All Views Articles for 2012-10-11
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Michael Pollan Why California’s Proposition 37 Should Matter to Anyone Who Cares About Food On November 6, Vote for the Dinner Party Read more |
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Matthew Rothschild Romney in Denial about Lethal Lack of Health Insurance Mitt Romney doesn’t understand how deadly our current health insurance system is. “We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance,” Romney said in... Read more |
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Stephen Zunes The Ongoing Attack on Democracy in the Maldives A political struggle now under way on a tiny island nation in the Indian Ocean has huge implications for the global struggle for democracy and human rights. Western powers which profess to support... Read more |
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Alice Ross Imran Khan’s March Brings Global Attention to CIA Drone Strikes US peace activists joined politicians, lawyers and the world’s press on Sunday as they attempted to march into Pakistan’s tribal region in protest at the CIA’s drone campaign. Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald US Supreme Court Finalizes Gift of Immunity to the Telecom Giants Yet again, the Congress, courts, executive branch and the establishment media work together to protect the nation's most powerful actors Read more |
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Michelle Chen On Both Sides of the Border, Teachers Fight Corporatization Last month, the success of the Chicago teachers’ strike forced the mainstream media to present a rare picture of public school teachers : as organized, defiant and victorious. But prior to the... Read more |
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Peter Van Buren Don’t Ask and Don’t Tell: Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions You Won't Hear Debated We had a debate club back in high school. Two teams would meet in the auditorium, and Mr. Garrity would tell us the topic, something 1970s-ish like “Resolved: Women Should Get Equal Pay for Equal... Read more |
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Desmond Tutu, Ela Bhatt Today, A Promise to Girls Today is our human family's first-ever International Day of the Girl. Read more |
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John Nichols Debate Question for Paul Ryan: Which of Mitt's Many Sides Are You On? The inconvenient truth about this year’s Republican ticket is that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan disagree. A lot. Read more |
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Robert Reich Memo to Joe, Re: Debate with Rightwing Zealot TO: VPOTUS FROM: Robert Reich RE: Debate Beware: Paul Ryan will appear affable. He’s less polished and aggressive than Romney, even soft-spoken. And he acts as if he’s saying reasonable things. Read more |
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Amy Goodman Workers Fight for Justice, From Wal-Mart to Chipotle The great recession of 2008, this global economic meltdown, has wiped out the life savings of so many people and created a looming threat of chronic unemployment for millions. Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Empire and Its Consequences Ever notice the way certain basic human values quietly transform into their opposite on their way to becoming national policy? Read more |