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News & Views | Tuesday, September 24, 2019
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'How Dare You!': Greta Thunberg Rages at 'Fairytales of Eternal Economic Growth' by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "Entire ecosytems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money." |
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In 'Tremendous Victory for the Public,' Federal Appeals Court Quashes FCC Attempt to Weaken Media Ownership Rules by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Public interest groups celebrated Monday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit quashed an effort by the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission to relax local media ownership rules. |
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'Unfortunate But Not Surprising': Sanders Responds to Report Biden-Linked Firm Poll Testing Attacks on Medicare for All by Eoin Higgins, staff writer A senior advisor to the Sanders campaign said it was "disgusting" that former vice president's campaign would be "echoing bogus GOP talking points." |
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'If a House Is on Fire, You Don't Add Fuel': 530 Groups Back Call to Rapidly Phase Out Fossil Fuels Worldwide by Jessica Corbett, staff writer The environmental group Stand.earth announced on Monday that 530 organizations have signed on to the Lofoten Declaration, which calls for rapidly phasing out fossil fuels on a global scale and transitioning to clean energy, as world leaders and activists gathered in New York City for the United Nations Climate Action Summit. |
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Reports of Wedding Party Bombing Indicate US Forces Have Massacred at Least 70 Afghan Civilians in One Week by Andrea Germanos, staff writer "Don't kill us," said one local who survived the recent bombing in Helmand province. |
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'We Want to Show Them We Are Serious': 16 Youth Activists File Suit Against Major Nations for Failing to Act on Climate Crisis by Jake Johnson, staff writer "The climate crisis is a children's rights crisis." |
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To Stop the Worst Effects of the Climate Crisis, Report Says 'The Level of Ambition Needs to be Tripled'—At Minimum by Eoin Higgins, staff writer The new U.N. report referencing increasing impacts of the climate crisis underscores the need for urgent action. |
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Want Real Climate Ambition? Keep Polluting Industries Out and Make Them Pay. by Patti Lynn, Nnimmo Bassey, & Lidy Nacpil The industries that have fueled this crisis should have no part in dictating the solutions—rather, they should be made to pay to address the massive damages they have caused and to finance real solutions to the crisis. |
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Why Are House Democrats Afraid to Wield Their Subpoena Power? by Jeff Hauser, Max Moran Make no mistake: Democratic cowardice toward oversight has real, "kitchen-table" consequences for voters. |
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Five Hundred Days of Injustice: On the Imprisonment of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by Celso Amorim For normalcy to return to Brazil and for hope to be recovered, Lula's freedom—along with annulment of the faulty process by which he was condemned—is essential. |
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The Trump "Whistleblower" Situation Is Very Dangerous for Democracy (and for the Democrats) by Jeffrey C. Isaac Biden's disingenuousness is no match for Trump |
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Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites by Chris Hedges We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us. |
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Will Joe Biden Be a Rerun of 2016 Tragedy? by Jeff Cohen As a throwback to the Clintonite 1990s, Biden says he feels the pain of victims but won’t name many villains. That approach no longer works—and actually plays into the hands of demagogues like Trump. |