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News & Views | Monday, July 16, 2018
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Journalist Wielding "Nuclear Weapon Ban" Sign Forcibly Ejected From Trump-Putin Presser by Common Dreams staff Just moments before Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump began their joint press conference after meeting one-on-one in Finland on Monday, journalist and activist Sam Husseini—the communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy—was forcibly removed from the event while wielding a sign that read "Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty." |
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Declaring "We Are All Militant Again," Sanders and Teachers Rally Against Trump's "Hateful, Corporatist" Agenda by Jake Johnson, staff writer Emboldened by a wave of strikes that have swept across the U.S. over the past several months in opposition to low pay and right-wing austerity measures, the American Federation of Teachers convened over the weekend to build on the growing radicalism of the nation's educators and discuss an action plan to continue fighting the Trump administration's "hateful, corporatist, oligarchical, kleptocratic, cronyistic" agenda. |
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White House Reviewing Plan by 'Deregulatory Zealots' to Relax Child Labor Laws by Jake Johnson, staff writer As part of it's broad and relentless effort to roll back longstanding workplace safety regulations that have drastically reduced on-the-job injuries and deaths over the past several decades, President Donald Trump's Department of Labor (DOL) has officially sent the White House a proposal to allow teenagers to "spend full days operating chainsaws and meat slicers and working in other dangerous occupations." |
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'Warm Our Hearts Not Our Planet': Greenpeace Demands Climate Action From Trump and Putin by Jessica Corbett, staff writer As U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin came together in Helsinki, Finland on Monday for a closely watched summit, Greenpeace activists partnered with a local parish to unfurl two massive banners on the Kallio church's bell tower to call on the leaders to "warm our hearts not our planet." |
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How Billionaires Are Backing Charter School Push: AP by Andrea Germanos, staff writer By pouring money into state-level charter school advocacy groups, billionaires are pushing their version of education "reform" |
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Tenants Accuse 'Predatory' Kushner Real Estate Firm of Exposing Families to Cancer-Causing Dust Then Forcing Them Out by Jessica Corbett, staff writer The family real estate firm previously headed by President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is accused of exposing families to cancer-causing dust and forcing out tenants to convert rent-stabilized units to luxury condos, according to an investigation reported by The Associated Press and $10 million lawsuit tenants planned to file on Monday. |
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The Wages of Poverty in America by Rajan Menon In the United States of inequality |
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PBS Series,“The Vietnam War,” Receives Emmy Nomination. Should It? by Doug Rawlings If Americans are convinced that their stiff-upper-lip brand of silence in the face of collective murder is the true face of patriotism, then we are condemned as a nation to follow the path of empires that preceded us |
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A Sweet New Century for America’s Most Privileged by Sam Pizzigati America’s elected leaders haven’t ignored inequality since 2000. They’ve made it spectacularly worse |
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The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom by Chris Hedges The ruling elites, who refuse to accept responsibility for profound social inequality or the crimes of empire, have no ideological veneer left to justify their greed, ineptitude and pillage |
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Climb Down From the Summit of Hostile Propaganda by Norman Solomon Contempt for diplomacy with Russia is now extreme |
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With Iran Deal on Life Support, White House Looks to Finish the Job by Jon Rainwater If sanctions and coercive diplomacy by the U.S. escalate into regime change, it wouldn’t be the first time. Ask the Iraqis |
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