All Views Articles for 2013-04-24

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Brian Sturgis
We Are Chicago Students, and We are Here to Save Our Schools!
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Mijin Cha
A Recession for the 93 Percent, Good Times for the 7 Percent
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Stuart Hall
The Kilburn Manifesto: Our Challenge to the Neoliberal Victory
Elites are using the crisis of global capital to reassert power. But this is no time for retreat. Our manifesto outlines the alternative
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Jill Richardson
The High Price of Our Fertilizer Addiction
Compared to the lifetime of grieving ahead for the people of West, Texas, a few years of reduced crop yields is a small price to pay for converting from "conventional" to organic farming.
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Vandana Shiva
Tackling "Monoculture of the Mind"
Billionaires forgo iron-rich crops in push for GM bananas in India
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Glenn Greenwald
The Same Motive for Anti-US 'Terrorism' Is Cited Over and Over
Ignoring the role played by US actions is dangerously self-flattering and self-delusional
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Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Heather Buckner
Confront Corporate Personhood: Take Back our Planet
With the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day this week, we have to wonder why the health of the planet is at an all time low.
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Jim Hightower
'Factory Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals
Gagging on 'Ag-gag' laws
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Kristin Moe
Houston’s Most Polluted Neighborhood Draws the Line at Alberta Tar Sands
If the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, 90 percent of the tar sands crude that flows through it will be processed near an embattled Houston neighborhood called Manchester. Residents are joining up to demand a healthier future.
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Brendan Fischer
Having Spent Millions Influencing Three Branches of Government, Kochs Look to Buy Fourth Estate
The billionaire industrialist Koch brothers have spent tens of millions for decades on a long-term plan to reshape the legislative, executive, and judicial branches according to a corporate-friendly...
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Kevin Gosztola
Former AFRICOM Chief at Senate Hearing: Using Word ‘Drone’ Fuels Al Qaeda Propaganda
A Senate subcommittee held a much-anticipated hearing on drones and the United States government’s “targeted killing” policies this afternoon. One of the witnesses called to testify was retired US...
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Matthew Rothschild
The Barbaric Lust to Execute Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
A few points on the prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. I’m glad the Obama administration is not treating him as an enemy combatant and is not trying him before a military commission or sending him...
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Dave Dvorak, MD
Beyond Obamacare: How a Single-Payer System Can Save US Health Care
As Minnesota’s physicians, health care leaders and legislators grapple with the complex changes brought by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many are concerned that even after the law is fully...
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Norman Solomon
'Terrorism' and the Perpetual Emotion War Machine
As a perpetual emotion machine -- producing and guzzling its own political fuel -- the “war on terror” continues to normalize itself as a thoroughly American way of life and death. Ongoing warfare...
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