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News & Views | 1/13/20

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The Northern Muriqui

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The plan calls for the president to declare the global extinction crisis a national emergency and establish 500 new national parks, wildlife refuges, and marine sanctuaries.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (L) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) embrace after the Democratic Presidential Debate at the Fox Theatre July 30, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"This story—based on the accounts of four anonymous sources—is the most outrageous hit piece I've ever seen," said one critic of the news outlet's decision to publish the reporting.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Climate action advocates condemned reports that the Department of Homeland Security has placed non-violence anti-fossil fuel campaigners on a list of domestic threats alongside violent white supremacists and mass murderers.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The progressive campaign Demand Justice applauded Sen. Bernie Sanders for his stated willingness to release a shortlist of judges who he would consider appointing to federal judicial seats, should he win the presidency in 2020.


"Thank you to everyone contributing to this effort so far - this is a big deal," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Sunday regarding her newly launched Courage to Change PAC. "Help us build a war chest to support progressive red-to-blue seats, bold incumbents, and newcomers to Congress alike." (Photo: via Courage to Change PAC)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
Congresswoman from New York withholds dues from the party machine and launches a new PAC to help insurgent left-wing candidates.


The FEC has no quorum as the nation heads into an election year.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It is beyond belief that in this presidential year of enormous consequence, the nation's campaign finance enforcement agency is defunct."


A USDA inspector with pig carcasses.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We're suing the crap out of USDA for... feeding us crap."


"If the public views the trial as rigged," argued Craig Holman of Public Citizen, "a 'not guilty' verdict from the Senate will not be seen by the public as grounds for exoneration." (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"The public declarations by Senator McConnell that his role in the impeachment process is to coordinate with the White House and thereby make a mockery of the trial directly contradict his oath of impartiality."


President Donald Trump address to the nation from the Grand Foyer at the White House on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
New reporting reveals the president conditionally approved the Iranian general's assassination seven months ago.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
More than 1,200 Florida teachers on Monday followed through on their pledge to stand up for their students and schools at a statewide rally in Tallahassee, despite a threat from the state Department of Education which warned the teachers were risking termination by attending the event.


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders listens as former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University's Health and PE Center on September 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It is appalling that after 18 years Joe Biden still refuses to admit he was dead wrong on the Iraq War."

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Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren greet each other at the start of the Democratic presidential debate at the Fox Theatre on July 30, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
It would be a serious error for progressives to buy into corporate media portrayals of the Sanders and Warren campaigns as destined to play a traditional zero-sum political game.


"An American global killing machine (quite literally so, given that growing force of drones) is now at the beck and call of a single, unaccountable individual. This is the nightmare the founding fathers tried to protect us from." (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Lt Col Leslie Pratt/Public Domain)

by Allegra Harpootlian
“Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the United States; you are also electing an assassin-in-chief..."


The path to taking back the General Assembly majority and flipping North Carolina blue again runs through just a small number of close, competitive districts.

by Blair Reeves
Finally, there's good news.


"As bad as it looks – as despairing as you can sometimes feel – the great strength of this country is our resilience," writes Reich. "We bounce back. We will again. We already are." (Image: Inequality Media)

by Robert Reich


When ruling elites are unable to protect the rights and needs of citizens, or no longer interested in doing so, they become disposable.

by Chris Hedges
The U.S. suffers from an epidemic of nihilistic violence.


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo(R) listens as US President Donald Trump speaks about the situation with Iran in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, D.C., January 8, 2020.

by Juan Cole
The “intelligence” on which Trump and Esper and secretary of state Mike Pompeo made their decision to off Soleimani was likely raw and cherry-picked.

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