All Views Articles for 2020-05-07

Thursday, May 7, 2020
The FEC complaint filed by the Campaign Legal Center on Thursday alleges that Big Tent Project should have registered as a political committee, since it was created to oppose Sen. Bernie Sanders' election, and all its known activities were focused on opposing Sanders. (Image: via Campaign Legal Center) Brendan Fischer
We Believe This "Dark Money" Group Illegally Spent Nearly $5 Million to Destroy Sanders 2020 Campaign
And because voters have a right to know the truth, the Campaign Legal Center where I work has filed an official FEC complaint against the secretive Big Tent Project.
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A worker installs solar panels at the Solarpark Eggersdorf solar park on September 4, 2012 near Muencheberg, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Sarah Lazare
Covid-19 Is a Reason To Start the Green New Deal Now
We can get out of this depression and save the planet all at once.
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Many mistakenly believe the U.N. already possesses such a force — the “U.N. Blue Helmets.” (Photo: Flickr) Tad Daley
An Army of Humanity to Fight Crimes Against Humanity
A UNRDF would give individual citizens all around the world the ability to volunteer to do more than just “serve their countries.” It would give them the opportunity to serve humanity.
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It has been obvious to many that the nation needs significant reform in health care funding and in the delivery of health care so that all in the U.S. have access to health care without financial impediment. (Photo: Rrenner—CC BY-SA 3.0) Cornelia van der Ziel, Jonathan King
Federal Investment for Public Health—or for Endless Wars?
One needs only to look at the Pentagon budget to find a ready source of funding for basic human needs.
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The Congressional Budget Office projects that without additional relief, the unemployment rate will average 16% in the third quarter of this year and 10.1% for the entire calendar year of 2021. (Photo: Getty Images) Heidi Shierholz
Nearly One in Five Workers Applied for State Unemployment Insurance Benefits in the Last Seven Weeks
Congress must act to mitigate harm from unprecedented joblessness.
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Why does it take a pandemic to get the world to stop fighting? Are we being led by 3-year-olds? (Photo: Shutterstock) Robert C. Koehler
Can We Achieve Nuclear Adulthood?
Half the money the world spends on militarism—including nukes —every year is hemorrhaged by the United States of America.
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Trudeau's doing a great deal to make the situation worse during this pandemic for some of the most vulnerable people on the planet. (Photo: Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) Linda McQuaig
Trudeau Should Lift Punishing Sanctions That Harm Vulnerable Nations
Ottawa’s sanctions appear primarily aimed at appeasing the U.S., which ruthlessly enforces sanctions against regimes it wishes to destabilize or overthrow.
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A supporter holds a Bernie action figure outside a campaign event of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at Ingersoll Tap February 2, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa caucuses will be held on February 3. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Norman Solomon
The Fight for Bernie Delegates Is Escalating—and Could Help Beat Trump
"We have had enough of the status quo policies that do not change the material conditions for the poor, working poor and middle class in this country," said former Sanders national co-chair Nina Turner this week. "We intend to keep pushing for a government that works for everyone."
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More to the point, with any population, the difference between success and failure is preparation, swift action, and the techniques applied to overcome the pandemic. (Photo: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images) Ann Jones
Getting Trumped by Covid-19
A journal of the onset of the plague year.
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The vast number of crowded, stressed animals held captive on US factory farms presents ample opportunities for pathogens to practice spreading directly from animal to animal, and indirectly through flies, rodents, manure, and workers moving between barns. (Photo: CC) Mark Middleton
To Prevent the Next Pandemic, We Need Meaningful Oversight of Animal Agribusiness
We must act now to protect animals, workers, and public health from the meat industry.
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US President Donald Trump tours a Honeywell International Inc. factory producing N95 masks during his first trip since widespread COVID-19 related lockdowns went into effect May 5, 2020, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images) Les Leopold
President Donald Trump Culls the Herd
Here is the chilling truth: To win reelection Trump is willfully allowing the virus to kill more and more of us, especially our most vulnerable—the old, the infirm, the poor, and the essential low-wage workers.
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