All Views Articles for 2013-04-05
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Digby It’s Official: A Democratic President Proposes to Cut Social Security Mark this day. For the first time in history , a Democratic president has officially proposed to cut the Democratic Party’s signature New Deal program, Social Security: Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Soft, Weak Chinese Cite Concerns for International Law and Due Process Beijing considers but rejects drone-killing an elusive foreign killer hiding in the jungle claiming sovereignty issues and the need for a trial Read more |
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Robert Naiman #ChainedCPI? For Every Social Security Judas, a Primary Challenge The moment of truth has arrived. According to press reports, President Obama has openly embraced cutting Social Security and veterans benefits by imposing the "chained CPI" cut on cost of living... Read more |
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Amy Rothschild Our Battle Cry Outside Obama's Dept. of Education Through Sunday this week, education activists, including Diane Ravitch, will “occupy” the Department of Education. Read more |
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Greg Kaufmann Who Will Give a Damn? On Sequestration, Housing, and Homelessness Sequestration can seem a little vague, abstract, difficult to wrap your head around. But here’s what it means when it comes to housing: up to 140,000 fewer low-income families receiving housing... Read more |
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Peter Rugh NYC Fast-Food Workers Fight Back Against Super-Sized Corporations Tianna Smalls had planned on working Thursday, but her colleagues convinced her otherwise. “‘You’re either with us, or you’re for Wendy’s,’” Smalls remembers her co-workers telling her. Her mother... Read more |
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John Nichols, Robert McChesney Will Obama Defend Media Democracy? In a communications landscape where everything is up for grabs, the most powerful—and self-serving—players are grabbing for everything. And decisions that President Obama and his next appointee to... Read more |
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Steve Rendall Keeping the Government's Secrets Official/press collusion to keep public uninformed Read more |
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Michelle Chen A New Door for Guestworkers? Read more |
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Ana Marie Cox Will Gay Marriage Split the Republican Party? The GOP shuns Senator Mark Kirk for supporting gay marriage, but embraces Mark Sanford, who cheated on his wife Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler A Future Stuck in the Pipeline Are the bad ideas dead yet? You know, the ones that have been hollowing out the country’s soul for the last 30 years. Read more |
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Phil Rockstroh Tyranny of the Reasonable: Popular Complacency in an Era of Economic Exploitation and Perpetual War Throughout the course of human affairs, scheming elitists -- let's call them the Plundering Class -- have devoted their days conceiving strategies and executing agendas that serve to enrich the... Read more |