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All Views Articles for 2011-12-12

Monday, December 12, 2011
	Rich Bindell Are Privatized Water Utilities in Cahoots With Shale Gas Companies? On one hand, we have shale gas companies who have been rushing into various regions of the country to extract gas using a dangerous extraction process that involves toxic chemicals potentially... Read more
	Robert Naiman On Complaints over Iran Nuclear Weapon Claims, WaPo Ombud Rules for the Plaintiffs Has your hometown newspaper drunk the Kool-Aid on claims that "the debate is over," and everyone now knows that Iran is pursuing the acquisition of a nuclear weapon? Help is on the way. On Sunday,... Read more
	Ruth Rosen Occupy: You Can’t Evict an Idea As snowstorms and freezing rain announce the arrival of winter, it’s hard to remember that the Occupy Wall Street movement emerged just a few months ago, in September. Enraged by the government... Read more
	Dean Baker A Tale of Two Deficit Charts Not long after I first came to Washington 20 years ago I was at a conference dealing with Social Security privatization. One of the panelists used a number for the administrative costs of private... Read more
	Laura Flanders What a Difference an Occupation Makes It was never a genuine question. Money media prattled on about Occupy Wall Street’s supposedly ineffable demands the same way they batted aside the end capitalism signs to wonder what the Seattle... Read more
	Sam Pizzigati Presenting America’s Ten Greediest of 2011 One puts on football pageants. Another makes mega millions on a virtual farm. They all remind us how much needs to change, economically and politically, in 2012 and beyond. Read more
	Ira Chernus Gingrich on Palestine: Small Truths In A Big Lie If Newt had really said what the headlines claimed: “Gingrich Calls Palestinians an ‘Invented’ People,” I would have shrugged and said, So what? Americans are an invented people too. So are British,... Read more
	Jim Goodman Occupy the Food System The world can feed itself, without corporate America's science-experiment crops and expensive chemicals. Read more
	Tom Engelhardt The 1% Election: How to Turn Election Year Into Election Life Their Bread, Our Circus Read more