All Views Articles for 2013-03-13
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Michael Moore America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA) The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with a white woman in town, and for that he was... Read more |
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Michael Ratner Shrinking Fronts on Our Global Battlefield Last week, the dramatic filibuster delaying John Brennan’s confirmation as our new CIA director begged for an answer to one question: “does the President have authority to order a targeted killing by... Read more |
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George Lakey I Pledge Allegiance... To Resist the Pipeline One of the hardest things in the world is, if I may borrow a biblical phrase, to read the signs of the times. Read more |
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Sadhbh Walshe Stop Allowing the Wealthy to Treat Undocumented Immigrants Like Slaves Another wealthy New Yorker is on trial for abusing her maid, a reminder that domestic workers have few rights Read more |
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Bertha Lewis James O'Keefe Pays Out to Just One Victim of His ACORN Video Deception In this season of redemption, I am reminded of a saying my grandmother had for those who were deceitful, who lied or committed bad acts. Anytime we heard a story of something someone had done to harm... Read more |
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David Suzuki Healthy Kids Need Time in Nature Ontario’s Healthy Kids Panel recently proposed a strategy to help kids get onto a path to health. The problem is that the path doesn’t lead them into nature. Read more |
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Dean Baker What Ryan's Budget Really Says: 'I Love Rich People' It's not just that he wants to change the 'relationship between Americans and their government' Read more |
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Bryce Covert What Paul Ryan’s Budget Means for Women Read more |
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Daniel Ellsberg A Salute to Bradley Manning, Whistleblower, As We Hear His Words for the First Time 'We both felt the horror of reading about deceptive, and even criminal, activity. We both felt the public needed this information and should have had it years ago.' Read more |
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Jim Hightower 'The Dow' vs. 'The Doug': On Getting Kicked While Richest Get Richer "It's a sign," exclaims a February Associated Press story — a sign that our economy is "healing." "It signals that things are getting back to normal," added a delighted market analyst. And a March 4... Read more |
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Rev. John Dear Norway Calls the World to Ban Nuclear Weapons Last week, an extraordinary, historic event occurred. The government of Norway invited all the nations of the world to a two day conference to discuss the humanitarian effects of nuclear war and to... Read more |
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Kumi Naidoo A Necessary Extinction LONDON - When the environment changes, smart creatures adapt. And, in the face of a changing climate and changing economics, smart people are backing green energy. In 2011 almost a third of new... Read more |
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Vijay Prashad The Myth of Large Numbers The United States often uses exaggerated civilian casualty numbers to make a case for military intervention in strife-torn regions Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Our 'Government of Laws' Is Now Above the Law “The government of the United States,” wrote Chief Justice John Marshall in his famous decision in Marbury v. Madison, “has been emphatically termed a government of laws , and not of men.” This... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Which Members of Congress Are Standing Up for Economic Decency – And Which “Progressives” Aren’t Now we know. Every member of Congress has chosen whether to sign a letter making a crucial commitment: “ We will vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits --... Read more |