All Views Articles for 2013-04-02
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Richard Eskow As Europe Gets Sicker, Its Austerity Poison Is Still Our Prescription How much sicker does the patient have to get before the doctors stop prescribing poison? Here are some of the news stories out of Europe: Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Lack of Paid Sick Leave Is Unhealthy for America Ian Rizzio was a 24-year-old mechanical engineering student in Portland, Oregon, managing a sandwich shop to pay his tuition. One day, he woke up sick, but went to work anyway, as he later testified... Read more |
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Eugene Robinson The Standardized Test Racket It is time to acknowledge that the fashionable theory of school reform — requiring that pay and job security for teachers, principals and administrators depend on their students’ standardized test... Read more |
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William Pfaff Chris Hedges Resigns From Human Rights Organization PEN The Truthdig columnist was scheduled to speak at events sponsored by PEN American Center next month, but he has resigned his membership in the writers’ organization over its executive director,... Read more |
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Dilip Hiro The Great Afghan Corruption Scam How Operation Enduring Freedom Mutated into Operation Enduring Corruption Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Challenges of Arab Uprisings Reflected at World Social Forum “This was like a dream come true,” said a radiant Sossi Mohamed Sadek, a Tunisian second year engineering student who was one of the hundreds of local volunteers at the World Social Forum in Tunis. “... Read more |
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Tory Field, Beverly Bell From Growing Profit to Growing Food: Challenging Corporate Rule Just outside of the small town of Maumelle, Arkansas sits your run-of-the-mill American strip mall. And as in so many other box store hubs, a Walmart dominates the landscape. Read more |
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Greg Nojeim Secretive Cyber Intelligance Bill Needs Major Surgery – In a Public Operating Room The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act ( CISPA , or H.R. 624) has a number of fundamental flaws that threaten civil liberties. The bill is intended to give companies in the private sector... Read more |
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George Monbiot Communism, Welfare State – What's the Next Big Idea? Any attempt to challenge the elite needs courage, inspiration and a truly groundbreaking proposal. Here are two to set us off Read more |
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Cole Harrison America after Hegemony With the Iraq war fading into memory even as the country still simmers, the U.S. peace movement faces the need to reframe its message. Read more |
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John Atcheson Capitalism as Psychosis (or No One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) Can a society become psychotic? Certainly a quick look at our national political dialogue would suggest that’s precisely what’s happening. Let’s start with what passes for rational discussion on the... Read more |