All Views Articles for 2013-03-18

Monday, March 18, 2013
Glenn Greenwald
David Frum, the Iraq War and oil
The former Bush speechwriter confirms what has long been the most ridiculed claim about a key reason the US attacked Iraq
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Robert Kuttner
Social Security for the Next Generation? If You're Under 40, You Should Be in the Streets
I will start drawing Social Security next month. I think I've earned it. On the other hand, I have to admit that society has been good to my generation. I was able to graduate from a good private...
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Lucinda Marshall
The Catch 22 of Ending Sexual Violence in the US Military
At its root, the problem of sexual assault and harassment in the U.S.
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Bill Bigelow
Ten Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War
In 2006, with U.S. troops occupying Iraq, the great historian and humanitarian Howard Zinn expressed his desire for what the end of the war would bring: “My hope is that the memory of death and...
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Paul Buchheit
March Madness: The 5th Straight Year of Extreme Corporate Tax Avoidance
The brackets are set for the big dance -- the dance around tax responsibility. Most of the teams are in the bottom bracket. In this league, the lowest score wins.
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Greg Mitchell
At Tenth Anniversary of the Start of Iraq War: Sixteen Media Outrages That Followed
As we approach the tenth anniversary of the US attack on Iraq on Tuesday we may face more media coverage of that tragic conflict that we’ve seen in the past two or three years combined. How much of...
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John Brown
Iraq, 10 Years Later: Why Bush Did Wrong
Letter of Resignation by John H. Brown, Foreign Service officer (posted ten years ago on Common Dreams ): To: Secretary of State Colin Powell March 10, 2003 Dear Mr. Secretary:
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Chris Hedges
The Shame of America’s Gulag
If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” then we are a nation of barbarians. Our vast network of federal and state prisons, with...
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Norman Solomon
Ten Years Ago and Today: A Warfare State of Mind
On a plane circling Baghdad in gray dawn light, a little Iraqi girl quietly sang to herself in the next row. “When I start to wonder why I’m making this trip,” Sean Penn murmured to me, “I see that...
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