All Views Articles for 2011-03-31
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Jeff Biggers Nation Celebrates Arizona Cesar Chavez, As AZ Launches Air Posse On the eve of Arizona’s most famous native son’s celebrated birthday, Phoenix-area Sheriff Joe Arpaio unveiled his latest media stunt, the war-time invoking Operation Desert Sky- -a 30-plane air... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Battle Over Censorship of Maine Murals Part of a Larger Struggle for Basic Rights and Justice Maine Gov. Paul LePage and Fox broadcaster Glenn Beck not only share right-wing political views, but they both fancy themselves art critics. Two years ago Beck went on a rampage attacking murals on... Read more |
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Andy Kroll Return to Wisconsin: The Beginning or the End? It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends . -- Joan Didion Read more |
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Michael Ratner To Hell with the Constitution: Obama Goes To War How is it that Congress isn't screaming at President Obama for usurping its power to take this nation to war against Libya? (Even Bushes #41 and #43 had their wars in Afghanistan and Iraq authorized... Read more |
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Wenonah Hauter No Quick Subsidies Fix for Food System Over the last decade, the sustainable food movement has brought much needed attention to U.S. agricultural policy and how it influences which foods Americans grow, buy, and consume. From chefs and... Read more |
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Laura Flanders Bring the No-Fly Zone Home to Arizona Could Obama and his supporters take a break from celebrating so-called no-fly zones—and take a look at what's happening in Arizona? Gaddafi, after all, isn't the only one using military technology... Read more |
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Robert Reich The Awful, Unsaid Truth: We’re Heading Back Toward a Double Dip The Truth About the Economy that Nobody In Washington Or On Wall Street Will Admit Read more |
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Soumaya Ghannoushi After Unscripted Arab Drama, the West Sneaks Back on Set People were not rebelling solely against dictators but the economic model. Yet foreign interests may again be calling the shots Read more |
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Michael Schwalbe A Primer on Class Struggle When we study Marx in my graduate social theory course, it never fails that at least one student will say (approximately), “Class struggle didn’t escalate in the way Marx expected. In modern... Read more |
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Mary Bottari Wisconsin Governor Defies Court, Prepares for Coronation Wisconsin continues to spin out of control and a constitutional crisis looms as a judge this week again ordered Walker’s administration to halt implementation of his bill stripping Wisconsin public... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Corporations at Tax Time: Who's Good, Who's Bad, and Who's Very Ugly It's tempting to blame government for our middle-income 15-20% tax rates. But the true culprits have documented their own guilt. Comprehensive financial reports called '10-Ks' are issued annually to... Read more |
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Jim Horn, Rachel Squires Bloom Cash Incentives: Yet Another Way to Destroy Quality Education Expelling Care from the Teacher-Child Relation Read more |
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Danny Schechter Shutdown: The Political War In Washington Forget Libya; the real bombing is underway elsewhere. Pay less attention to Pakistan; the drone attacks there pale in comparison. The real US war is about to erupt in Washington pitting those who... Read more |
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Karl Grossman Nuclear Disaster and Obama's Disastrous Response President Barack Obama’s support this week for the construction of more nuclear power plants in the United States, amid the ongoing nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, must be considered --... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Charles Davis Obama on Libya: George W. Bush 2.0 His lines may be better delivered, but Barack Obama is sounding – and acting – more like the heir to George W. Read more |
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Linh Dinh Heartwarming Massacres from Iraq to Libya On January 28, 2003, George W. Bush gave a 50-minute State of the Union address, nearly half of which was devoted to his decision to invade Iraq. During this segment, he didn’t mention oil or, God... Read more |