All Views Articles for 2012-07-24
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John Nichols Bernie Sanders Versus the Billionaires If two dozen billionaire families were combining their wealth to effectively buy the 2012 election, it would be time for patriots to mount a bold response on behalf of democracy itself. Well, that... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Where is Obama’s Promised Minimum-Wage Hike? During the 2008 campaign, presidential candidate Barack Obama made a pledge to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 per hour by 2011. Promises like this one inspired a generation of young voters, excited... Read more |
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Wren Awry Mountain Mobilization Kicks Off 'Summer of Solidarity' with Strip-Mining Challenge Listening to the talk in Washington is depressing these days for those concerned about the future of our planet. Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Women for Paid Sick Days Some policy questions are difficult. Here are a few easy ones: Should people who handle food for a living have to work while contagious? Should sick kids be stuck at school because their parents are... Read more |
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Eugene Robinson A Tragedy We Will Not Try to Avert Will we even pretend to do anything to prevent the next mass shooting by a crazed loner? I doubt it. We’ll just add Aurora to the growing list — Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson — and wait for the... Read more |
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Gareth Porter Israel Pins Bombing on Hezbollah to Get EU Terror Ruling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim Sunday of absolutely reliable intelligence linking Hezbollah to the bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria last week was apparently aimed at supporting his... Read more |
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William deBuys The West in Flames: The Oxygen Planet Struts Its Stuff Not a “Perfect Storm” But the New Norm in the American West Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Dianne Feinstein’s “Espionage” The California Democrat is both the prime enemy of leaks and "one of the biggest leakers in Congress" Read more |
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Bill McKibben Global Warming's Terrifying New Math Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is Read more |
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Holly Sklar Raise Minimum Wage to Raise America Time flies when you're moving backward. With the federal minimum wage stuck at $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009, workers now have less buying power than they did in 1997 at the start of the longest... Read more |
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John Perkins Occupy the Dam: Brazil's Indigenous Uprising In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world's third-largest dam—by dismantling it. Here's what they can teach us about standing up to power. Read more |
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Thomas S. Harrington Aggressive Cluelessness: Then and Now At the middle of the 16th century, Spain was the unquestioned superpower of the world, presiding over an empire more geographically expansive (comprised of the Philippines, much of today’s Latin... Read more |