All Views Articles for 2013-04-17
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David Cole Responding to Terror The April 15 bombing of the finish line at the Boston Marathon has triggered—and will continue to trigger—a series of state responses. Read more |
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Berklee Lowrey-Evans Lessons from the Goldman Prize Winners Last night I attended my sixth Goldman Environmental Prize Ceremony, and I was once again refreshed and inspired. Inspired by the individual stories of sacrifice and determination. Inspired by the... Read more |
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Jim Hightower Saving Our Ravaged Planet... and Ourselves Earth Day cometh — the 43rd year of this national focus on the state of our globe. So, how is Earth doing? Should we be weeping ... or cheering? Both. Read more |
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Richard Eskow “Divide and Lose”: A Bad Democratic Strategy For Social Security If some pundits have their way, the new blueprint for the Democratic Party will pit generation against generation and ethnicity against ethnicity, fragmenting us into ever-smaller social groups... Read more |
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Jennifer Norris A Legacy of Rogues in Afghanistan Americans who left Zero Dark Thirty thinking that the dark stain of torture is behind us should be cautioned by the U.S. exit strategy in Afghanistan. Read more |
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Kurt Opsahl, Rainey Reitman CISPA Goes to The Floor for a Vote, Privacy Amendments Blocked Yesterday, the US House prepared for the debate on the privacy-invading "cybersecurity" bill called CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The rules committee hearing was the last... Read more |
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Seumas Milne It's Time To Bury Not Just Thatcher – But Thatcherism She didn't save Britain or turn the economy round. We need to break with her failed model to escape its baleful consequences Read more |
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Marcy Wheeler Even Bipartisan Conventional Wisdom Report Says It Was Torture The Constitution Project has released a major report on the government’s torture program. You can download the report here . Read more |
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Jeremiah Goulka Shell Shock Lite: On Almost Getting PTSD in Iraq I was one nightmare short of PTSD. It didn’t take much, that’s what surprised me. No battles. No dead bodies. I spent just three and a half weeks as a contractor in Iraq, when the war there was at... Read more |
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Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger Corporate Tax Dodgers: 10 Companies and Their Tax Loopholes As the budget battles in Washington continue, corporations have stepped into the fray with some of the most aggressive lobbying we’ve seen in years – calling for cuts to corporate tax rates, a... Read more |
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Bianca Jagger Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon The trampling of indigenous rights, military force used against protesters, impunity, megadams and environmental destruction. Is Brazil returning to the bad old days? Read more |
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Norman Solomon The Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink Read more |