All Views Articles for 2010-01-22
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Robert Weissman Shed a Tear for Our Democracy Yesterday, in the case Citizens United v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence election outcomes. Money... Read more |
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Barbara Rhine Rebuilding a Livable City in Haiti We were eating dinner in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, when the earthquake struck at 4:53 p.m. As Californians, we knew the meaning of the pictures tumbling from the wall. We grabbed hands and ran outside... Read more |
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Juan Cole Ignoring Gaza's Humanitarian Crisis Haiti isn't the only place that needs help, but in Gaza, Israel is keeping aid away Read more |
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Naomi Klein Revisiting The Shock Doctrine in the Wake of Haiti Disaster Editor's note: In the aftermath of the January 12th earthquake that ravaged (and continues to ravage) Haiti , as we witness the bravery and dignity of survivors and relief workers, we are wise to... Read more |
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Michael Waldman Campaign Finance Ruling Reflects Supreme Court's Growing Audacity The Supreme Court on Thursday upended a century's worth of campaign finance law . An immediate question raised by the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision is whether this will... Read more |
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Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil Whose Rights? A new Supreme Court decision promotes corporate rights at the expense of the rights of citizens. What happens when the legal structure itself stands in the way of democracy? Read more |
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Juell Stewart At Last! SCOTUS Finally Allows Corporations to Influence US Politics In a move that’s sure to create such political offices as “Georgia’s Junior Senator, brought to you by Coca-Cola,” the New York Times reports that the Supreme Court has run roughshod over decades of... Read more |
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David Michael Green How to Squander the Presidency in One Year Hey, Conan Obama: How About Now? Can You Hear Us Now? Read more |
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Mark Danner To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature Haiti is everybody's cherished tragedy. Long before the great earthquake struck the country like a vengeful god, the outside world, and Americans especially, described, defined, marked Haiti most of... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Obama to Indefinitely Imprison Detainees without Charges One of the most intense controversies of the Bush years was the administration's indefinite imprisoning of "War on Terror" detainees without charges of any kind. So absolute was the consensus among... Read more |
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Ingrid Newkirk A Pragmatic Fight for Animal Rights Despite criticism, we at Peta believe compromises and funny antics are necessary to the real work of animal protection Read more |
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Moazzam Begg The Truth about Guantánamo I have always believed that the secret detention sites - where prisoners were waterboarded - and military prisons, such as Bagram , were far worse than Guantánamo. Now I'm not so sure. They once... Read more |
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Nomi Prins Obama's Half-Baked Bank Reform For Real Reform, Glass-Steagall Must be Brought Back Read more |
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Johann Hari The Age of the Killer Robot is No Longer a Sci-Fi Fantasy You can't appeal to robots for mercy or empathy - or punish them afterwards Read more |
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Sarah Lazare US Policy: More War, Less Relief As Haiti asks the world for help turning around the destruction wrought by the January 12 th earthquake, the U.S. is funding destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Obama is expected to ask... Read more |
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Scott Klinger If Corporations Were Human Yesterday's Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case removes all limits on large corporations to finance and influence federal elections. In its ruling the Court reverse a decades old... Read more |