How Greed of 'Border-Industrial Complex' Fuels Militarization and Abuse | News & Views

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [] News & Views | 9/16/19 [] Feature... [] [It's Not Just Trump: New Report Details How Greed of 'Border-Industrial Complex' Fuels Militarization and Abuse](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [As seen through fencing, migrants—including a young child—stand while being detained by Department of Homeland Security police after crossing to the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border barrier, on June 27, 2019 in El Paso, Texas.](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer " The last three decades have witnessed an unstoppable boom in U.S. border spending and many arms, security, and IT firms have made millions as a result." [] [] News... 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Bernie Sanders. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Demanding 'Fair Wages and Basic Dignity' for All Workers in Changing Economy, Climate Action Campaigners Back UAW Strike](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ by Julia Conley, staff writer Days before the Global Climate Strike, a top climate action advocate called on all campaigners and backers of the Green New Deal to offer their full-throated support also to the 50,000 auto workers who went on strike Monday, highlighting the solidarity between the two movements. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warren Rolls Out Plan She Calls 'Most Sweeping Set of Anti-Corruption Reforms Since Watergate'](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat corruption in U.S. politics with "big, structural change to fundamentally transform our government." --------------------------------------------------------------- [No War for Oil, Say Climate Advocates, as Trump Admin Pushes for Conflict With Iran](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [Protesters hold a sign against the Iraq War outside the White House in 2004. ](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer "Oil has fueled violence and the climate emergency for far too long." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Birds of a Feather, Fascist Together': Critics Decry Trump's Decision to Join India's Modi Onstage at Houston Event](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [President Donald Trump greets India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 Japan Summit Friday, June 28, 2019 in Osaka, Japan.](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "I don't know what's more embarasssing—that Modi will appear beside Trump or that Trump will appear beside Modi. Both countries have my condolences." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [] [] Views... [] [We Need a Homes Guarantee. Now](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [Our vision for a Homes Guarantee is simple: in the wealthiest country in world’s history, we can and we must guarantee that everyone has a home. (Photo: Caelie_Frampton/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) by Linda Armitage A grassroots-led effort aims to ensure every person in the United States has safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Land Without Bread: The Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [The loosely defined proposal for a Green New Deal hits the panic button, American-style, but it does not exactly lay a cornerstone. Which is to say that it avoids prickly issues of land use – generally reserved for states and localities that regularly do battle with sacrosanct private property rights. (Photo: Dave Clark)](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) by Catherine Tumber Missing altogether from the Green New Deal is the language for protecting rural land, the very land that supports the "healthy communities" the Green New Deal aims to cultivate. --------------------------------------------------------------- [What George Carlin Taught Us About Media Propaganda by Omission: On Bernie Sanders, Medicare for All, and the Green New Deal](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at the Spin Room after the third Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas on September 12, 2019. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) by Jeff Cohen It is instructive when you realize what news outlets are doing when they only give you the "partial score." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why Greta Thunberg Inspires Me](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [The Swedish teen Greta Thunberg has become an inspiration to millions of people for a multitude of reasons. (Photo: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) by Rachel Plotkin I appreciate her reliance on scientific evidence, her unique and direct form of communicating and simplifying complex issues and the way she models a low-carbon lifestyle. --------------------------------------------------------------- [An Israeli Election That Will Decide Nothing](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [ Liberal voices were largely silent as Israel built new settlements, roads, and infrastructure, seizing Palestinian land and violating their fundamental rights. (Photo: The West Bank settlement of Givat Zeev is pictured in late December, 2016)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) by James Zogby Both Netanyahu and Blue and White know that they can claim sovereignty over large parts of the West Bank, continue to strangle Gaza, expand settlements in the West Bank and "Greater Jerusalem" and nothing will happen. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump Awaits Orders From Saudis; and Why the Houthis Could Have Done It](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) [The Houthis have the most motive of any of these actors, since the Saudis have dropped thousands of bombs on them for nearly four and a half years. (Photo: Saudi Aramco plant in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia/Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters/Screenshot) ](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AZE2Xdj0TZ) by Juan Cole We all kept saying it is dangerous to have an erratic person like Trump in the White House in case there was a major global crisis. 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