News & Views | Trump Denies Climate Change Is Threat to National Security

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) to view this message in a browser window.  [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) [] [] News & Views | 12/18/17 [] Feature... [] [Ignoring Public Opinion and Pentagon, Trump Denies Climate Change Is Threat to National Security](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) 1f9d0/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E by Julia Conley, staff writer While 56 percent of Americans and the Pentagon hold that the deepening climate crisis is a serious threat to the country's safety, President Donald Trump left the issue out of his speech on his national security strategy on Monday—angering critics and green groups. [] [] News... [] [GOP Tax Plan Would Give 15 of America's Largest Corporations a $236B Tax Cut: Report](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) 1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E by Jake Johnson, staff writer In yet "further proof that the Republican tax bill is a massive giveaway to the largest corporations in the country," a new report (pdf) prepared for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and published on Monday found that 15 of America's most profitable corporations would receive a combined $236 billion tax cut if the GOP plan becomes law. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sen. Bob Corker Could Save $1.1 Million Per Year From GOP Tax Scam 'Kickback'](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) 1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E by Jake Johnson, staff writer The firestorm of outrage sparked by a provision in the GOP tax bill that would personally enrich Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and President Donald Trump continued to grow Monday as a leading economist estimated that, if passed, the measure could shave over $1.1 million from Corker's taxes each year. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Braving the Elements, Resistance Groups Make Final Push to Defeat #GOPTaxScam](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) 1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E by Common Dreams staff Resistance groups gathered at Republican lawmakers' offices on Monday in a final push to defeat the tax bill that's expected to leave 13 million without health insurance, send the deficit soaring by nearly $1.5 trillion, and raise taxes for working American families while ensuring a permanent tax cut for corporations and the wealthy. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Can you help Common Dreams raise the $75,000 needed to close the books on 2017? 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Security Council resolution that sought to nullify President Donald Trump's recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. --------------------------------------------------------------- [UN Expert Just Offered a Brutal Takedown on US Inequality and How the #GOPTaxScam Will Make It Worse](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) ["The American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Illusion as the U.S. ... now has the lowest rate of social mobility of any of the rich countries," said U.N special rapporteur Philip Alston. (Photo: Dale Cruse/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer A United Nations independent expert presented a searing indictment of the wealth gap in the United States, saying that "contrasts between private wealth and public squalor abound" and that the Republican tax plan "is essentially a bid to make the U.S. the world champion of extreme inequality." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ripping GOP for Serving Donors, Sanders and Warren Lay Out Budget Plan That Works for All](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Does Washington work for all of us or just for those at the top?" That is the question posed, and answered, by Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in a op-ed for the New York Times published Sunday night. With a tax bill written for the benefit of "wealthy campaign contributors" hurtling toward passage and with "welfare reform" targeting programs that benefit low-income and middle class Americans waiting in the wings, the Republican-controlled Congress has been quite explicit about whose interests it serves. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) [] [] Views... [] [The Triumph of the Oligarchs](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) ["The Republican Party is their vehicle. Fox News is their voice. Trump is their champion. The new tax plan is their triumph." (Photo: @srbija_eu/Twitter)](1f9d0/ct17_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) by Robert Reich They are living in their own separate society, and they want Congress and the President to represent them, not the rest of us. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Net Neutrality: What's Next and How We Win the Fight](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) 1f9d0/ct18_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E by Collette Watson It's not the end of this fight. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The GOP Tax Plan Will Complete the Destruction of America’s Middle Class Wealth](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) ["If the Republican tax plan becomes law, Americans in the Middle 40 won’t just see their share of national wealth continue to slide. They’ll see their actual wealth tumble as well." (Image: Common Dreams)](1f9d0/ct19_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) by Bob Lord In fact, if the GOP tax plan becomes law, we may be looking at a future where our 1,600 richest hold more wealth than the nation’s entire middle class. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The President Plays with Matches](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) ["The crazy comes so fast and furious these days, it’s easy to forget some of the smaller brushfires." (Photo: Getty)](1f9d0/ct20_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) by Rebecca Gordon And the whole world burns. --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Orwell Used Wartime Rationing to Argue for Global Justice](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) 1f9d0/ct21_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E by Bruce Robbins Orwell’s response to inequality between nations could be more instructive than ever --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Latin America Bucked The Trend Of Rising Inequality](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) [Teachers demand better pay in Bogota, Colombia. (Photo: EPA/Leonardo Munoz)](1f9d0/ct22_1/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) by Alice Evans Through sustained networking and resistance, which secured redistribution and recognition, many Latin Americans have come to expect more of their governments. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AMUZVBbY8E) [] [] Newswire... 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