All Views Articles for 2011-11-07
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Desmond Tutu, Jody Williams The Devil in the Tar Sands CAPE TOWN – On Sunday, November 6, thousands of people encircled the White House as part of the ongoing effort to press US President Barack Obama to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. If the nearly 1,700... Read more |
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Joseph Stiglitz The Globalization of Protest NEW YORK – The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become global, with the protests engulfing Wall Street and cities across... Read more |
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Russ Baker Corporate Media Stumped on How to Cover the Occupy Movement Conventional journalism is increasingly irrelevant in a time of crisis. We find abundant proof in a recent column from the New York Times’ so-called “Public Editor,” who is supposed to somehow... Read more |
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Pratap Chatterjee The CIA's Unaccountable Drone War Claims Another Casualty If Tariq Aziz, the 16-year-old soccer fan I met last week in Pakistan, was a dangerous Taliban terrorist, let the CIA prove it. Read more |
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Kamran Mofid, Jamshid Damooei The World Is Revolting Against the US Economic and Business Model: A Call to Action The current economic system has created a massive and widening gap between a wealthy minority and the many people living in abject poverty Read more |
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John Nichols Block the Vote: Ohio GOP Bars Early Voting to Suppress Pro-Labor Turnout TOLEDO — When Mitt Romney’s dad was a candidate for president back in the 1960s, Republicans competed on the strength of their personalities and ideas. It was the same when Newt Gingrich was an up-... Read more |
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Richard Javad Heydarian Iran Plot: A Pretext for War For many Iran observers, Washington’s latest accusations against Iran — implicating members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States... Read more |
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Gary Younge Who Knows Where the Occupations Are Going – It's Just Great to Be Moving As Wall Street wormed its way into everyone's life, so Occupy protests grow everywhere: symbolic for now, but changing debate Read more |
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Paul Krugman Here Comes the Sun For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it. Moore’s Law — in which the price of... Read more |
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Jim Horn New Charter School Study More Bad News for Corporate Ed Reform The first national charter school study was conducted in 2009 by CREDO at Stanford , and the co-funders of the study (the Walton Foundation and Pearson) were not enamored by the results. Read more |
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Bryan Farrell Entirely Surrounded: Protesters Encircle White House, Close in on Tar Sands Industry “We don’t know how many people it takes to encircle the White House, but we’re about to find out,” Bill McKibben told a crowd of over 12,000 gathered in Lafayette Square on Sunday afternoon. Read more |
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Danny Schechter Occupy Cross-Roads: What Will Happen If OWS Loses Its Park? Mic Check: You Say You Want a Revolution?... Read more |
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Chris Hedges Finding Freedom in Handcuffs Editor’s note: Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, an activist, an author and a member of a reporting team that won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize, wrote this article after he was released from custody following... Read more |
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Frances Fox Piven The War Against the Poor and Occupy Wall Street The Politics of Financial Morality Read more |