All Views Articles for 2013-02-25
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Haifa Zangana For Iraqi Women, America's Promise of Democracy is Anything But Liberation Iraq's jailers learned their abuses from the allied occupiers. And under today's sectarian regime, women are under assault Read more |
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Robert Kuttner Would the GOP Deliberately Crash the Economy for Long-Term Political Gain? Hint: Yes. And Obama and the Democrats are playing right into their hands Read more |
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Charlotte Silver How Israel Legitimizes Torturing Palestinians to Death Six days after Arafat Jaradat was arrested by the Israeli army and the Shin Bet, he was dead. Between the date of his arrest - February 18 - and the day of his death - February 23 - his lawyer Kamil... Read more |
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Deborah Burger Nurses Oppose the KXL Pipeline – and All of Labor Should Too Noticeably absent from President Obama’s “fix-it-first” program for rebuilding America’s crumbling infrastructure, highlighted in his State of the Union speech, is, so far, the controversial Keystone... Read more |
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Ray McGovern Tens Years Later, Eyes Still Wide Shut on the Iraq War Ten years ago, as President George W. Bush and his administration were putting the finishing touches on their unprovoked invasion of Iraq, the mainstream U.S. Read more |
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Brian Sonenstein It’s Time for MoveOn to Move and Stop Blocking Change New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) task force received ample attention from news and activist organizations alike following its dramatic... Read more |
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Jonathan Cook Obama’s Israel Trip: Ignore the Hype, It’s Four More Years of Settlement Growth Israeli and Palestinian officials have been in Washington laying the ground for President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel and the West Bank, scheduled for next month and the first since he took office... Read more |
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Peter Van Buren We are All Bradley Manning: 1000 Days in Jail without a Conviction Bradley Manning, the young army private who allegedly disclosed the Wikileaks files, must be given a fair, open and speedy trial. He has been held over three years, often in solitary and inhumane... Read more |
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Amy Schaffer In Nebraska, I Stand with the Many Who Stand Against Keystone XL Besides the uncontrollable urge and feelings that consume me to fight KXL, to defend our land and water, to stand up for what is right and good, to preserve what has been handed to me through the... Read more |
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Dean Baker Fix the Economy, Not the Deficit As the sequester looms, what's most clear is that both parties have given in to the idea that our chief problem is deficits. Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Zero Dark Thirty, the CIA and Film Critics Have a Very Bad Evening Just a few months ago, the consensus of the establishment press and the nation's (shockingly large) community of film critics was that Zero Dark Thirty was the best film of the year and the clear (... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit The 2013 Hypocrisy Oscars The best actors in America are the business and government leaders who impersonate job creators and makers of prosperity. For their stellar performances over the past year, they deserve to be... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Sequestration: Washington’s Stupid, Destructive Game It’s Monday morning in America. That means we’re about to endure another week of pointless debate over the precise methods by which our federal government will impose more needless misery on the... Read more |
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Ellen Brown How the Fed Could Fix the Economy—and Why It Hasn’t Quantitative easing (QE) is supposed to stimulate the economy by adding money to the money supply, increasing demand. But so far, it hasn’t been working. Why not? Because as practiced for the last... Read more |
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Rob Dietz, Dan O'Neill A Better Plan Than 'Endless Growth': Enough Is Enough The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland last month. The official theme was "Resilient Dynamism," a catchphrase that makes about as much sense as the futureless economic... Read more |
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Chris Hedges Rebels Stand Alone I was in the Swiss village of Begnins outside Geneva shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt What If the Iranians Waterboarded an American? Sometimes, the world can be such a simple, black-and-white sort of place. Let me give you an example. Imagine for a moment that the Iranians kidnap an American citizen from a third country . (If you... Read more |