All Views Articles for 2013-03-01
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Susan Casey-Lefkowitz Reviewing the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: The More We Learn, the Worse It Looks The State Department just released its draft environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would take tar sands from Canada to the US Gulf Coast for export. Read more |
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James Fallows War Hawks Were Wrong, Wrong, Wrong about Iraq As we near the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, we all need to account for our positions in 2003 Read more |
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Chelsea Manning My Goal? To "Share with World... True Cost of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan" In full statement, whistleblower says most alarming was the "delightful bloodlust" of US soldiers in Collateral Murder video Read more |
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Andrew Simms Apocalypse? No. But Unless We Change Tack, Earth is Running Out of Time How we can face the challenge of saving the environment without slipping into denial, despair or cynical profiteering? Read more |
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Owen Jones History Will Damn the Persecutors of Bradley Manning Sacrifice of US soldier's liberty will not have been made in vain Read more |
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Gar Alperovitz, David Zuckerman Going Outside the Hospital Walls to Improve Community Health Obamacare provision requires nonprofit hospitals reach out to the community, emphasizing link between poverty and poor health Read more |
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Lisa Graves Conversation with "Fix the Debt," Help Count the Pinocchios Last week, the Center for Media and Democracy and The Nation magazine worked together to publish a package in the Nation and a new online wiki resource on Pete Peterson and the Campaign to Fix the... Read more |
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Laura Musikanski, John de Graaf The Happiness Initiative: The Serious Business of Well-Being Happiness: is it just a fad of the day or the wave of the future? On July 19th, 2011, the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution urging governments across the globe to start measuring happiness and... Read more |
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Atlee McFellin The Ascendant and Necessary Transition to a New Economy Even Forbes is jumping on the bandwagon of the “sharing economy” with a recent article on AirBnB. This closely follows Van Jones’s CNN article about the “sharing economy,” but the push to transform... Read more |
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Robert Reich The Sequester and the Tea Party Plot Imagine a plot to undermine the government of the United States, to destroy much of its capacity to do the public’s business, and to sow distrust among the population. Imagine further that the... Read more |
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Robert Borosage Washington's Sequester: Into the Vast Inane Someone asked the Master about the principles of … traveling into the vast inane. – From the Bao Pu Zi, AD 320, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China Read more |
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Michael Grunwald I’m with the Tree Huggers (Member of "Respectable Center" Comes Clean on Keystone XL) The activists fighting the Keystone XL pipeline are radical-and right Read more |
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Fran Quigley Free Michael Posner: The US Holds the Key to Duvalier Prosecution PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – I am in the courtroom for a hearing on the cases charging that Jean-Claude Duvalier committed massive human rights violations during his tenure as Haiti’s president from 1971... Read more |
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Richard Schiffman Meditation Makes You More Liberal, Study Says There have been some fascinating studies about the effects of meditation in recent years. Buddhist monks and Trappist friars have been hooked up to EEG machines to record subtle changes in their... Read more |
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Kumi Naidoo Shell's Arctic Failure Is Obama's Chance to Act An unexpected thing happened Wednesday: One of the biggest oil companies in the world -- Shell -- made a big decision acknowledging that the oil industry cannot operate safely in the Arctic. A... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Bradley Manning: The Face of Heroism Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn The Uncommon Courage of Bradley Manning Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to 10 charges including possessing and willfully communicating to an unauthorized person all the main elements of the WikiLeaks disclosure. The charges carry a... Read more |