All Views Articles for 2013-03-28
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Ralph Nader How Big Corporations Are Unpatriotic Many giant profitable U.S. corporations are increasingly abandoning America while draining it at the same time. Read more |
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Amy Goodman Edie Windsor’s Day in Court The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about same-sex marriage this week. On Tuesday, it was about the controversial California ballot initiative known as Prop 8, which has banned same-sex marriages... Read more |
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Donna Smith Gun Violence, Health Care and the Destruction of American Lives Why are we forced to watch this entrenched pain and suffering? Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Fun-Filled Ocean Resort at Guantánamo Bay A growing hunger strike among detainees is mocked by gullible journalists spouting familiar Potemkin Village propaganda Read more |
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Ana Marie Cox The Supreme Court's Problem: How to Back America Out of Anti-Gay Bigotry Opponents of same-sex marriage don't like civil rights analogies. Tough luck: Doma is unconstitutional because it's unjust Read more |
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Laura Flanders Take the Oath: A Critic of Marriage Gets Teary It’s inevitable. I’m thinking about marriage. Not only because of what’s been happening down in Washington, where the Supreme Court’s been hearing arguments on two marriage related cases. I’m... Read more |
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Ellen Brown Think Cyprus Confiscation Scheme Can't Happen Here? Think Again Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. Read more |
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Ruth Conniff Bernie Sanders Takes on 'Too Big To Jail' Senator Bernie Sanders challenged Attorney General Eric Holder in a speech on the Senate floor this week . Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Anniversaries from Hell and the Celebration of American Cowardice What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You Read more |
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Gary Younge Arrests at Chicago Schools Protest More than 100 people arrested while taking part in mass civil disobedience against Rahm Emmanuel's cuts and closures Read more |
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Norman Solomon Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet If your daily routine took you from one homegrown organic garden to another, bypassing vast fields choked with pesticides, you might feel pretty good about the current state of agriculture. Read more |
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Nick Turse Tell It to the Dead: American Promises Buried in Iraq In the lead-up to the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush made a promise. “The Iraqi people can be certain of this,” he said. “The United States is committed to helping them build a better future... Read more |
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Craig Aaron Why the New Boss at the FCC Should Be Nothing Like the Old Boss In announcing his departure as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski said: "The last four years have demonstrated that the country needs an effective FCC." Read more |