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News & Views | Friday, March 22, 2019

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ACLU Demands DOJ 'Swiftly' Release Special Counsel Report to the Public
by Common Dreams staff
"The American people have a right to know if President Trump and his associates coordinated with Russia to interfere in our elections, the full extent of Russian efforts to affect our elections, and any attempts to interfere with Special Counsel Mueller's investigation."

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	Progressives Refuse to Back Down as DCCC Moves to Kneecap Primary Challengers by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Don't think for one second that it'll stop us—or the grassroots army we stand with—from backing bold, inclusive populists who will better represent their districts in Congress over neoliberal corporate Dems."
	Following Monsanto, Exxon Could Be Next US Corporation to Face EU Lobby Ban by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "Big Oil is the new Big Tobacco." ExxonMobil could join Monsanto as one of the only two companies not allowed to lobby the EU as soon as the end of April.
	'Like Nominating Dr. Phil to Run CDC': Alarm Bells as Trump Nominates Right-Wing Sycophant Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Economists and progressive experts responded with exasperation and unease on Friday after President Donald Trump said he will nominate right-wing commentator Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve, the gatekeeper of the nation's economy.
	'Outrageous. Unacceptable.': Indiana Teachers Shot 'Execution-Style' With Pellets in School Shooting Drill by Jake Johnson, staff writer "In New Zealand, they respond to a mass shooting by banning semi-automatics five days later. In America, we respond to near-daily mass shootings by...literally shooting teachers."
	'In a Just World, It Would Be Treated as Crime Against Humanity': New Report Exposes Big Oil's Real Agenda by Jessica Corbett, staff writer In the years since the 2015 Paris agreement, the world's top five Big Oil firms collectively have spent more than a billion dollars on "misleading" branding and lobbying to "capture the public and political narrative" on the climate crisis while they continue expanding their fossil fuel operations.
	Only Socialist in US History of 'With Serious Chance of Winning': DSA Endorses Bernie Sanders for 2020 by Jon Queally, staff writer Democratic Socialists of America say senator from Vermont is the only candidate in the race who can "transform American society by ending the worst forms of poverty and inequality while empowering workers to fight for even more."

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	How Billionaires Are Using Hate to Divide Us by Leo Gerard The only way to deal with them is with solidarity
	Unfair State Tax Codes Also Exacerbate Racial Inequity by Misha Hill Regressive state and local tax codes are worsening both income inequalities and widening racial income and wealth gaps by requiring communities of color to contribute a larger share of their income in taxes
	Boom! Wisconsin GOP’s Lame-Duck Power Grab Ruled Unconstitutional by Mary Bottari, Scott Zimmerman The people of Wisconsin were “entitled to a government that represents their interests transparently, welcomes citizens’ input, and respects the limits of its constitutional authority.”
	2020 Dem Presidential Hopefuls Flee Israel lobbies’ AIPAC After MoveOn.org Boycott Call by Juan Cole It is a potential watershed moment
	America Is Exceptional—in All the Wrong Ways by Danny Sjursen I’ve seen where all those ideologies inevitably lead: to aggressive war, military occupations and, ultimately, dead children
	Let’s Not Restore or Mythologize Obama by Jeff Cohen Obama’s tenure paved the way for the rise of Trump