All Views Articles for 2013-01-03
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Marcy Wheeler Why Not Have a Hearing on Civilian Drone Casualties? Yesterday, I suggested that Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger’s certainty that public accounts of drone casualties are overstated may say more about our failed intelligence oversight than it does... Read more |
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Peter Hart Some Cluster Bombs More Newsworthy Than Others Most people would probably agree that cluster bombs are hideous weapons–deadly, indiscriminate, and likely to kill or injure civilians. Read more |
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Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger 'Fix the Debt' Readies Its Trojan Horse for Next Budget Fight The corporate-driven campaign didn't get everything it wanted with the fiscal deal, but it's likely to continue to be a major force as budget talks continue Read more |
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Jacob Devaney Idle No More: Hints of a Global Super-Movement What started as a murmur in early October from First Nations People in Canada in response to Bill C45 has become a movement that echoes the sentiments of people all over the world, a battle cry of... Read more |
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Gwynne Dyer Natural Gas Fables and Energy Independence Myths Which of the following statements is true? The United States now has a 100-year supply of natural gas, thanks to the miracle of shale gas. By 2017 it will once again be the world’s biggest oil... Read more |
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Ronnie Cummins In 2013, Our Fight Against GMO Food Continues On November 6, in the wake of one of the most expensive and scurrilous smear campaigns in history, six million voters scared the hell out of Monsanto and Big Food Inc. by coming within a razor’s edge... Read more |
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Robert Borosage 'Shared Sacrifice' Is for Suckers: 7 Common Sense Thoughts on Washington's Budget Bedlam The richest 1% have waged war against the rest of us; Now is time to fight back and fight back hard Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt 2013 and Beyond: Fracking, Drone Wars, and an Apocalypse Foretold The US intelligence community’s New Year’s wishes Read more |
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Michael Moore I Do Not Support the Troops Why those who say "I Support the Troops" really don't Read more |
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César Chelala Israeli Soldiers' Suicides: The Untold Story Statistics released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) show that in the last 10 years, 237 soldiers killed themselves. That number represents an average of 24 soldiers taking their own lives every... Read more |
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David Suzuki It’s Time to Stop Spinning Our Wheels on Climate Change In 1988, hundreds of scientists and policy-makers met in Toronto for a major international conference on climate change. Read more |
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Thom Hartmann Django Unchained: Tarantino Tells the South to Go Fuck Itself I knew there was more to it than just being a movie when, for several days between Christmas and New Years, I watched Drudge implicitly trashing “Django Unchained” on his hard-right website. Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder 9 Stories That Will Change Your World in 2013 2012 was a year of superstorms, mass shootings, debt strikes, and the most spendy election ever. Here’s how last year’s most important stories will shape 2013. Read more |
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Amy Goodman Obama’s New Year’s Resolution: Protect the Status Quo Amidst the White House and congressional theatrics surrounding the so-called fiscal-cliff negotiations, a number of bills were signed into law by President Barack Obama that renew some of the worst... Read more |
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Philip Weiss Endless ‘Debate over Two-State Solution’ Is Cover for the Real Story, Annexation of West Bank One of the wiser political observations I've read lately was from Joseph Dana in the National : "the debate about the two-state solution has become an important diversion from discussing the true... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald France's Censorship Demands to Twitter Are More Dangerous Than 'Hate Speech' Few ideas have done as much damage throughout history as empowering the government to criminalize opinions it dislikes Read more |