All Views Articles for 2010-11-15
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Neve Gordon One-Sided Deal Imagine a sheriff offering the head of a criminal gang the following deal: ‘If you agree to stop stealing from your neighbours for three months, I’ll give you cutting edge weaponry and block any... Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Food Shouldn't be a Poker Chip Commodities markets are dominated by speculators who have never gotten their hands dirty in a corn field. Read more |
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Robert Naiman Will "Free Trade" Save Obama in 2012? According to the editors of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, with Republicans taking over the House, and measured unemployment at 9.6%, now is the time for... Read more |
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Robert Jensen Projecting Power or Promoting Peace: The Prophetic Call for Justice, Kindness, Humility A version of this essay was delivered at the “People’s Response to the George W. Bush Library and Policy Institute” event at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, on November 14, 2010. Read more |
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Michelle Chen White House Says Child Soldiers Are Ok, if They Fight Terrorists “You cannot be completely happy with all these wounds—both in your body and in your mind.” — 15 year-old child soldier Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman America's Eggshell Nukes The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made it clear that America's 104 licensed atomic power reactors are not accidents waiting to happen. They are accidents in progress. And proposals to build a... Read more |
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Naomi Klein G20 Trials and the War on Activism The following speech was made by Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein at the telethon held to raise funds the legal costs of G20 protesters. The telethon took place in Toronto on Nov. 11 and... Read more |
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Robert Kuttner What Planet Are Deficit Hawks Living on? To read the papers and watch TV news during the past week, you would think that the most dire problem afflicting Americans was the federal deficit in 2020 or 2030. But for most people, the crisis... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC),... Read more |
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Subhankar Banerjee Another One Hundred Years of Fossil–Digging in North America? Soon I'll will tell you about five Godzilla-scale fossil-digging projects in North America that if approved will set us on a course to repeat our past with grave implications for the future of our... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Our Imperial Stimulus Package: War to the Horizon You must have had a moment when you thought to yourself: It really isn't going to end, is it? Not ever. Rationally, you know perfectly well that whatever your "it" might be will indeed end, because... Read more |