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News & Views | 1/21/20

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a session at the Congres center during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 21, 2020. (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"I've been warned that telling people to panic about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do, but don't worry—it's fine—I've done this before and I can assure you: it doesn't lead to anything."

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Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell arrives for the Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 21, 2020. - Sparks flew Tuesday over proposed rules for the Senate trial of President Donald Trump, as Democrats accused Republicans of attempting a "cover-up" of evidence that the US leader abused his powers. The first full day of the historic trial saw the Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell submit a resolution on procedures that does not admit ev

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"If the president is so confident in his case, if Leader McConnell is so confident the president did nothing wrong, why don't they want the case to be presented in broad daylight?"


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has spent his several decades in politics fighting for working people and believes that "billionaires should not exist," responded to a new Oxfam International report on inequality by calling Tuesday for a global movement to pursue economic justice.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
As officials in Washington State reported Tuesday that a resident was diagnosed with the coronavirus which was first detected in Wuhan, China last month, federal public agencies which have suffered billions of dollars in cuts in recent years issued warnings and posted information about the illness.


The future of global biodiversity is bleak without immediate action.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"If our support systems are gone, there will be no humans."


Joe Biden speaking at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton at a September 27, 2016 rally at Drexel University, in Philadelphia.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Here's the thing: nominating a candidate like Biden will make it far more difficult to defeat Trump."


Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigning together in 2016.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Former secretary of state claims "nobody likes" Vermont senator, currently a leading presidential Democratic candidate and the most popular elected politician in the country.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Human rights groups marked a significant "moment of reckoning" on Tuesday for the U.S. torture program which was used by the CIA following the September 11 attacks, as the two psychologists who developed the program arrived in Guantanamo Bay to testify under oath.


Journalist Glenn Greenwald was charged with cybercrimes Tuesday by the Brazilian government.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This is despicable, dangerous, and a crime against journalism."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
At a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event at Riverside Church in Harlem, New York Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez urged her audience to recognize the Democratic Party is closer to "a center-conservative party" than a progressive one—something that must change if the civil rights icon's legacy is truly to be honored.


XR Madrid

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Spain's new left-wing coalition government on Tuesday declared a climate emergency and promised to send ambitious legislation to the country's parliament within the next 100 days—moves that were welcomed by campaigners who responded with calls for "concrete and immediate" action plans.

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in a hallway after a vote December 2, 2019 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Richard L. Clinton
We were taught early on the basic values of honesty, civility, and shame. What happened?


I’d describe how Bernie has a powerful movement behind him, built over years, with millions of small donors. (Photo: Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images)

by Roy Eidelson
Bernie has the highest favorability ratings of all the primary candidates and the latest national polls show him beating Trump in the general election.


For too long Congress has largely abdicated its responsibilities when it comes to holding the Pentagon accountable. (Photo: Master Sgt. Ken Hammond / U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons)

by Mandy Smithberger
A Congress that allows endless wars, terrible spending practices, and multiplying conflicts of interest is, as the history of the twenty-first century has shown us, a recipe for disaster.


Essentially, it’s democracy for sale to the highest bidder. (Photo: Joe Bruskey/cc/flickr)

by Brett Wilkins
"You can’t take on a corrupt system if you take its money."


Lower pay for those at the top increases the real pay for those at the bottom and middle. (Photo: Steve Rhodes/flickr/cc)

by Dean Baker
In such a world, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year in the United States.


Woman and child in flood in Indonesia. (Photo: World Meteorological Organisation, Flickr/Climate Visuals)

by Marianne Brooker
'Governments must consider a heating planet’s imminent threat to Pacific peoples’ lives.'

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