All Views Articles for 2012-03-13
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Giving Dennis Kucinich His Due A certain kind of politician is becoming a dwindling breed. I’m not thinking of the over-praised and frequently eulogized centrist, the kind who spends a career watering things down and gets lionized... Read more |
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Mark Naison The War on Teachers: Why Is the Public Watching It Happen? All over the nation, teachers are under attack. Politicians of both parties, in every state, have blamed teachers and their unions for the nation’s low standing on international tests and our nation’... Read more |
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Jeremy Scahill Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The two discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the battle against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the end of... Read more |
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Mareike Britten Message to World Leaders: Fukushima is a Reminder; End the Threat of Nuclear Power More than 50 organisations and individuals from around the world have joined forces with Greenpeace and called for investments in safe, renewable energy in order to end the threat of nuclear power. Read more |
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Harriet Barlow Why I Call Myself a Commoner Each day I walk out of my Minneapolis house into an atmosphere protected from pollution by the Clean Air Act. As I step onto a sidewalk that was built with tax dollars for everyone, my spirits are... Read more |
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Naomi Starkman New Report: Nitrate Contamination Threatens California’s Drinking Water Today, the Food & Environment Reporting Network–the first and only independent, non-profit, non-partisan news organization that produces investigative reporting on food, agriculture, and... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Inside the Mind of a Conservative. Got a Minute? Unfortunately, a little well-placed progressive sarcasm can't compete with the ongoing 40-year right-wing campaign to capture the sympathies of an impressionable public. It's a remarkable... Read more |
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Jesse Hagopian 'Occupy Education' Debates the Gates Foundation (and Wins) “Gates Foundation you will fail / Education is not for sale!” Read more |
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Richard Schiffman Republicans Fight Obama's Planned Nuclear Cuts “Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon,” read the headline. This front page banner in the satirical weekly, The Onion may not have gotten the number exactly right. Read more |
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Michael T. Klare A Tough-Oil World: Why High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay Twenty-First Century Oil Will Break the Bank -- and the Planet Read more |
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Jake Olzen 'Chicago Spring' Declares G8 Move a Victory Taking nearly everyone by surprise, the White House announced last Monday that the world’s economic leaders with the G8 would not be enjoying the sights and sounds of a democratic #ChicagoSpring . Read more |
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Eugene Robinson End the Afghan Mission Now It was clear before Sunday’s horrific massacre of civilians that it’s past time for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan to end. Now the only question should be how quickly we can get our troops onto... Read more |
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Robert Reich The Widening Wealth Divide, and Why We Need a Surtax on the Super Wealthy Let Santorum and Romney duke it out for who will cut taxes on the wealthy the most and shred the public services everyone else depends on. The rest of us ought to be having a serious discussion about... Read more |