All Views Articles for 2013-05-28
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Robert Scheer Congress Still Puts Out for Wall Street What does it take to make a Wall Street banker squirm with shame? Not content with having swindled tens of millions of Americans out of their homes and life savings, the very bankers who caused the... Read more |
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Peter Hart Did Obama's Speech Really 'Narrow' the War? If you followed the coverage of President Barack Obama's May 23 speech at the National Defense University, you would think something big happened to the "war on terror." Specifically, its scope was... Read more |
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Dana Nuccitelli 97% Global Warming Consensus Meets Resistance from Scientific Denialism The robust climate consensus faces resistance from conspiracy theories, cherry picking, and misrepresentations Read more |
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Linda Christensen Burning Tulsa: The Legacy of Black Dispossession None of my mostly African American 11th graders in Portland had ever heard of the so-called Tulsa Race Riot, even though it stands as one of the most violent episodes of dispossession in U.S. history. Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Why America Needs An Education Spring Well, someone in the mainstream media finally had to ask the question. Read more |
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Christopher Dietrich Add Morality to List of Drone Victims The awkward balance that President Barack Obama tried to strike between morality, law, and national security with Thursday’s drone speec h reveals the major flaw in our era’s opaque “war on terror.”... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Health Care’s Forgotten Crisis: Families Can’t Afford Medical Care The real healthcare battle in this country isn’t the one being fought over the bill everyone now calls “Obamacare.” In fact, it’s not a battle between Republicans and Democrats at all. The real... Read more |
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Moira Herbst The Bank Bailout Cost US Taxpayers Nothing? Think Again Don't buy the line that the 2008 bailout gamble paid off. The banks have politicians and taxpayers firmly in their pockets Read more |
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Wendell Potter Help Health Care Advocate Donna Smith Get the Care She Needs—And Pay the $855 Aetna Is Demanding CD editors' note: Our friend Donna Smith, featured in this article, has been a tireless advocate for health care reform since before she first became a frequent contributor to our site in 2008. We... Read more |
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Robert Reich Beware Capitalist Tools Forbes Magazine likes to call itself a “capitalist tool,” and routinely offers tool-like justifications for whatever it is that profit-seeking corporations want to do. Recently it has deployed its... Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich Naming Our Nameless War: How Many Years Will It Be? For well over a decade now the United States has been “a nation at war.” Does that war have a name? Read more |
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Kathy Kelly 'Resist These Dark Times': Advice from an Afghan Mother and Activist When she was 24 years old, in 1979, Fahima Vorgetts left Afghanistan. By reputation, she had been outspoken, even rebellious, in her opposition to injustice and oppression; and family and friends,... Read more |
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John Atcheson In Memoriam: Putting American Democracy on Sale Well, another Memorial Day has come and gone. Another day when we were supposed to remember those who gave their lives to preserve our democracy by working ourselves into a shopping frenzy to get... Read more |
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Rachel Smolker, Almuth Ernsting Climate Crisis: Radical Action or a New Battlefront in the War on Nature? Climate change is happening, but geoengineering schemes are not the solutions we need Read more |