All Views Articles for 2011-06-07
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Jeff Biggers Arizona Ethnic Studies Showdown: As Teachers Heal Tucson, Will Extremist Officials Escalate Crisis This Week? Only days after college-bound Ethnic Studies graduates collected their diplomas and a widely praised Tucson forum allowed the community to discuss the city's acclaimed Ethnic Studies/Mexican American... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Joys of Repressed Voyeuristic Titillation There are few things more sickening -- or revealing -- to behold than a D.C. Read more |
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Jodi Jacobson Almost Fifty Years After Griswold, We're Still Fighting for Access to Contraception June 7th, 2011 marks the 45th anniversary of the landmark 1965 Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut , which legalized family planning and the right to individual privacy in family planning... Read more |
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Greg Grandin With Ollanta Humala's Win, Peru Joins Latin America's Left Turn Add Peru to the list of Latin American countries that have turned left. On Sunday, Peruvians voted in a second-round run-off ballot and elected Ollanta Humala, a 48-year old former army officer,... Read more |
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Wael Khalil Egypt's IMF-Backed Revolution? No Thanks Year after year, the IMF praised Mubarak's 'progress'. Signing up to its $3bn loan now hardly seems a break with the past Read more |
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Larry Goldsmith Bradley Manning: Rich Man's War, Poor (Gay) Man's Fight A poor, young gay man from the rural South joins the U.S. Army under pressure from his father, and because it's the only way left to pay for a college education. He is sent to Iraq, where he is... Read more |
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Tina Gerhardt German Utilities Push Back on Merkel’s Plan to Phase Out Nukes Berlin, Germany — German Chancellor Angela Merkel signed off today on a bill phasing out all nuclear energy in Germany by the end of 2022, underscoring the economic and environmental benefits of... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Dependence Day Another July 4th is coming soon, and we'll sing with pride about living in the land of the free and the home of the brave. But freedom and bravery are ambiguous words. Our freedom to maintain an... Read more |
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Peter Van Buren Occupying Iraq, State Department-Style: A Frat House With Guns in Baghdad Way out on the edge of Forward Operating Base Hammer , where I lived for much of my year in Iraq as a Provincial Reconstruction Team leader for the U.S. Department of State, there were several small... Read more |
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Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers History Is Knocking: Stop the Machine! Create a New World! There comes a time when efforts to avoid the truth begin to fail, when one can no longer go about daily life and pretend that all is okay. If you are like most of us, you are experiencing this. There... Read more |
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Ken Cook Best Friends Forever? Produce Growers and Pesticide Makers Deepen Their Bond In nearly two decades of research and advocacy on pesticides and human health, Environmental Working Group has never before seen the produce industry take a high-profile role in debates over... Read more |
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Linda McQuaig Canada Mines African Discontent While Canadians may think of ourselves as best known for owning the Olympic podium, among Africans we may actually be better known — and not particularly liked — for owning their natural resources... Read more |
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Michael Smallberg The SEC's Revolving Door The agency is too cozy with the financial industry it oversees. Read more |