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News & Views | 1/24/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"As a candidate, Trump said he'd protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Now he has an obligation to tell the American people: 'I was lying. It was all just a campaign ruse.'"

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Glenn Greenwald

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A coalition of more than 40 press freedom and human rights groups from across the globe sent a letter Friday to Brazilian authorities condemning cybercrime charges brought against American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald earlier this week as a clear intimidation effort for his reporting on key members of President Jair Bolsonaro's government.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Why is POTUS, who has the power to remove ambassadors, conspiring with goons to do so?"



by Julia Conley, staff writer
As President Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to attend the annual March for Life on Friday, reproductive rights advocates used social media to counter his anti-choice message with the hashtag #MarchForLies, sharing accurate information about reproductive health and slamming Trump for his attacks on women.


A police officer checks the temperature of a driver at a highway in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on January 24, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
There have been two confirmed cases of the disease in the U.S. so far, and a number of further samples are being tested.


Thousands of Iraqis gathering at Jadariya, a neighborhood in the Baghdad city center at a rally against the presence of U.S. troops in the country, in Baghdad, Iraq on January 24, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We want to see Iraq with full sovereignty."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Democratic congresswoman and chair of the House Abortion Access Task Force said she "would welcome the opportunity to educate" the Education Secretary on reproductive rights. And maybe U.S. history of chattel slavery?


Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Isabelle Axelsson, and Vanessa Nakate take part in a "Friday for future" youth demonstration in a street of Davos on January 24, 2020

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It is time to get out of our comfort zones."


Activists from the Population Connection Action Fund hold signs as they project a message onto the Trump International Hotel to protest the Global Gag Rule

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This proposal by a group of infamously anti-woman, anti-choice Congress members is egregious to say the least."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The president's war on healthcare knows no bounds."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Indigenous leaders in Brazil on Friday vowed to stop President Jair Bolsonaro's assault on their land and members of the country's 300 tribes, filing a lawsuit against the president for his latest racist statements about Indigenous people.

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A youth holds a placard as she participates in a climate strike to protest against governmental inaction towards climate breakdown and environmental pollution, part of demonstrations being held worldwide in a movement dubbed "Fridays for Future" in Hyderabad on September 20, 2019. (Photo: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)

by Raffi Cavoukian
Four decades after release of iconic children's song—and as we run out of time to respond to the existential climate emergency our world faces—I've run out of patience. We have just ten years to secure the future.


President Donald Trump at the 2020 World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday. (Photo: Shealah Craighead / White House)

by Sonali Kolhatkar
It should not surprise us in the least that the most dishonest president in U.S. history would spin a fantastical vision of the economy that appears to exist only in his imagination.


Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, not only went against dollars and cents in pleasing his fellow polluters, he went against all scientific sense. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Derrick Z. Jackson
If the Trump administration’s own scientific advisory board, a host of biological societies, and scores of former government agency officials are disappointed, the rest of America should be fearful and angry.


Speaker Pelosi missed known opportunities to throw the Republicans on the defensive in the Senate and tie them up in knots. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

by Ralph Nader
There is still time for Pelosi to instruct her colleagues to immediately publicize the other ways Trump has shattered our Constitution and warn him that a second round of impeachments could be around the corner.


The public must engage in order to end this war on journalism. (Photo: Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

by Nozomi Hayase
This is the most important press freedom case of the 21st century.


"We are now awakening to the responsibilities that come with our distinctive ability to consciously create our future." (Photo by Aliraza Khatri/Getty Images)

by David Korten
This is our time to step up to the challenge of our age and to create a future consistent with our reality as living beings born of and nurtured by a living Earth.

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