All Views Articles for 2013-05-21
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Sharon Stapel America has a Fundamental Problem with People Who Hate Gay People A recent hate crime in New York City highlights the culture of hate that we have to change to protect people from violence Read more |
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Mattea Kramer, Jo Comerford How America Became a Third World Country (2013-2023) The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and... Read more |
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Lori Wallach A 'Legislative Laxative': On Fast-Tracking, Democracy, and Free Trade What do a zombie, handcuffs, a steamroller and a legislative luge run for job-killing trade agreements all have in common? They're all apt metaphors of an expired, scandalously anti-democratic... Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Afghan Voices Tell the Tales of Human Lives Cut Short by US War KABUL—Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the “ The Afghan Atrocities Update ” which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians... Read more |
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Cindy Cohn, Trevor Timm 5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy and Other Leak Investigations The journalism world has been rightly outraged by the Justice Department dragging the Associated Press (and now a Fox News reporter ) into one of its sprawling leak investigations. Read more |
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Murtaza Hussain An Increasingly Unchecked Surveillance State The US government extensively monitors its citizens' internet activities, with dangerous effects on personal liberties. Read more |
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Husain Abdulla In Bahrain, An Uprising Unabated More than two years after peaceful demonstrators took to the streets to demand reforms, Bahrain’s uprising has not abated. Activists and opposition groups continue to demand the basic human rights... Read more |
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Seth Freed Wessler Homeowners to Eric Holder: Hold Banks Accountable Homeowners and former homeowners rallied in front of the Department of Justice Monday to demand the Attorney General Eric Holder hold banks accountable for foreclosures. The groups are asking the... Read more |
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Dave Johnson The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives Remember the video of the guy in the “pimp costume” who got advice from ACORN employees on how to run his prostitution ring? Turns out the whole story was just a lie, a doctored-video smear job on an... Read more |
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Matthew Rothschild Think the IRS Was Bad? Try the Spying on Occupy Activists With all the hullabaloo over the IRS’s special scrutiny of Tea Party groups, a far worse case of political meddling and governmental overreach has been going on: The spying on leftwing activists in... Read more |
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Judith Schwartz For Climate Solution, Look to the Ground Soil, that humble brown stuff we call dirt, is part of the answer to saving our future Read more |