All Views Articles for 2013-01-15
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Linda McQuaig Canada’s Energy Juggernaut Hits a Native Roadblock Those who believe we can freely trash the environment in our quest to make ourselves richer suffer from a serious delusion — a delusion that doesn’t appear to afflict aboriginal people. Read more |
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Charlotte Silver Monsanto vs. The People Last week Monsanto announced staggering profits from 2012 to celebratory shareholders while American farmers filed into Washington, DC to challenge the Biotech giant’s right to sue farmers whose... Read more |
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Robert Parry America’s War for Reality The real struggle confronting the United States is not between the Right and the Left in any traditional sense, but between those who believe in reality and those who are entranced by unreality. It... Read more |
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Adam Horowitz Hagel Prostrates Himself Before the Lobby, Gets Votes The drama around Chuck Hagel's nomination for Secretary of Defense seems to be heading into its predictable third act. Read more |
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Yves Smith Surprise! When Banks Oversee Their Own Review 'No Harm Found' More whistleblower leaks on Foreclosure Settlement show both suppression of evidence and gross incompetence Read more |
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Jon Wiener Ike's Dream, Obama's Reality: 8 Things I Miss About the Cold War Fifty Years Ago, College Was Cheap, Unions Were Strong, and There Was No Terrorism-Industrial Complex Read more |
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Graham Nash Punishment Before Trial: More Than 1,000 Days and Counting for Bradley Manning I read the news about Colonel Denise Lind's ruling in the case against Bradley Manning with great interest. She ruled that Manning, the U.S. Read more |
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Deepa Kumar Beyond Torture: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and the Promotion of Extrajudicial Killing Rebranding the War on Terror for the age of Obama Read more |
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Kate Sheppard The Heat is on as the NYT Closes Its Environment Desk The paper risks much by folding its environment desk – just at the moment when climate change has never been more pressing Read more |
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Owen Jones War in Libya Was Called "Success," But Now Here We Are Engaging with the Blowback in Mali No scrutiny, no build-up, no parliamentary vote, not even a softening-up exercise. Britain is now involved in yet another military conflict in a Muslim land , or so we have been informed. Read more |
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Zaid Hydari Afghanistan's Forgotten Refugees In 2008, Seyed Hasan, a father of 6, fled his home in the Wardak province of eastern Afghanistan. Hasan and his family were targeted by the Taliban for resisting their demands. It had been seven... Read more |
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John Atcheson Pain in Spain: Austerity Falls Mostly on the Middle Class, And Yet… Scratch the surface of any austerity policy, and chances are you’ll see a bank protection program masquerading as good economic policy. Read more |