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[] ['Look a Dying Man in the Eyes': Activist Ady Barkan Wants Joe Biden to Sit Down and Talk About Medicare for All](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [Activist Ady Barkan asked former Vice President Joe Biden to meet with him on Wednesday. ](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "Look a dying man in the eyes and tell me how we fix this country." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Day After Trump Denigrates Homeless, Sanders Unveils $2.5 Trillion #HousingForAll Plan to Address Crisis](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [A pedestrian walks past tents and trash ](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer In the wake of "abhorrent" comments made by President Donald Trump about homeless people, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday unveiled his $2.5 trillion "Housing for All" plan, which calls for building millions of affordable housing units and providing billions of dollars in rental assistance over a decade. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['What the Hell Is Going On Here'?: Alarm Raised as Trump's Intelligence Director Refuses to Give Whistleblower Complaint to Congress](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb by Julia Conley, staff writer Protocols put in place to protect government whistleblowers were in jeopardy Wednesday—potentially at the direction of President Donald Trump, according to a top Democrat—as the acting Director of National Intelligence refused to share a whistleblower's complaint with Congress, as required by law. --------------------------------------------------------------- [WATCH: With Gun Control Measures Held Up In Congress, 'Gut Punch' PSA Shows Children Trying to Survive School Shooting](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) 1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb by Julia Conley, staff writer A new PSA released Wednesday by the non-profit group Sandy Hook Promise showed the reality children face as they head back to school—one marked not only by back-to-school shopping but by active shooter drills and fears that their school could be the next target of a mass shooting. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Disputing Trump Claims, Japan Says No Evidence Iran Was Behind Saudi Attack](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) 1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb by Jake Johnson, staff writer "We are not aware of any information that points to Iran," said Japanese defense minister Taro Kono. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Greta Thunberg Just Delivered Her Testimony to US Lawmakers: It Was a Landmark UN Climate Report](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg (L) speaks as This Is Zero Hour co-founder Jamie Margolin (C) and Alliance for Climate Education fellow Vic Barrett (R) look on during a joint hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Europe, Eurasia, Energy and the Environment Subcommittee, and the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 18, 2019. (Photo: Alastair Pike/AFP/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Rather than delivering prepared remarks, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg submitted a landmark United Nations report on global warming as testimony at a U.S. House hearing Wednesday and urged federal lawmakers to heed experts' warnings about the necessity of ambitious, urgent efforts to address the planetary emergency. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [] [] Views... [] [Parents, Time to Misbehave and Climate Strike With Your Kids](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [Isn't time for parents and adults to "misbehave," walk out of our offices and join our kids in the streets for the crisis of our times? (Photo: Nicolò Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) by Jeff Biggers Our kids get it: While schools and parents wring their hands and debate over issuing "excused absences" for missed classes, they have ignored the fact that the surge of carbon emissions last year increasingly renders a bleak future. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Will Americans Let Trump Start World War III for Saudi Arabia and Israel?](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [An image grab taken from a video made available by al-Huthi Media Office on September 18, 2019 shows what they say are satellite images of before (R) and after last week's attack on Saudi Aramco's oil fields. Yemen's Iranian-backed Huthi rebels claimed responsibility for last week's oil installation attacks, which took out half the Kingdom's production, although Washington and Riyadh have roundly rejected the claim and blamed Iran instead. (Photo: Al-Huthi Group Media Office / AFP) (Photo credit should read](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies If Congress successfully reclaims its constitutional authority over the US role in this conflict, it could be a critical turning point in ending the state of permanent war that the U.S. has inflicted on itself and the world since 2001. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Removing the Profit From Our Pills: The Case for a Public Pharma System](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [One in four Americans with chronic illnesses say they are forced to skip filling prescriptions regularly due to cost. (Photo: StockMonkeys.com)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) by Fran Quigley The American people are ready to extract the profit from our pills, and this new report shows us how to do it. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Secret GOP Plan to Keep Power](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [The Supreme Court recently ruled it has no power to intervene when states use partisan gerrymandering to draw these maps, saying it is an issue for state legislatures and state courts. (Photo: Screenshot) ](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) by Robert Reich Despite the fact that Republicans continually receive fewer raw votes in national elections, they could regain control of the House through gerrymandering. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Global Climate Strike: Kids Are Demanding Action, But Will Adults Act?](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [Fighting for a future: Young protesters at the Global Climate Strike in London on March 15, 2019. (Photo: Garry Knight/Flickr)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) by Reynard Loki There’s growing frustration, particularly among the world’s youth, with how adults have so horribly mismanaged the climate crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Emperor’s New-Old Nuclear Clothes](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [One is that the longstanding refusal of most members of the U.S. political elite (officials, legislators, think-tankers, corporate media, and so on) to even mention the fact of Israel’s own nuclear-weapons capabilities and to take full account of them in public discussions of strategic matters in the Middle East is extremely harmful. (Photo: Avi Ohayun/Israeli govt/cc/flickr)](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) by Helena Cobban Israel wants to keep leaders in Washington distracted and always a little off-balance, so they will end up without the bandwidth and the stamina needed to confront Israel over the continuation of colonial expansion in the lands occupied in 1967. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AOpkATACsb) [] [] Newswire... 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