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Bernie Sanders | We Say to the Military Industrial Complex We Will Not Continue to Spend $700 Billion Per Year on War 
Sen. Bernie Sanders. (photo: Joshua Lott/Reuters)
Tim Hains, RealClearPolitics
Hains writes: "At a campaign rally Saturday in Burlington, Vermont, Sen. Bernie Sanders outlined his anti-war foreign policy, saying: 'I make no apologies for trying to do everything that I can to make sure this country does not get into another war in the Middle East.'"
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Pollution from a factory. (photo: Reuters)
Pollution from a factory. (photo: Reuters)

Florida Appoints Nation's First Chief Science Officer to Fight Climate Crisis
Jamie Ross, Guardian UK
Ross writes: "With a climate denier in the White House, Florida has created a post to help it tackle the climate crisis at a state level."
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In this photo taken May 8, 2019, Tammy Kilgore as part of her duties with the local volunteer fire department, checks high water covering a road leading to the small community of Mosby, Missouri. 'The floods, I'm tired of dealing with them, I really am,' she said. (photo: Charlie Riedel/AP)
In this photo taken May 8, 2019, Tammy Kilgore as part of her duties with the local volunteer fire department, checks high water covering a road leading to the small community of Mosby, Missouri. 'The floods, I'm tired of dealing with them, I really am,' she said. (photo: Charlie Riedel/AP)

Flood Buyout Costs Rise as Storms Intensify, Seas Surge
David A. Lieb, Associated Press
Lieb writes: "Sullivan and nearly half of the homeowners in Mosby signed up in 2016 for a program in which the government would buy and then demolish their properties rather than paying to rebuild them over and over."
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A rally for LGBT rights. (photo: Jon Shapley/Corbis)
A rally for LGBT rights. (photo: Jon Shapley/Corbis)

Tennessee Mothers Discuss Raising LGBT Kids in a State Set to 'Legalize Hate'
Khushbu Shah, Guardian UK
Shah writes: "In recent months, Republican lawmakers introduced six anti-LGBT bills, dubbed by the campaigning group Tennessee Equality Project as a Slate of Hate."
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The Local 10 Drill Team, 1972. (photo: Captain Josh Williams/ILWU Archives)
The Local 10 Drill Team, 1972. (photo: Captain Josh Williams/ILWU Archives)

Dockworkers Show Us How Unions Can Be a Powerful Force Against Racism
Peter Cole, In These Times
Cole writes: "From its inception in the 1930s, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), and particularly its San Francisco Bay Area chapter, Local 10, have preached and practiced racial equality."
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Ten Rohingya men with their hands bound kneel as members of the Myanmar security forces stand guard in Inn Din village on September 2, 2017. (photo: Reuters)
Ten Rohingya men with their hands bound kneel as members of the Myanmar security forces stand guard in Inn Din village on September 2, 2017. (photo: Reuters)

Myanmar Soldiers Jailed for Rohingya Massacre Freed After Only Months
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine."
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Cattle farms on Highway BR-317, between the cities of Rio Branco and Xapuri. Foster Brown, a geochemist at the Federal University of Acre, in a regrown patch of rainforest near his office. (photo: Fernando Martinho/ProPublica)
Cattle farms on Highway BR-317, between the cities of Rio Branco and Xapuri. Foster Brown, a geochemist at the Federal University of Acre, in a regrown patch of rainforest near his office. (photo: Fernando Martinho/ProPublica)

An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
Lisa Song and Paula Moura, ProPublica
Excerpt: "The desperate hunger for these carbon credit plans appears to have blinded many of their advocates to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't - and won't - deliver the climate benefit they promise."
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