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News & Views | 1/23/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Gun control advocates slammed the Trump administration Thursday for siding with gun manufacturers and lobbyists as it slashed the oversight process for exporting weapons overseas.

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Woolsey Fire

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In response to a New York Times report Thursday about mounting concerns from investors and market experts that the climate crisis could cause the next economic meltdown, environmentalists reiterated calls for financial institutions to cut ties with the fossil fuel companies that pollute the planet and drive global heating.


U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"A lethal diversionary tactic at the expense of Palestinian rights and international law."


2020 Doomsday Clock

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Citing the worsening nuclear threat and inaction on the climate crisis, scientists issue a historic warning about the risk of global catastrophe.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We've long suspected he would try to gut Medicare in a second term."


Glaciers like the Sawyer Glacier in Alaska, pictured here in July 2016, are melting around the world—possibly releasing viruses and microbes into the air.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We've opened up a Pandora's box with climate change."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Prepare for establishment meltdown."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
In the Trump administration's latest effort to strip migrants and travelers to the U.S. of their rights, the U.S. State Department is planning to issue new guidance to consular officers empowering them to refuse visas to pregnant travelers.


Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg joins a protest by climate activist near UN headquarters on August 30, 2019, in New York.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It doesn't take a college degree in economics to realize that our remaining 1.5° carbon budget and ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and investments don't add up."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever sludge or slime they wished into the streams and wetlands that often connect to the water we drink."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
In a tweet thanking Dalhi Myers for her endorsement, Sanders wrote, "Together, we will defeat the most dangerous president in modern history."

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"The gap between rich and poor can’t be resolved without deliberate inequality-busting policies." (Photo: blind.fortune / Flick)

by Ilana Novick
"Extreme wealth is a sign of a failing economic system."


Brown bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Courtney Bourgoin
The climate and mass extinction crises are interwoven—but we are equipped with the solutions.


Sanctions starve our people of food, medicine, and safety while public figures threaten us with more violence.(Photo: Shutterstock)

by Negin Owliaei
Here are a few illuminating and emotionally resonant pieces by real Iranians on life under sanctions, the brutality of war, and the recent crisis.


This nation’s lack of atonement for its past—combined with the endless wars it is currently waging—make King’s legacy profoundly problematic, by which I mean relevant. (Photo: Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
The FBI—the agency that saw King and the civil rights movement as a communist plot—subjected him to merciless surveillance and may have tried to get him to commit suicide.


What the Republicans want is not a fair trial but a cover-up. And a cover-up is the last thing the nation needs at this critical juncture in its history. (Photo: Saul Loeb/Getty Images)

by Bill Blum
None of the potential witnesses identified by Democrats could offer evidence as relevant as the President on his motives in dealing with Zelensky and ordering a hold on American aid.


U.S. troops train some 25 miles from the Iraqi border, near Camp New York, on January 21, 2003, in Kuwait, Iraq. (Photo: Gilles Bassignac / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

by Stephen Zunes
It fits a longstanding pattern in U.S. foreign policy of engaging in illegal and unnecessary foreign military interventions that create a series of crises that are then utilized to justify further foreign military intervention.

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