iran from a pedestrian bridge over Lakeshore Drive during rush hour on January 09, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. The House adopted a war powers resolution Thursday with the aim of limiting President Donald Trump’s military actions against Iran. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies
We, the American people, must rise up to overcome the power of the military-industrial complex and take our country's destiny out of the hands of warmongers and monsters.


Biden has been trying to rewrite his Iraq War history, with only sporadic and halfhearted media pushback. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Julie Hollar
Turning Biden's support for Iraq War into foreign policy 'experience.'


Iranian mourners attending an anti-US demonstration aftr the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian Airbus. 290 civilian passengers and crew members, including 66 children, died. (Photo by Barry Iverson/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins
On July 3, 1988 the US guided missile destroyer USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300 flying in Iranian airspace and carrying 290 civilians from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, killing all aboard.


Even if one is inclined, against all experience, to take US claims about an official enemy on faith, the language that Soleimani killed "hundreds of Americans" is a deliberately nebulous. (Photo: Screenshot)

by Alan MacLeod
While corporate media like to present themselves as holding the current administration to account, in reality they offer little meaningful resistance to its foreign policy adventures.


The U.S. has killed untold numbers of civilians by unmanned aerial drones, bombing raids, cruise missile attacks, and special operations missions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia—also in Syria and Yemen. (Photo: via EuroYankee)

by Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
All Catholics should refuse to kill and should refuse cooperation with United States wars.


Trump’s threats a few days ago to put sanctions on Iraq, “sanctions that would make Iran sanctions seem tame,” can only be called blasphemous. (Photo: Adrian Dennis/EPA)

by Cathy Breen
"What right does your president have to attack us, to ruin our country?"

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