All Views Articles for 2012-07-23
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Ladd Everitt The NRA's War at Home When 24-year-old James Holmes walked into the Century Aurora 16 movie theater last week, he was prepared for war. For starters, he was armored. He wore a ballistic helmet, a gas mask, body armor,... Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Turning Towards Nonviolence and Away from 'Dark Knights' As we grieve for the dead and injured in last week’s movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, and join with others to demand handgun reform, we are reminded once again of a greater, more... Read more |
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Gar Alperovitz Don't Regulate the Banks, Nationalize Them Wall Street is too big to regulate and breaking them up -- if political will existed to accomplish such a thing -- wouldn't last for long Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Obama Gitmo Myth New vindictive restrictions on detainees highlights the falsity of Obama defenders regarding closing the camp Read more |
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Ray McGovern, Annie Machon 'Downing Street Memo' Redux: Is the Intelligence Fix on Iran Already Underway? Recent remarks by Sir John Sawers, who heads Britain’s MI6 (the Secret Intelligence Service that is Britain’s CIA counterpart), leave us wondering if Sawers is preparing to “fix” intelligence on Iran... Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder Climate Emergency Action Plan We can still avoid a devastating climate crisis. But we’ll need a World War II-level mobilization. And we’ll need to stand up to Dirty Energy. Read more |
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Fran Quigley, Meena Jagannath Echoes of Duvalier in Martelly's Haiti Critics of new president imprisoned as Haiti's poor speak out against government Read more |
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Kathy Kelly A Simple Desire from Afghanistan: 'We Want Lives without War' KABUL -- For the Afghan Peace Volunteers, living in a working class area of Kabul’s “Karte Seh” district, daily problem-solving requires a triage process. Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Three Big Lies Perpetuated by the Rich When it comes to the economy, too many Americans continue to be numbed by the soothing sounds of conservative spin in the media. Here are three of their more inventive claims: 1. Higher taxes on the... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Careerists The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics. They do the little chores that make vast, complicated... Read more |
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Noam Chomsky Destroying the Commons: On Shredding the Magna Carta Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated, mourned, or... Read more |