All Views Articles for 2012-03-07
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Aquene Freechild A Super Tuesday as Vermont Pushed to Overturn Citizens United The people have spoken, loud and clear. Super Tuesday showed us that momentum is growing rapidly for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v... Read more |
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Mike Elk Worker ‘Occupations’ in 3 States Yield Successes, but Counterattack Begins In the last few months, workers in three different states—at the Serious Materials factory in Chicago, at a Century Aluminum factory in Ravenswood, West Va., and at AT&T’s regional headquarters... Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis Obama Goes to AIPAC: A Scorecard President Obama held his ground on Iran during the last several days of dueling I-love-Israel speeches, making clear that the U.S. position did not match the Israeli demand for an immediate military... Read more |
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Frances Beinecke Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Won't Ease Gas Prices; Senate Must Reject It This week the Senate is likely to vote on an amendment that would force approval for the Keystone XL pipeline . Read more |
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Brendan Fischer WI Judge Halts 'Extremely Broad and Largely Needless' Voter ID Law A Wisconsin judge has issued a temporary injunction against Wisconsin’s new voter ID law, calling it "the single most restrictive voter eligibility law in the United States.” Wisconsin’s voter ID law... Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Controversy Rages Over Arrests of Virginia Reproductive Rights Protesters The ACLU is accusing police of overreacting in their arrests of 31 people at the Virginia Capitol on Saturday during a peaceful protest over passage of a controversial bill requiring pregnant women... Read more |
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Glen Ford New Data Show Black Students Have Been New Jim Crowed Newly-released data on the nation’s public schools document what every Black school kid already knows: African American students are far more likely to be suspended or expelled than whites. Most... Read more |
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Jamilah King Activists Worry That Mobile Phones Could Do More Harm Than Good Nearly three years before thousands of Egyptian activists took to the streets to boot former president Hosni Mubarak from office, there was a much more quiet fight over bread and cell phones. On... Read more |
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Gary Younge Mitt Romney Still Can't Seal the Deal on Super Tuesday The idea of the GOP primary season is to produce not just a nominee but a candidate who unites the party. That's not Mitt Read more |
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Dave Zweifel Tea Party Paranoia Shouldn’t Be Ignored People regularly send emails and letters telling me that I don’t understand the folks who call themselves members of some or another affiliate of the so-called tea party. Read more |
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Heather Mallick We Need a Women's Rights Reawakening Thursday is International Women’s Day. Women in Canada and the U.S. have not been in this much danger for a generation. Read more |
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Jim Hightower Woody Guthrie at 100 Where's Woody when we need him? In these times of tinkle-down economics — with the money powers thinking that they're the top dogs and that the rest of us are just a bunch of fire hydrants — we need... Read more |
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Peter Van Buren The Day 'Due Process' Died: Obama, Holder and the End of Rights Historians of the future, if they are not imprisoned for saying so, will trace the end of America's democratic experiment to the fearful days immediately after 9/11, what Bruce Springsteen called the... Read more |
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John Nichols What America Lost When Dennis Kucinich Lost Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich , a two-time presidential candidate who for the past decade has been the most consistent critic of war and militarism in the U.S. Read more |