All Views Articles for 2011-05-05
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Wendell Potter Are Health Insurers Writing Health Reform Regulations? One of the reasons I wanted to return to journalism after a long career as an insurance company PR man was to keep an eye on the implementation of the new health reform law. Many journalists who... Read more |
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Janet McMahon AIPAC, a Not-So-Benign Night Flower One could be forgiven for thinking that the last three letters of AIPAC stand for “political action committee.” But since the American Israel Public Affairs Committee does not itself make campaign... Read more |
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Allison Kilkenny Obama Administration Plans Corporate Tax Cut In Year Of Record Profits As nationwide budget protests continue this week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is prepared to unveil the Obama administration’s plan to lower the top corporate tax rate from the current 35... Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins The Xtremes: Subversive Recipes for Catastrophic Times "In just a few short months, we’ve witnessed people power in action. From the Middle East to the Midwest, movements have risen up to overturn tired dogma and challenge entrenched power. Many of us... Read more |
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Ray McGovern What Has Bin Laden's Killing Wrought? As America’s morbid celebrations over the killing of Osama bin Laden begin to fade, we are left with a new landscape of risks – and opportunities – created by his slaying at the hands of a U.S... Read more |
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Beverly Bell Haiti: Just When You Think It Can't Get Any Worse We may soon look back on this period in Haiti with greater appreciation. Amidst the world-historic levels of death and suffering from last January’s earthquake, citizens have at least been spared the... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Dead and Alive: Osama's American Legacy It’s Time to Stop Celebrating and Go Back to Kansas Read more |
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Tom Athanasiou Tax Justice as Climate Justice What the “We're Not Broke” Backlash Means for the Climate Read more |
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Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Aric McBay Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet A black tern weighs barely two ounces. On bodily reserves less than a bag of M&Ms and wings that stretch to cover twelve inches, she’ll fly thousands of miles, searching for the wetlands that... Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Palestinian Unity and the New Middle East Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the Hamas-Fatah deal in Cairo was both swift and predictable. “The Palestinian Authority must choose either peace with Israel or peace with... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit How Does Big Oil Gouge Us? Let Us Count the Ways It's not just at the gas pump. The oil companies don't pay much in federal income taxes , either. Over the past five years Exxon has paid at a 3.6% rate (federal tax as a percentage of total pre-tax... Read more |
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Rania Khalek With Liberty and Justice for… Corporations? On April 27, 2011, the Supreme Court of the United States once again ruled in favor of big business. In the highly anticipated case of AT&T Mobility v. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Unholy Grail Perhaps the eeriest thing about Osama bin Laden’s death is how little it means. Read more |