All Views Articles for 2013-02-01
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Robin Marty All In: North Dakota Anti-Choicers Seek Heartbeat Bans, Human Life Amendments, TRAP Laws, and More The North Dakota legislature only meets every other year, so in its "on" year it has a lot of business to accomplish. Sadly, it looks like the major focus this year will be banning abortion any way... Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Disaster Capitalism in the Maghreb: War, Refugees and Profit in West Africa The British security firm G4S is set to rake in massive profits thanks to crises in Mali, Libya and Algeria. Recognized as the world’s biggest security firm, the group’s brand plummeted during the... Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Media Hate Fest for Venezuela Keeps on Keepin’ On Last week there was a real media hate-fest for Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, with some of the more influential publications on both sides of the Atlantic really hating on the guy. Read more |
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Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb Five Possibilities for the Next Great Progressive Push Obama’s second inaugural address opened some hope of a brighter progressive future, yet virtually all the critical economic and distributional issues were off the table—and the pain is likely to... Read more |
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Timothy Karr A Call to Action for Our Internet The Internet is no longer a child. It was conceived by the defense department in the 1960s, nurtured by academics and engineers in the 1970s and adopted by billions of people in the years since... Read more |
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Frances Fox Piven Movements Making Noise American political history is usually told as the story of what political elites say and do. The twists and turns, advances and setbacks, wars, disasters and recoveries, are said to be the work of... Read more |
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Paul Krugman Looking for Mister Goodpain: The Hopeless Search for an Austerity Success Story Three years ago, a terrible thing happened to economic policy, both here and in Europe. Although the worst of the financial crisis was over, economies on both sides of the Atlantic remained deeply... Read more |
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Immanuel Wallerstein The Very Risky Bet of Hollande in Mali: The Probable Long-Term Disaster On January 11, France's President François Hollande sent in troops to Mali, a few immediately but then 3500, a sizeable number. The stated objective was to fight against the various Islamic... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Hagel-ography and the Tired, Destructive Thinking of Washington, DC Think of it as the Great Obama Shuffle. When U.N. Read more |
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Thomas Hedges An Economic Alternative to Exploitative Free Market Capitalism In 1649, a group of English communists started fighting the notion of private property in what became known as the commons movement. They were using the unstable period in England’s history to... Read more |
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Michelle Chen Cambodian Workers Wait for Wages in the Street, Shaming H&M and Wal-Mart The women of the Kingsland clothing factory in Phnom Penh have been losing sleep over their jobs. It’s not the grueling hours and poverty wages that keep them awake, nor the threat of violent... Read more |
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Jim Harkness The End of the Farm Bill? And the Beginning of Better Food System We must build a new policy framework for a fair, sustainable, and healthy food system. Read more |
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Sadhbh Walshe Field Work's Dirty Decret: Agribusiness Exploitation of Undocumented Labor Agriculture has long been US industry's most profitable sector – at the expense of a virtually indentured immigrant workforce Read more |
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Robert Scheer It’s Good to Be a Goldman Shame on you, Goldman Sachs. Now here's your bonus Read more |