All Views Articles for 2013-03-29
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Glenn Greenwald Domestic Drones and Their Unique Dangers Dismissive claims that drones do nothing more than helicopters and satellites already do are wildly misinformed Read more |
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Bryce Covert This Is What Happens When You Rip a Hole in the Safety Net America’s social safety net, such as it is, has recently come under some scrutiny. Chana Joffe-Walt’s in-depth exploration of the increase in people getting Social Security Disability benefits at NPR... Read more |
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The Nation Wayne LaPierre Is Winning The December 14, 2012, massacre of twenty children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School seemed like one of those rare moments when the sheer monstrosity of a preventable tragedy breaks... Read more |
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Frances Beinecke After Shell Fiasco, It's Clear: No One Should Drill in the Arctic Shell Oil announced it will suspend its Arctic Ocean drilling program until at least 2014. But it turns out that after you ground a drilling rig, leak oil into the water, and crush your emergency... Read more |
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Jeff Conant Why the World Bank Must End Its Support for Palm Oil in Honduras In a recent press release issued by Friends of the Earth International, we asked for cancellation of a World Bank loan to Honduran palm oil producer Grupo Dinant. Here's why: Read more |
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Donna Smith Good Friday Health Care Options: Go Bare or Go Broke? In America, we take our pound of flesh and our profits wherever we may find them. In our U.S. health care system, the opportunities to profit are plentiful no matter the pain, illness, worry or other... Read more |
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David Roberts $3.5 Trillion? The Insanely High Costs of Subsidizing the Fossil Fuel Industry IMF says global subsidies to fossil fuels amount to $1.9 trillion a year … and that’s probably an underestimate Read more |
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James Gustave Speth, Joe Uehlein Labor and Environmental Leaders Move Beyond Differences to a Common Vision Our nation can realize a future that is equitable and ecologically balanced, but to do so we must build a movement supported by a broad base of citizens committed to transformative change. We will work together towards these ends. Read more |
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Nancy Cohen North Dakota Anti-Abortion Activists Attempt to Re-open Roe v Wade Debate America has no 'culture war' about legal abortion rights: only an extreme minority wants to replay the issue in the supreme court Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Ending Violence in a Decade “The status quo in Chicago is no longer tolerable,” Andy Willis said, summoning the violent headlines of the past year and the past week. Read more |
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Joe Brewer Strategic Framing of the Red “Equality” Square This week the Supreme Court is considering a case about the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and legal protections granted to same-sex couples in states where gay marriage is... Read more |
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William E. Connolly A Dynamic Left and the Dilemma of Electoral Politics The dangers posed by climate change and potential shifts in the ocean conveyor system; the extensive suffering generated by the heightening of economic inequality; the need to restructure the state... Read more |