All Views Articles for 2013-02-18
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Tory Field, Beverly Bell Food Sovereignty: Think Globally, Eat Locally The first group of protestors at Occupy Wall Street publically delivered 23 complaints, outlining the ways in which corporations control our daily lives. Number four asserted, “They have poisoned the... Read more |
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Steven Staples Why the Canadian Right's 'Defense Lobby' Wants Another War The generals have a big problem. The fighting in Afghanistan is over for Canada, and the thousands of recruits they armed, and the fleets of planes, helicopters and tanks they bought, have nowhere to... Read more |
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Josh Levy Meet the New CISPA. Same as the Old CISPA. Last year, thanks to a public outcry, the effort to pass overreaching cybersecurity legislation stalled in the Senate. Now supporters have reintroduced the House version of that legislation — the... Read more |
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Greg Grandin How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth The Latin American Exception Read more |
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Paul Watson Sea Shepherd: Defending the Integrity of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary Our Antarctic campaign has become stronger and more efficient – but the Japanese whalers are getting recklessly aggressive Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The Lamest Excuses Money Can Buy As we try to grasp the reasoning behind cuts to life-saving programs while billion-dollar incomes and trillion-dollar profits are being made, we must understand that extreme wealth deadens parts of... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Premises and Purposes of American Exceptionalism That the US is objectively "the greatest country ever to exist" is as irrational as it is destructive, yet it maintains the status of orthodoxy Read more |
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Jill Richardson Another Side of the Immigration Debate: Harvesting NAFTA's Crops We reap the benefits of cheap farm and meatpacking labor in the form of low-priced food, thanks to the contributions of millions of undocumented workers. Read more |
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Chris Hedges Profiting From Human Misery Marela, an undocumented immigrant in her 40s, stood outside the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, N.J., on a chilly afternoon last week. She was there with a group of protesters who appear at... Read more |
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Bill McKibben A Great Day for the Climate Movement Today was the day. Finally, powerfully, decisively -- the movement to stop climate change has come together. This was the biggest climate change rally in US history. By our count, 50,000 people... Read more |
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George Zornick 'Forward on Climate' Rally Sends a Message to Obama: No Keystone Over 35,000 people descended on the National Mall in Washington on Sunday, huddled together against a stinging cold wind to deliver a message of opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. Their audience... Read more |