All Views Articles for 2013-04-16
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Ruth Conniff Why Does It Matter If Boston Bombing Is "Terrorism"? In his brief statement today, President Obama said both that the FBI is investigating the Boston Marathon bombing as an act of terrorism and that "we don't know who did it or why," adding that it's... Read more |
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Charles P. Pierce The Other Face Of Political Violence Likely lost amid all lachrymose coverage of the act of political violence in Boston yesterday will be the release of a magisterial, non-partisan report concerning the decade of political violence... Read more |
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Rinku Sen How We Can Break the Cycle of Pain From Mass Violence I’m not a religious person, but I often turn to a Rainer Maria Rilke poem about God, which has these lines: Read more |
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Erin Niemela We are Better Than This Americans will remember Monday, April 15, 2013 as a day in which unspeakable violence took the lives of three people and wounded at least 153 after bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon finish line... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald The Boston Bombing Produces Familiar and Revealing Reactions As usual, the limits of selective empathy, the rush to blame Muslims, and the exploitation of fear all instantly emerge Read more |
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Robert Parry No Rush to Judgment in Boston The U.S. Read more |
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Juan Cole Can the Boston Bombings Increase our Sympathy for Iraq and Syria, for All Such Victims? Read more |
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Matthew Rothschild Let’s Be Cautious in Wake of Boston Marathon Bombings What a tragedy that at least two people have been killed by two bombs at the end of the Boston Marathon, which also wounded dozens of people. But before we leap to conclusions about who did these... Read more |
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Dave Zirin The Boston Marathon: All My Tears, All My Love “If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.” – Kathrine Switzer Read more |