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News & Views | 1/22/20

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US President Donald Trump looks back as a question from the press is shouted after a press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"It'll be toward the end of the year," Trump said from Davos, Switzerland. "And at the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that's actually the easiest of all things, if you look, cause it's such a big percentage."

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Floodwater from the Mississippi River rises around a home on June 1, 2019 in West Alton, Missouri.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The Mississippi Basin floods were among the disasters with a massive price tag.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A new report released at the World Economic Forum's annual summit in Davos is urging world governments and communities to drastically reduce their consumption of material goods, revealing that annual consumption has now passed 100 billion tons per year.


Homero Gómez, administrator of the biggest butterfly sanctuary in the western state of Michoacan.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The butterfly sanctuary manager went missing January 13.


Progressive journalist and political commentator Krystal Ball on her morning show "Rising" on TheHillTV. (Photo: Rising/YouTube)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
As the corporate and Democratic Party establishment lash out at the progressive 2020 candidate, #ILikeBernie and #IEndorseBernie show Sanders movement's ability to fight back.


Journalist Glenn Greenwald, co-founder and editor of The Intercept, gestures during a hearing at the Lower House's Human Rights Commission in Brasilia, Brazil on June 25, 2019.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It should be clear to anyone—no matter their political persuasion—that the Bolsonaro administration is taking these actions in a purely retaliatory manner in an attempt to criminalize journalism."


save.org

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The executive directors of 11 major international nongovernmental organizations on Wednesday added their voices to a swelling chorus opposed to the pending sale of the nonprofit registry that operates the .org top-level domain to a recently established private equity firm.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The United Nations called on Tuesday for a far-reaching investigation into allegations that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hacked Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's cell phone, enabling him to extract data from the device and potentially blackmail Bezos.


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders leads a new CNN poll.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
" CNN still cannot fathom stating the obvious here: Sanders is leading in their own national poll."


parched crop field with pesticide sign

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Supporting the pledge commits candidates to prioritizing "the health of our families, farmers, food chain workers, our planet, and our democracy."


Screenshot of new Bernie Sanders campaign video featuring former vice president Joe Biden's long history of advocating for and being will to make cuts and cost of living adjustments to Social Security. (Image: Underlying photo Gage Skidmore/with overlay)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Let's be honest, Joe," said Sanders. "One of us fought for decades to cut Social Security, and one of us didn't. But don’t take it from me. Take it from you."

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"Headlines typically draw in readers or viewers by including the most relevant and interesting information," writes Cho. "When only 40% of the US public read past the headlines, that means a good majority of readers have their worldviews shaped by the short bits of stories editors choose to highlight." (Collage: FAIR)

by Joshua Cho
Headlines like "Joe Biden Falsely Claims that Bernie Sanders Is Spreading a 'Doctored Video'" were nowhere to be found, they would have been more accurate.


A Haitian man sells used shoes in Port-au-Prince amidst earthquake damage on January 9, 2012. (Photo: THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP via Getty Images)

by Mina Remy, Chris Morrill
For decades, Haitian capitalism has let the country’s poor barely survive, or die in the earthquake rubble of the slums, while its wealthy thrived.


A member of the audience takes pictures of the Democratic presidential hopefuls during the seventh Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register at the Drake University campus in Des Moines, Iowa on January 14, 2020. (Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
Soon will come a time when fighting among Democrats must cease.    


With so many politicians in the pockets of their big donors, it’s been even harder to make progress on issues like gun safety, health care costs, or climate change. (Photo: DonkeyHotey/Flickr)

by Tiffany Muller
Ten years after Citizens United, the damage is broad and deep—but we can still fix it.


If we suppress all discussion, all criticism, proclaiming, "This is the answer, my friends; man is saved!" we will doom humanity for a long time to the chains of authority, confined to the limits of our present imagination. (Photo: Illustration: Variety; Elements: Shutterstock)

by Debi Smith
We the masses have become largely unwitting victims of the elites and their indoctrination schemes, sales pitches, and controlling propaganda.


The reality is a stock market boom is not the basis of shared prosperity. (Photo: Scott Beale on Flickr)

by Thomas Palley
Our addiction to stock price inflation is politically and economically toxic. It is rooted in an illusion promoted by Wall Street, the Federal Reserve and mainstream economists that conflates the stock market and shared prosperity.

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