All Views Articles for 2013-03-11
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Robert Kuttner The Grand Bargain We Don't Need President Obama has been meeting with small groups of Republican senators and representatives in an effort to reduce the damage of the so-called sequester -- the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts... Read more |
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Karl Grossman We Must Make the Whole Planet a 'Nuclear Free Zone' With the second anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster this week, with North Korea having just threatened a “pre-emptive nuclear attack” against the United States and a U.S. senator... Read more |
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Vandana Shiva Tilling the Soil with Pesticides The ministry of agriculture had organised a conference on Doubling Food Production from February 1-3. The “eminent speakers” invited were not members of International Assessment of Agricultural... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The NYT and Obama Officials Collaborate to Prosecute Awlaki After He's Executed A joint media-government attempt to justify the assassination of a US citizen ends up doing the opposite Read more |
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Allison Kilkenny The Global Austerity Resistance Continues Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Spain and Greece this week in response to ongoing budget cuts and high unemployment. Read more |
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Junichi Sato Hope from Fukushima As we mark the second memorial of the March 11, 2011 triple disaster, we see tragedy, but also hope in Japan. While people mourn for the mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents and children that... Read more |
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Ellen Frank True Aim of Deficit Scare-Mongering: To Gut Social Security and Medicare onservatives’ real aim in their fiscal brinkmanship is to gut Social Security and Medicare. Read more |
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Harvey Wasserman Fukushima's Fallout Is Already Harming Our Children Thyroid abnormalities have now been confirmed among tens of thousands of children downwind from Fukushima. They are the first clear sign of an unfolding radioactive tragedy that demands this industry... Read more |
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Juan Cole Karzai Accuses Taliban of Serving US Interests, Slams (Non-Existent) US-Taliban Talks Once again, the erratic president of Afghanistan, had US officials shaking their heads in disbelief after he gave a speech while Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is in Kabul in which he blamed the... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Crucifixion of Tomas Young KANSAS CITY, Mo.—I flew to Kansas City last week to see Tomas Young. Young was paralyzed in Iraq in 2004. He is now receiving hospice care at his home. I knew him by reputation and the movie... Read more |
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Danny Postel Hugo Chávez and the Middle East: Which Side Was He On? Most of the postmortem commentary on Hugo Chávez has focused on his domestic legacy in Venezuela, his wider regional legacy within Latin America, and what we might call his hemispheric legacy—his “... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Five Poisons of Privatization It gets more maddening every day. Essential human needs are being packaged into products to be bought and sold. The right to food and water, education, health care, public spaces, and unrestricted... Read more |