All Views Articles for 2013-05-31
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Robert Reich Economic Storm Clouds Ahead Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good. But the recent jubilance is enough to make even weather forecasters blush. “Just look at the bull market! Look at home prices! Look at... Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis Syria War Moving Outward, Obama Looks Inward The civil war in Syria is already expanding beyond the borders, with regional and potentially global consequences. Read more |
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Alex Mensing Mexico Protests Monsanto with a Carnival of Corn On May 25, an estimated two million people across 50 countries participated in the global March Against Monsanto . Read more |
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Ralph Nader To Kerry: Get Israeli Peace Leaders Before Congress The new Secretary of State John Kerry taking four trips to the Israeli/Palestinian region in the past two months means yet another U.S. effort for a negotiated peace process between the Palestinians... Read more |
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Patrick C. Toomey If the Government Is Tracking Your Location or Reading Your Email, Would You Ever Know? Court rulings unsealed last week in Washington show for the first time a behind-the-scenes legal battle over when the government should have to tell you that it's tracking your location and reading... Read more |
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Greg Kaufmann Taking on Sallie Mae and the Cost of Education Nearly two hundred students, parents, community members and union leaders rallied at Sallie Mae’s annual shareholders meeting in Newark, Delaware yesterday. On the agenda: first, demand that the... Read more |
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Valerie Strauss Jeb Bush’s Disdain for Public Education It’s always useful to know where people are coming from, so we can thank former Florida governor Jeb Bush for making it so easy to understand where he stands on public education. He has nothing but... Read more |
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Laurie Penny 'Check Your Privilege' and Other Terms the Uber Privileged Don't Like No wonder Mensch finds privilege-checking uncomfortable – the Tory conception of 'reality' has never been inclusive Read more |
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Alice Walker Don't Reward Apartheid by Performing in Israel: An Open Letter to Alicia Keys Dear Alicia Keys, Read more |
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Dave Johnson The June Fight Over Student Loans Today President Obama is joining college students at a White House event launching a new push to keep student loan rates from doubling in July. Among the various plans offered, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’... Read more |
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Matthew Rothschild The FBI’s Fishy Story on Killing Tsarnaev’s Friend This story always smelled a little fishy to me. I’m talking about the FBI’s killing of Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen down in Florida who was a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. When he was fatally shot by... Read more |
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Dean Baker The United States Already Has Cuddly Capitalism (The Wrong Kind) Thomas Edsall devoted his blogpost yesterday to a paper by Daron Acemoglu claiming that the United States can't follow a path like Sweden and have "cuddly capitalism." By this Acemoglu is referring... Read more |
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Paul Nyden Judge Gives Patriot Coal OK to Cut Benefits CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A federal bankruptcy judge in St. Read more |
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Amy Goodman President Obama Uses a Sledgehammer Against Dissent From Jeremy Hammond to Bradley Manning and the AP, Obama's 'assault on journalism' is a threat to our democracy Read more |