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Bill McKibben on Hurricanes and Wildfires: "We Have Never Had Anything Like Them"
Author and activist Bill McKibben. (photo: 350.org)
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "People who aren't in the middle of these disasters have no idea how bad they are."
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Air Carriers Are Gouging Travelers Trying to Escape the Wrath of Hurricane Irma
Kelli B. Grant, CNBC
Grant writes: "Consumers took to social media this week to complain about price gouging out of Florida ahead of the Category 5 storm."
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70 Years for Filming a Protest? This Is Actually Happening in Trump's America
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
Excerpt: "We urge authorities to drop all charges against the journalists and to respect the basic freedom of journalists to report on public interest protests."
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Elizabeth Warren Is the Latest Senator to Officially Support Medicare for All
Addy Baird, ThinkProgress
Baird writes: "It's looking increasingly likely that supporting single-payer health care will be the standard for Democratic lawmakers who want to be considered serious 2020 candidates, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced Thursday that she will co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) Medicare for All bill."
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ICE Was Going After Dreamers Even Before Trump Killed DACA
Keegan Hamilton, VICE
Hamilton writes: "What Trump has failed to mention is that immigration agents have been targeting Dreamers and eroding the protections afforded by DACA since the day he took office."
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Israel Continues Arms Sales to Myanmar Despite Its Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
Areeb Ullah, Middle East Eye
Ullah writes: "Israel has continued to sell weapons to Myanmar as thousands of Rohingya refugees flee the military's violent crackdown in the Rakhine state."
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Deforestation Has Double the Effect on Global Warming Than Previously Thought
Aristos Georgiou, International Business Times
Georgiou writes: "In the fight against climate change, much of the focus rests on reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and developing alternative energy sources. However, the results of a new study suggest that far more attention should be paid to deforestation and how the land is used subsequently - the effects of which make a bigger contribution to climate change than previously thought."
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