All Views Articles for 2013-04-08

Monday, April 8, 2013
Tory Field, Beverly Bell
Farmers and Consumers V. Monsanto: David Meet Goliath
Bordering an interstate highway in Arkansas, a giant billboard with a photo of a stoic-looking farmer watches over the speeding traffic.
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Glenn Greenwald
Margaret Thatcher and Misapplied Death Etiquette
The dictate that one 'not speak ill of the dead' is (at best) appropriate for private individuals, not influential public figures
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César Chelala
How Much Longer Will the Iran "Game" Continue?
The last failure of talks between Iran and the six world powers represented by Catherine Ashton, who held negotiations on behalf of the P5+1 powers –the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain...
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Jill Richardson
A Recipe for a Sounder Diet
There are ways to make healthy food affordable that don't require abusing farmworkers.
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Chris Hedges
The Hijacking of Human Rights
The appointment of Suzanne Nossel, a former State Department official and longtime government apparatchik, as executive director of PEN American Center is part of a campaign to turn U.S. human rights...
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Bill McKibben
Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the “Stonewall” of the Climate Movement?
And If So, Is That Terrible News?
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Paul Buchheit
The Corporate Betrayal of America
Multinational corporations have built their businesses on the backs of American taxpayers. They've depended on government research, national defense, the legal and educational systems, and our...
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Frida Berrigan
Coming Out as an Activist
I trudged down the side of the road carrying a small sign: “I am waiting for YOU to shut down Guantanamo.” We were marching toward the Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn., on Good Friday.
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Richard Eskow
Obama’s Social Security Cuts Are Our Wake-Up Call
No jobs. No growth. Falling income. Unaffordable colleges. A dying middle class. Young people without hope. The greatest economic inequality in modern history.
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