All Views Articles for 2009-05-27
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Glenn Greenwald Justice Samuel Alito on Empathy and Judging As is true for any Supreme Court nominee, there are many legitimate questions to raise about Sonia Sotomayor, but the smear attacks on her as some sort of "identity politics" poster child -- which... Read more |
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David Sirota Teabags vs. Douchebags Why this may not be the second coming of the New Deal after all. Read more |
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Linda Martín Alcoff Sotomayor’s Reasoning Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor has brought the relationship of identity to judgment center stage in the national debates. Sotomayor was widely cited leading up to yesterday's nomination... Read more |
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Matthew Rothschild FBI Infiltrates Iowa City Protest Group He was very well dressed. He claimed he'd been in the military. But he said when he was ordered to go to Iraq, he refused and was granted conscientious objector status. That's how activists in Iowa... Read more |
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Andy Worthington Guantánamo and the Many Failures of US Politicians In the summer of 2002, as Jane Mayer described it in her book The Dark Side , "The CIA, concerned by the paucity of valuable information emanating from [Guantánamo], dispatched a senior intelligence... Read more |
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Michael Schwalbe Radical Vision and Elbow Grease An unfortunate side effect of the election of Barack Obama has been to fuel the American tendency to reduce politics to personality. The obvious contrast between the young, charismatic, articulate,... Read more |
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SF Chronicle Editorial Proposition 8 Ruling: Separate and Unequal The marriage rights of Californians now fall into three categories. Heterosexual couples have access to all rights, responsibilities - and the name - of marriage. Gays and lesbians who were married... Read more |
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John Feffer Nightmare on Cheney Street Horror movies usually follow the same script. The monster - whether genetically modified, abused as a child, or flown in from Alpha Centauri - picks off the frightened teenagers one by one. After... Read more |
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Tad Daley Taking North Korea at Their Word Pyongyang has consistently said that its nuclear weapons are intended to deter aggression. And, indeed, they do. Read more |
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Single Payer Action Disruption of Congress or Corruption of Congress? Single Payer Trial for the Baucus 13 Read more |
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Tom Hayden The Silence of MoveOn The most powerful grassroots organization of the peace movement, MoveOn, remains silent as the American wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan simmer or escalate. Read more |
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Faramarz Farbod Obama and Iran: New Hopes, Old Dangers Obama has indeed done the right thing to initiate diplomacy with Iran. Most Iranians, government officials or not, welcome it. However, the present historical moment is still fraught with danger even... Read more |
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Donna Smith Baucus 8 Charged: It’s an Outrage Outdone Only by Their Humanity They arrived on May 26 to the DC courthouse in business dress and on time. The single payer supporters now known as the Baucus 8 who were arrested on May 5, 2009, in your United States Senate hearing... Read more |
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Amy Goodman Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil The economy is a shambles, unemployment is soaring, the auto industry is collapsing. But profits are higher than ever at oil companies Chevron and Shell. Yet across the globe, from the Ecuadorian... Read more |
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Robert Scheer Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids All sorts of startling conclusions are being drawn about the failure of California's ballot funding initiatives last week. Newt Gingrich hailed it as another Boston Tea Party, and New York Times... Read more |