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It works for everyone, not just big corporations and the fossil fuel industry." --------------------------------------------------------------- [400+ Former Federal Prosecutors: Trump Would Face Obstruction Charges If He Weren't President](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) [President Donald Trump ](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer More than 400 former federal prosecutors asserted in a statement published on Medium Monday that President Donald Trump would face multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice if he did not hold his current office. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bernie Sanders Takes on Monsanto, Big Ag Monopolies With Plan to 'Revitalize Rural America'](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis by Jake Johnson, staff writer "What you want, and what I want, are more family farms in America, not more factory farms." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Treating Gun Violence 'As the Epidemic That It Is,' Cory Booker Wins Praise for Sweeping Gun Control Plan](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) 1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis by Julia Conley, staff writer National gun control groups and progressives offered praise on Monday for Sen. Cory Booker's proposal "to end the gun violence epidemic," with some advocates calling the plan the most ambitious of any gun control action plan offered by the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Critics Condemn 'Double Dehumanization' of Palestinians by Corporate Media as Headlines Focus on Israeli Casualties](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) 1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis by Julia Conley, staff writer Human rights advocates and progressives in Congress on Monday slammed the corporate media for perpetuating anti-Palestinian sentiments in their reporting on the violence in Gaza and Israel over the weekend—barely mentioning Palestinians who were killed by Israeli missiles and providing no context for how the violence began. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pompeo, in Finland, Calls China Claims to Arctic 'Lawlessness'](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) [Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks Monday at the Arctic Council meeting in Finland. ](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer Pompeo likened the situation to the South China Sea: "fraught with militarization and competing territorial claims." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) [] [] Views... [] [The Reality Behind the ‘Surging’ U.S. Economy](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) [For ordinary Americans, the slight uptick in wages is not enough to make up for many years of stagnation.(Photo: Stand Up KC/Twitter)](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) by Sarah Anderson A tiny uptick in wages won't do much to help Americans squeezed by debt and facing rising prices for medicine, child care, housing, and other essentials --------------------------------------------------------------- [Humanity Is About to Kill 1 Million Species in a Globe-Spanning Murder-Suicide](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) [Environmentalism ain’t for the birds. (Photo: Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) by Eric Levitz Earth’s ecosystems did not evolve to thrive amid the conditions that a global, advanced capitalist civilization of 7 billion humans has created --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Social Security Trustees Consistently Agree: The Program is Well-Funded](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) [The government could allocate enough money into the trust fund without changing taxes at all as long as there are enough resources in the economy.(Photo: AFGE/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) by Adewale Maye, Kevin Cashman Since the program is vital to so many Americans, there are also clear ways it could even be expanded --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Anniversary Waltz](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) [This year also marks the 50th anniversaries of the late Kurt Vonnegut’s great antiwar novel, Slaughterhouse Five, and my college newspaper, The Georgetown Voice. (Photo: Kurt Vonnegut/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) by Michael Winship In these turbulent times more than ever, memory is a blessing and a curse. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fearful Democrats and the False Allure of Policy Centrism](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) [Joe Biden is basing his candidacy on the proposition that he will be able to win over significant numbers of Republican voters, once they see that he's more moderate than other Democrats and realize what a repellent human being Donald Trump is. Here, Biden speaks during a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Photo: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) by Paul Waldman In an era of hyper-partisanship, going moderate may not be a winning strategy --------------------------------------------------------------- [Creeping Toward Tyranny](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) [The hollowing out of our democratic institutions, which cannot be blamed on Trump, makes tyranny inevitable.(Photo: Mr. Fish / Truthdig) ](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) by Chris Hedges Capitalists, throughout history, have backed fascism to thwart even the most tepid forms of socialism --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3A8mBf4yxis) [] [] Newswire... 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