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A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [] News & Views | 8/6/19 [] Feature... [] ['Biggest Crisis No One Is Talking About': Quarter of Humanity Faces 'Extremely High Water Stress' Intensified by Climate Emergency](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [A child sits in an area affected by a drought ](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer An analysis released Tuesday warns that 17 countries which are collectively home to a quarter of the global population face "extremely high water stress" that is on track to get worse—particularly because of the human-caused climate emergency. [] [] News... [] [Democratic Voters Rank Bernie Sanders as 'Most Qualified' 2020 Candidate to Solve US Healthcare Crisis](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) 1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7 by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Bernie Sanders's fight to guarantee healthcare to all Americans through a Medicare for All system is not only a moral necessity—polls show it is also the most compelling healthcare message to mobilize voters." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Citing Racist Massacres and 'Inexcusable' Prevalence of Guns, Foreign Countries Issue Travel Safety Warnings for United States](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) 1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7 by Julia Conley, staff writer While President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have spent the past several years claiming that immigrants and travelers from other countries pose a threat to Americans, the two shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend forced two countries to warn their own citizens of the dangers that lurk within U.S. borders. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ocasio-Cortez Responds to Photo of McConnell Supporters Groping Cutout: 'Is This Just Standard Culture of Team Mitch?'](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7 by Jake Johnson, staff writer "These young men look like they work for you. Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping & choking members of Congress w/ your payroll...?" --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Another Nail in the Coffin' of Democracy and Journalism as US Newspaper Giants Gannett and GateHouse Announce $1.4 Billion Merger](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) 1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7 by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Hundreds of communities and ultimately our democracy will pay the price for this deal. Less journalism and less deep-dive investigative reporting will only lead to less informed citizens." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Youth and Workers Uniting Behind This Crisis': German Labor Union Urges 2 Million Members to Join Global Climate Strike](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) 1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7 by Jake Johnson, staff writer "This is leadership. Who will follow? The world is watching," said 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg --------------------------------------------------------------- ['This Is Us': In Wake of El Paso, Eddie Glaude Delivers 'Incredibly Powerful' Statement on US History of Racism and Violence—And You Can't Just Blame Trump](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [Eddie Glaude, a Princeton University professor and MSNBC contributor, said Monday night that while Trump's own racism cannot be ignored, the fact of the matter is that the president is "a manifestation of the ugliness" that pervades the nation. (Photo: Screenshot/MSNBC)](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) by Jon Queally, staff writer "And if we're gonna get past this, we can't blame it on [Trump]. He's a manifestation of the ugliness that's in us." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [] [] Views... [] [Jobs, the Environment, and a Planet in Crisis](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [Despite challenges from parts of both the labor and the environmental movements, which its sponsors had undoubtedly hoped would be among its strongest supporters, Markey and Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal resolution has gone a remarkably long way toward putting a genuine discussion of what an effective and just climate policy might look like in the public arena for the first time. (Photo: Emelia Gold)](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) by Aviva Chomsky Unions vs. Environmentalists or Unions and Environmentalists? --------------------------------------------------------------- [In the US Killing Fields, We're Now Way Past "Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough"](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [Yamileth Lopez holds a photo of her deceased friend Javier Amir Rodriguez at a makeshift memorial for victims outside Walmart, near the scene of a mass shooting which left at least 22 people dead, on August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. Rodriguez was a sophomore at Horizon High School and was killed in the shooting. A 21-year-old white male suspect remains in custody in El Paso, which sits along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) by Phyllis Bennis It's long past time to say the crisis is a crisis of white supremacy and racist xenophobic violence—rooted in US history but now enabled and encouraged and cheered on by a white supremacist racist xenophobic president --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia and to Ban the Bomb](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [ Let us tell the truth about what happened between the US and Russia that brought us to this perilous moment and put the responsibility where it belong. (Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) by Alice Slater If the US and Russia can’t settle their differences and honor their promise in the NPT to eliminate their nuclear weapons, the whole world will continue to live under threats of unimaginable catastrophic humanitarian suffering and destruction. --------------------------------------------------------------- [China Isn't the Economic Manipulator in This Trade War. Trump Is](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [A bank employee counts US currency and Chinese currency notes at a bank on August 6, 2019 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province of China. The onshore exchange rate of the Chinese currency fell beyond 7 per US dollar on August 5. (Photo: Xu Jinbai/VCG via Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) by Jeffrey D. Sachs The truth is this: Trump just can't wrap his mind around international trade --------------------------------------------------------------- [What Medicare for All Would Have Meant a Decade Ago](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [Imagine if, from birth, a new generation could experience guaranteed care, with quality not determined by wealth or income, but instead delivered as the human right it should be. (Photo: Sen. Bernie Sanders/Twitter)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) by Jarod Facundo Imagine if a new generation could experience guaranteed care, with quality not determined by wealth or income, but instead delivered as the human right it should be. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hiroshima and the New Arms Race—No Winners](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [Nuclear war and climate change are the two existential threats we face today. (Photo:US Department of Defense)](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) by Robert Dodge When our children’s children look back, it will be noted and remembered what side of history we were on when our planet was threatened. The choice is ours. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9WiichNA7) [] [] Newswire... 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