All Views Articles for 2013-06-19
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Edward Williams America: More Diverse Yet Less Equal? A decline in white births comes at a time when two key civil rights programs may be dismantled Read more |
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Winona LaDuke When Drones Guard the Pipeline – Militarizing Fossil Fuels in the East Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist. Read more |
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Caroline Arnold What Should We Do - as a Nation - with Bradley Manning & Edward Snowden? Hire them. They have – at great personal risk – revealed what we citizens have remained ignorant of: the reach of information technology, intelligence-gathering and database management in the 21st... Read more |
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Gwynne Dyer Poison Gas and Red Lines Fool me once, shame on you. (The Taliban regime in Afghanistan helped al-Qaeda to plan 9/11. We must invade.) Fool me twice, shame on me. (Saddam Hussein is building weapons of mass destruction in... Read more |
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Tom Turnipseed Homeless Plan Has Good Ideas — And Scary Ones Homelessness is finally catching the attention of the media, everyday people and even politicians in the Midlands of South Carolina. We’ve heard much about compassion, humanity, respect and some... Read more |
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Anna Lekas Miller If Your Name is Ahmed or Fatima, You Live in Fear of NSA Surveillance One of the most common responses from the 66% of American citizens in favor of the NSA 's data-collection programs is, "I have nothing to hide, so why should I have anything to fear?" Read more |
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Greg Kaufmann What Congress and the Media are Missing in the Food Stamp Debate To follow the congressional debate about food stamp (SNAP) funding in the Farm Bill—and media coverage of that debate—you would think that the relevant issues are the deficit, rapists on food stamps... Read more |
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Jim Hightower Repeal the Patriot Act It's back. The Patriot Act — that grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors — has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Fisa Court Oversight: A Look Inside a Secret and Empty Process Obama and other NSA defenders insist there are robust limitations on surveillance but the documents show otherwise Read more |
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Jeff Cohen Trust me: Political Spying + Computers = Big Brother I know the issue of political spying – and not just because my lawful, nonviolent activism got me spied on by local, state and federal “intelligence” agencies (whose spy files on me were unearthed... Read more |
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Shamus Cooke Syria Is Becoming Obama's Iraq In perfect Bush-like fashion, President Obama has invented a bogus pretense for military intervention in yet another Middle East country. The president's claim that the Syrian government has used... Read more |