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(Photo: Preston Ehrler/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by Jon Queally, staff writer With 99.95 percent of those who gave still able to do so again, 2020 candidate says record milestone—reached faster than any other campaign in history—"is astonishing." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Bird Emergency' as Study Shows North American Bird Population Has Fallen by Nearly One-Third in Less Than 50 Years](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [A group including tricolored blackbirds, red-winged blackbirds, and starlings take flight at the City of Santa Cruz Resource Recovery Facility on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, in Santa Cruz, Calif. ](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "We have to act now to protect the places we know birds rely on." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Total Massacre' as U.S. Drone Strike Kills 30 Farmers in Afghanistan](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [An MQ-9 Reaper drone flies a combat mission. ](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer Amnesty International said the bombing "suggests a shocking disregard for civilian life." --------------------------------------------------------------- [On Climate Strike Eve, 450+ Activists and Groups Urge United Nations to Back Global Fracking Ban](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [Md. activists ](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer On the eve of a global climate strike and just days before a major United Nations climate summit, more than 450 environmental activists and organizations sent an open letter Thursday to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urging him to support a global ban on fracking for fossil fuels, highlighting growing concerns about public health and the climate emergency. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Secretary of Corporate Interests' More Like It, Say Critics of Trump's Anti-Worker Labor Nominee](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [Eugene Scalia ](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Progressive groups and Democratic lawmakers expressed serious concerns Thursday about corporate attorney Eugene Scalia—President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Labor Department—as the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee met to consider his nomination. --------------------------------------------------------------- [After Mayor of Small Village Bans Glyphosate, Dozens of Others Join Rebellion Against French Law](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [A French mayor banned the pesticide glysophate from areas near homes in his village and inspired other municipalities to do the same. ](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer Tests on the people of Langouët showed levels of glyphosate—one of the most widely used herbicides and the active ingredient in RoundUp—in their urine up to 30 times the recommended limit. It was especially high in children. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [] [] Views... [] [25 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare for the 2020 Elections](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th by Ralph Nader Everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital. It will produce far less anxiety, dread, and fear. Can you hear that, Congress and the White House? --------------------------------------------------------------- [Teachers Should Join the Student Strikes](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [Schools should be community hubs that prepare people for the skills we will need going forward to live through climate change. (Photo: Guy Smallman/Getty Images) ](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by Jessica Garraway, David Boenke Students are striking for a future—educators should join them. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Climate Crisis Means the Wrong People Are Running the World](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [It is a parody of democracy that allows such irresponsible and corrupt gluttons to make globally important decisions. (Photo: Shutterstock)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by Tamara Pearson There is no democracy when you can't do anything about the companies polluting your rivers and air. The unbridled power of the big corporations is despotic. --------------------------------------------------------------- [What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About America](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [As wealth continues to concentrate at the top, the extremely wealthy are using it shut out students who are already hundreds of steps behind on the road to success—all to give the already affluent another boost along the way. (Photo: Shutterstock)](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by Jessicah Pierre Low-income parents risk jail for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the poor out. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Led By Our Youth, the Climate Narrative Has Changed](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [The wave of climate strikes led by young people has other parts of society joining in and following their lead - trade unions, human rights organisations and others. (Photo: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by Jenny Ricks The lack of meaningful and radical action from our governments, the denial of the existence of a climate crisis, the monied interests that drive our overconsumption and reliance on fossil fuels are all trying to prevent radical and effective solutions to the climate emergency—these are the usual... --------------------------------------------------------------- [Here We Go Again: Neoliberal Centrists Are Anointing One of Their Own—and It Could Cost Us](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [Democratic presidential hopefuls former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speak during the second round of the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by CNN at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on July 31, 2019. (Photo: Jim Waton/AFP/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) by John Atcheson Running a candidate who will advocate policies that are embraced by the elite are done in the interests of the oligarchy is literally the only path that leads to a Trump victory in 2020. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aiz7isU7Th) [] [] Newswire... 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