All Views Articles for 2013-04-11

Thursday, April 11, 2013
Ralph Nader
Two Obamas, Two Classes of Children
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Mattea Kramer
A Tax Day Plan for Righting the Republic
Just Doing What’s Popular Would Make Us Healthier, Wealthier, Wiser, and Less Indebted
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Russell Mokhiber
Avoiding Corporate Crime
There’s some extra space in the AP Stylebook now that its editors have eliminated the term “illegal immigrant.” I propose that AP replace it with “corporate crime.” There’s little question that...
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Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
Dr. King’s “Two Americas” Truer Now than Ever
You may think you know about Martin Luther King, Jr., but there is much about the man and his message we have conveniently forgotten. He was a prophet, like Amos, Isaiah and Jeremiah of old, calling...
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Jamie Henn
Just a Few Reasons Why a Democratic Senate Hopeful is Backpedaling on Tar Sands
A year ago, Rep. Stephen Lynch was an ardent supporter for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Now, he just seems confused.
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Nathan Freed Wessler
New Documents Suggest IRS Reads Emails Without a Warrant
Everyone knows the IRS is our nation’s tax collector, but it is also a law enforcement organization tasked with investigating criminal violations of the tax laws.
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Jeff Faux
Where's the Change?
Democrats keep telling their growing coalition to wait and the economic policies they've been hoping for will come. Unfortunately, the Obama administration's agenda can't back up that promise.
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Robert Parry
The Madness of NYT’s Tom Friedman
When ranking which multi-millionaire American pundit is the most overrated, there are, without doubt, many worthy contenders, but one near the top of any list must be the New York Times’ Thomas L...
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Robert C. Koehler
Drone World
In the not so distant future, America’s skies will be full of . . . drones. What could go wrong?
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Sadhbh Walshe
How America's Fast Food Industry Makes a Quick Buck
The gulf between CEO pay and staff McWages is shockingly wide: a strike serves this system of super-exploitation right
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Richard Eskow
GOP’s Not-So-Shocking “Shocking Attack” On Obama’s Chained-CPI Cuts
That was fast. On Tuesday we suggested that the chained-CPI cut in President Obama’s budget, which was presented as a gesture to Republicans, might instead be used to rebrand Democrats as ‘the anti-...
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Amy Goodman
WikiLeaks’ New Release: The Kissinger Cables and Bradley Manning
WikiLeaks has released a new trove of documents, more than 1.7 million U.S. State Department cables dating from 1973-1976, which they have dubbed “The Kissinger Cables,” after Henry Kissinger, who in...
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