All Views Articles for 2010-10-25
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George Monbiot The Tea Party Movement: Deluded and Inspired by Billionaires By funding numerous rightwing organisations, the mega-rich Koch brothers have duped millions into supporting big business Read more |
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Ellen Knickmeyer WikiLeaks Exposes Rumsfeld's Lies In the dark morning hours of Feb. 22, 2006, a group of unknown attackers detonated bombs in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, bringing down the golden dome of a revered Shia Muslim shrine. Read more |
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Pierre Tristam How Republicans Became America’s Arabs A few weeks after Israel crushed Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the 1967 Arab Israeli war, tripled its size and expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Arab nations gathered for a summit in the... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The World Liberal Opportunists Made The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is the product of bankrupt liberal... Read more |
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Sam Pizzigati Mapping Global Wealth Credit Suisse reveals the world's staggering inequality. Read more |
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Sara K. Gould and Susan Wefald Out Cry: Ending Violence Against LGBTQ Youth Another week, another name to add to the list of gay children dead by their own hands. The newest entry: a young woman by the name of Aiyisha Hassan. Read more |
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David Smith-Ferri Bamiyan Diaries, Day Four: “Tell Them to Come to Afghanistan and Make Friends” Again and again in this isolated Afghan province, when visiting Afghan people in their homes or when talking with members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (AYPV), we have heard this message: “We... Read more |
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown A Worse Record Than Saddam's It could fuel terrorism, recruitment into jihadi cells, suicide bombers and ugly attitudes towards the West. But keeping the stories hidden was always wrong Read more |
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Norman Solomon Top “Tossup” House Race for Progressives: Raul Grijalva On Sunday, when the New York Times put a "tossup" label on three dozen House races with Democrats running for re-election, there were very few genuine progressives involved. In fact, just three of... Read more |
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Anna White Rebuilding Local Economies: A Shift in Priorities From the burgeoning popularity of farmers’ markets and co-operatives to the revitalisation of community banking, people are organising to reclaim the economy from large profit-driven corporations and... Read more |
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Bill Quigley Socialism? The Rich Are Winning the US Class War: Facts Show Rich Getting Richer, Everyone Else Poorer The rich and their paid false prophets are doing a bang up job deceiving the poor and middle class. They have convinced many that an evil socialism is alive in the land and it is taking their fair... Read more |
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Rebecca Solnit Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earth This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They’ve invaded; they’ve infiltrated; they’ve conquered; and a lot of the most powerful people on Earth do their bidding, including five... Read more |