All Views Articles for 2013-04-22
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Anthony D. Romero The Constitution Applies to All Americans, No Matter What They Are Accused Of Our country has been shaken by the events coming out of Boston in the past week. First, of course, there was the tragedy and loss of life and injuries from the Marathon bombing, and the fear of not... Read more |
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Winona LaDuke Let's Be on Mother Earth's Side This Earth Day, let’s quit being extremists. That’s what the U.S. economy relies on right now, and that’s how the huge mineral and fossil fuel companies are making their money: extremism. When they... Read more |
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Melanie Jae Martin Released Tim DeChristopher Finds a Movement Transformed by His Courage A climate justice activist's cause for celebration Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Why is Boston 'Terrorism' But Not Aurora, Sandy Hook, Tucson and Columbine? Can an act of violence be called 'terrorism' if the motive is unknown? Read more |
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Allison Kilkenny Global Elites May Finally Realize Austerity Isn't The Answer In the past week, political officials and economic experts in several countries have indicated they believe austerity is not, and indeed never has been, the answer to pulling the world's economies... Read more |
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Laura Flanders This Earth Day Stop The Appalachian Health Crisis Caused by Mountain Top Removal A year ago this week, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) and Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) hosted four leading scientists for Senate and House briefings on the environmental and health... Read more |
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Sandra Steingraber From Jail on Earth Day The following was letter was written from the Chemung County Jail in Elmira, New York where Steingraber is serving a fifteen day sentence for blockading a gas compression rig last month owned by the... Read more |
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Gary Younge Atrocities Such as the Boston Bombing Are Hard to Tackle, But Gun Crime Isn't The greatest threat to US citizens is not one-off terror attacks, but the menace that comes with mass gun-ownership Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Real Faces of the Minimum Wage Corporate interests and their elected representatives have created a world of illusion in order to resist paying a decent wage to working Americans. They’d have us believe that minimum-wage workers... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Persecution of Lynne Stewart Lynne Stewart, in the vindictive and hysterical world of the war on terror, is one of its martyrs. A 73-year-old lawyer who spent her life defending the poor, the marginalized and the despised,... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit How Capitalism Is Dismembering America Too many Americans are unaware of the extreme disparities that have been caused by the unregulated profit incentive of capitalism. Our winner-take-all system is flailing away at once-healthy parts of... Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Entering a Resource-Shock World How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion Read more |