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[] [Confronting the Climate Crisis—Why We Need Bernie Sanders' Green New Deal](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy by Mark Schlosberg We cannot confront the climate emergency—we cannot avoid the worst of rapidly unfolding climate chaos—if we do not stop our headlong rush to expand fossil fuel extraction and burning. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why 2020 Dems Should Target the Nonprofit Charter School Industry](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) [Charter schools are funded through public education dollars, just like traditional public schools. Can they then function as if they were private real estate holders, with the freedom to knock down or otherwise alter buildings as they see fit? (Photo: Fibonacci Blue/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) by Sarah Lahm A battle over a beloved church building in the Twin Cities reveals how money can be made from charter school real estate deals. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Neoliberal Democrats Need to Stop Blaming the Internet and Take Some Responsibility for 2016](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) [A prominent Donald Trump sign on display in West Des Moines, Iowa in 2016. (Photo: Tony Webster/cc/flickr)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) by John Atcheson Perhaps we could let go of past failures more easily if it didn't look like many powerful forces were so eager to repeat them --------------------------------------------------------------- [Should We Feed Hungry Children, or the War Machine?](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) [Anti-war demonstration in New York City on the 16th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, October 7 2017. (Photo: Erik McGregor/SIPA USA/PA Images)](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) by Medea Benjamin Every dollar of public money financing US militarism abroad is a dollar that could fight hunger, homelessness, or climate change. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Walton Family Plot to Privatize the Public Schools of Arkansas](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) [Legislators are easy to buy in a poor state. The Waltons own quite a few. (Photo: OUR Walmart)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) by Diane Ravitch Have they no shame? --------------------------------------------------------------- [Invasion! When Donald Trump Attacks Planet Earth](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) [Protests marched against the state visit of US President Donald Trump on 4th June 2019 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo: Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images Images)](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) by Tom Engelhardt Who are the real invaders in these troubled times? --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AgpYClEldy) [] [] Newswire... 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