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A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) [] [] News & Views | 2/5/19 [] Feature... [] [Whatever You Paid to Watch Netflix Last Month Was More Than It Paid in Income Taxes All Last Year: $0](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) 1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs by Jon Queally, staff writer Whether you paid $8.99 for basic, $12.99 for standard, or splurged for the $15.99 premium package so you would have the privilege of watching endless streaming shows and movies on Netflix last month, a new analysis shows you still paid much, much more than the company paid in federal and local... [] [] News... [] [Bernie Sanders' "Raise the Wage Act" Would Make Life Better for 40 Million Americans: Analysis](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) [fight for $15](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer By increasing the federal minimum wage over the next five years, the Raise the Wage Act of 2019 would boost the incomes and improve the lives of an estimated 40 million Americans, according to an analysis out Tuesday from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Trump Spreads 'Division' and 'Denial' in SOTU Address, Sunrise Movement Will Present Plan to Achieve Green New Deal](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) 1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs by Jake Johnson, staff writer As president delivers State of the Union address, youth climate leaders will lay out a strategy "to bring the Green New Deal to every corner of this country" --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Energy for Medicare for All Soars, Pelosi Aide Reportedly Assured Insurance Industry That Democratic Leaders Remain 'Allies'](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Seventy percent of Americans support Medicare for All. Congress should listen to the people, not water down and stifle policy supported by the majority." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warning More Surveillance Would Violate Civil Liberties at Border and Beyond, Rights Groups Say So-Called "Smart Wall" Is Dumb](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) 1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs by Julia Conley, staff writer Warning of serious rights violations at the southern U.S. border that could make way for similar infringements all over the country, more than two dozen civil liberties and immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday urged members of Congress to withhold all additional funding for expanded technological surveillance at the Mexico border. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Take John Bolton to The Hague!': Peace Activists Protest Outside National Security Advisor's Home](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) [Peace activists with CODEPINK](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Peace activists with the group CODEPINK arrived at the home of National Security Advisor John Bolton early Tuesday morning to deliver a symbolic indictment for his participation in war crimes against the people of Venezuela, Palestine, Iran, and Iraq. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bolstering Case to End American Role, Saudis Reportedly Providing US Weapons to al-Qaeda Forces in Yemen](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs by Jake Johnson, staff writer "It is nearly impossible to overstate how backwards and counterproductive our bipartisan obsession with arming the world is, but here's example number 7,439." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) [] [] Views... [] [We Welcome Asylum Seekers and Defend Their Rights](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs by Rev. William Barber II, Noam Chomsky, Noura Erakat, Tom Morello, at al. An open letter from over one hundred artists, activists, scholars, and writers --------------------------------------------------------------- [Disaster Capitalism in Brazil: Mining Greed Produces a Horrific Death Toll](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) [Aerial view of rail bridge taken down by a mudslide after the collapse of a dam at an iron-ore mine belonging to Brazil’s giant mining company Vale near the town of Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerias, southeastern Brazil (Photo: BNN) ](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) by Vijay Prashad A mining disaster in the Brazilian town of Brumadinho --------------------------------------------------------------- [Living Like It Matters: Silver Linings in the Very Dark Cloud of Climate Catastrophe](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) [Each of us must navigate the uncertainty and upheavals ahead in our own way, following our personal compass. (Photo: via Earth Island Journal)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) by Elizabeth West Death offers wise and consoling advice if you have the courage to listen --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lost in TrumpWorld: What Matters and What Doesn't](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) [What term best describes a war that has cost something like a trillion dollars, killed and maimed tens of thousands, and produced a protracted stalemate? (Photo: JCS via Flickr)](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) by Andrew Bacevich War in the shadows (of you know who) --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Military Coup in Venezuela? Not Without the Military’s Support](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) [Juan Guaidó speaking in Caracas on January 21, 2018 (Luis Dávila/República Bolivariana de Venezuela).](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) by Ociel Alí López A military coup d’état in Venezuela doesn’t seem likely so long as the Armed Forces support Maduro. Meanwhile, U.S. action will likely backfire, and serve only to strengthen those in power --------------------------------------------------------------- [The State of Our Disunion](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) [Trump thrives on divisiveness. It’s how he keeps himself the center of attention, fuels his base and ensures that no matter what facts are revealed, his followers will stick by him. (Photo: AFP/Timothy A. Clary)](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) by Robert Reich Trump, along with the Republicans and perhaps some corporate Democrats, would rather opponents focus on the ethnic, racial and gender differences he uses to divide and conquer --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3ARndbz5DRs) [] [] Newswire... 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