All Views Articles for 2013-03-08
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Bianca Jagger Women: The Unsung Heroes of the Environment Yesterday I delivered the keynote speech at the exhibition, "Women Pioneers for the Environment and Nature Conservation - 1899 to the Present" in Berlin, Germany, organised by the German Federal... Read more |
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Glen Ford The Sequestration Tango: Obama and GOP Dance Through the Graveyard of the New Deal The Obama regime has been remarkably successful – in pushing forward a Republican agenda. Obama, especially, has “moved with such elegance and poise, his fans forgot that he was dancing with a... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Why Are Democrats So Defeatist? The Republicans are openly introspective about why they failed to regain the presidency and the Senate. It is time for the same kind of rigorous self-analysis by the Democrats, who floated through... Read more |
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Ann Jones Afghan Women Face the Future This is a personal story, and it’s hard to tell because nobody knows how it will end. I first went to Afghanistan in 2002, where I volunteered with two small nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)... Read more |
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Kade Crockford Obama Must Reveal Legal Memos on His Administration's Drone Killing Program Brennan's confirmation hearing as CIA director was a crucial test of the Senate's exercise of oversight. It failed; now it's up to us Read more |
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Danielle Nierenberg Honoring Women of the Food Movement on Int’l Women’s Day Today is International Women’s Day – a day to recognize the steps that have been taken to improve gender equality and to acknowledge that much more needs to be done to level the playing field for... Read more |
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Michael Winship Jack Lew, Citigroup and the Ugland Truth Along with its sandy beaches and quality snorkeling, the Cayman Islands’ reputation as an offshore tax haven for corporations, banks and hedge funds has become so well-known its financial... Read more |
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Jodi Jacobson The 18 For-Profit Companies Fighting to Eliminate the Birth Control Benefit Eighteen for-profit companies have filed lawsuits to avoid complying with the the birth control benefit in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , which requires that all insurance policies cover birth... Read more |
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Guy Edwards, Susanna Mage Death of Hugo Chávez Gives Venezuela a Choice on Climate Change Will the oil-rich country become a key engineer in a new global climate deal, or will it sabotage progress? Read more |
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Robert Borosage It's Official: Too Big to Fail Banks Are Too Big to Jail For years, the Obama administration has been pummeled for failing to bring criminal charges against a single major Wall Street bank or a single leading Wall Street banker for what the FBI termed an "... Read more |
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Richard Eskow A President Who’ll Cut Social Security – And Liberals Who Love Him Too Much The spectacle of a supposedly liberal President repeatedly and needlessly trying to cut Social Security is enough to bring a reasonable, economically literate person to the point of existential... Read more |
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Sadhbh Walshe How Long Will Voters Let Republicans Put the Rich Before Everyone Else? Wall Street may be having a banner week, but the poor, thanks to the GOP, are not Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Consulting the Zombies: Why We Invariably Turn to the “Experts” Who Were Never Right When It Comes to Iraq We don’t get it. We really don’t. We may not, in military terms, know how to win any more, but as a soc Read more |
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Cenk Uygur The 3 Real Problems With Drone Strikes It's frustrating to see how muddled the debate over drones has become. Some people are wondering why we're all so concerned over a new vehicle that delivers bombs, as opposed to planes. No, no, that'... Read more |